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"Call it Zen and the Art of Farming or a Little Green Book, Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book 'is valuable...
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2005.
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This Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) proposal describes a cooperative program that focuses on providing permanent cover for wildlife while maintaining environmentally friendly wheat fallow farming over a larger area, and adding economic stability to producers within the region. This concept uses multiple federal and state programs to address a variety of resource concerns, while maintaining the agriculturally based viability of the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Before those lush fields of hay, corn, or other delicious produce can be planted with even so much as a seed, the tilling equipment comes into play. With this colorful, easy-to-follow guide, young readers will learn that tilling is far more than turning some dirt over in a field. Energetic and educational text teaches about this useful piece of farm equipment, including what it does, how it works, the different types of tilling, and when a farmer...
19) Leon's story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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The son of a North Carolina sharecropper recalls the hard times faced by his family and other African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century and the changes that the civil rights movement helped bring about.