Wild Farm Alliance

Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill Book

Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill offers a concise, visually dynamic overview of a legislation that literally shapes our food system, our bodies, and our future. The Farm Bill is perhaps the single most significant land use legislation enacted in the United States, yet many citizens remain fairly unaware of its power or scope. With subsidies ballooning toward $90 billion per year, the Farm Bill largely dictates who grows what crops, on what acreage, and under what conditions — all with major impacts on the country’s rural economies, health and nutrition, national security, and biodiversity. Most experts assert that we need nothing less than a revolutionary overhaul of our farm policy to set the country on a more sustainable trajectory.

Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature Book

Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature is a collection of more than 20 essays by such leading ecological and agrarian voices as Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, Laura Jackson, Fred Kirschenmann, Dave Foreman, and Gary Paul Nabhan. With grace and insight, these essays analyze and vividly depict the urgent and complex issues facing communities and cultures throughout the world: the need for heightened land stewardship in an era of diminishing natural resources, amidst a profound extinction crisis. The ideas and stories in Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature will change your perceptions about agriculture and conservation. From the shift away from corn-based factory feedlots toward grass pastured economy, to the value of native bees, fish, and predators in agricultural landscapes, to a vision for rewilding the North American continent, these carefully chosen pieces offer the scientific and philosophical underpinnings of the new movement known as conservation-based agriculture. Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature persuasively demonstrates that farm and ranch operations that coexist with the wild are necessary to sustain biodiversity and beauty on the landscape. But it is also a call for heightened protection of the wild, and a caution against “resourcism.” And not a moment to soon. Our ability to feed ourselves and sustain the natural legacy of the planet will be deeply intertwined with the food and farming systems of our present and future. is possible.