| Description |
335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; cm |
| Summary |
In telling her story of working the land, Atina Diffley reminds us of an ultimate truth: we live in relationships--with the earth, plants and animals, families and communities. A memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural as corporate politics, her book is a firsthand history of getting in at the "ground level" of organic farming. One of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest, the Diffley's Gardens of Eagan helped to usher in a new kind of green revolution in the heart of America's farmland, supplying a growing number of local food co-ops as well as its own roadside stand with fresh, locally grown food. This is a story of a world transformed--and reclaimed--one square acre at a time. After surviving punishing storms and the devastating loss of fifth-generation Diffley family land to suburban development, the Diffleys faced yet another daunting obstacle: the threat of eminent domain for a crude oil pipeline proposed by one of the largest privately owned companies in the world, notorious polluters Koch Industries. As Atina Diffley tells her tale, she gives readers everything from expert instruction in organic farming to an entrepreneur's manual on how to grow a business to a legal thriller about battling corporate arrogance to a love story about a single mother falling for a good, big-hearted man. |
| Subject |
Diffley, Atina.
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Women farmers -- United States -- Biography.
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Organic farming -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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| Added Title |
Organic farming works |
| ISBN |
9780816677719 hardcover alkaline paper $24.95 |
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0816677719 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780816677726 pb alkaline paper |
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0816677727 pb alkaline paper |
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