Deep Agroecology

Farms, Food, and Our Future

ISBN: 978-1-7923-0924-3
By: McFadden, Steven

ABOUT THE BOOK

I wrote Deep Agroecology to explain to a general audience what agroecology already is: clean, sustainable, and just farm and food systems. My intention is to embed the concepts and practices more purposefully in the public mind. By engaging the concept of deep, I emphasize a subtle dimension of agroecology, a realm of critical mystery. Another reason for writing has been to again make available to a wide audience – via the shared teachings of native North America – a reminder that inspiriting yourself and then caring actively for the earth and the sustenance we derive from it is a high, noble, and heroic calling. It’s especially gallant at this juncture of time and circumstance. In my conception, deep agroecology is our next natural, intelligent, and necessary evolutionary step. Deep agroecology arises from recognition that the way we farm the land will determine the destiny of life on earth. – Steven M.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Steven McFadden

Independent journalist Steven McFadden is the author of a dozen nonfiction books, including The Call of the Land: An Agrarian Primer for the 21st Century, Profiles in Wisdom, Legend of the Rainbow Warriors, Classical Considerations, and others. With Trauger Groh, he is coauthor of Farms of Tomorrow, and also Farms of Tomorrow Revisited. His Odyssey of the 8th Fire < 8thFire.net > is a true epic saga of North America. The book won first place in Indie Excellence Awards in the environmental category.