Reviews for The essential agrarian reader

The average rating for The essential agrarian reader based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-06-22 00:00:00 Dane Dicke Eating responsibly and with purpose has become increasingly important in the 20th and 21st centuries as monocrops, industrialized farms, and genetically modified food run our soil and health into the ground. This book springs off of Wendell Berry's "the Unsettling of America" in which authors of various disciplines and backgrounds attempt to extrapolate Berry's observations into what America's food industry will look like in the future. Most of the articles contained in this book were well written; some were too clinical and statistic-heavy for my taste. All of them will be useful for the reader who wishes to educate themselves on our broken food industry and ways we can help fix it, or at least change our mindset. If I hadn't just read Berry's "Bringing it to the Table" (which this book simply rehashed, though I enjoyed Berry's writing MUCH more than all of the authors in this book), "Essential Agrarian Reader" may have carried more weight with me, but I think it's deserves four stars nonetheless.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-02-01 00:00:00 James Overaa Overall, this was a wonderful read. It was nice to read a little bit from so many prolific minds in agrarianism that I hadn't read before. Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, and of course, the great Wendell Berry. The book was well divided, yet, within the sections, I thought a couple of the essays/writings were a little irrelevant in that particular section, thus making it seem kind of like quirky fit in the context of that section. By reading this, I was able to read further into the economics and philosophy of agrarianism and that has helped me learn more about the theme and lifestyle to which I grant more appreciation and drive to dive into it myself. Overall a great read to immerse oneself in the different writing styles of many great authors and guides to agrarianism as a whole.