[Pollinator] Food, Farming and the Wild

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Food, Farming and the Wild 
News from the Wild Farm Alliance 
November 2006 
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Announcing the release of Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature: Essays in 
Conservation-Based Agriculture, edited by Dan Imhoff and Jo Ann Baumgartner
-- Authors
-- Book Introduction
-- Essay Preview: A Grassland Manifesto
Greetings!
Welcome to the Wild Farm Alliance (WFA) e-Newsletter, a publication advancing 
an agriculture that protects and restores wild Nature. We've been hard at 
work on our new essay collection and this issue gives a sneak preview of our 
efforts. The book is produced by WFA, published by Watershed Media, and 
distributed by University of California Press.

Authors 
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 Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, Laura Jackson, Fred 
Kirschenmann, Dave Foreman, Gary Paul Nabhan, Becky Weed and many others grace this 
book with their essays. 
Read on... 

Book Introduction 
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 We have collected, mulled over, and carefully considered these essays over a 
three-year period and chosen them to provide the scientific, philosophical, 
economic, and cultural underpinnings for an emerging movement, 
conservation-based agriculture. A number of the essays also influenced a previous book, 
Farming with the Wild, a project that inspired a continental journey in pursuit of 
two questions. How much wildnesss can a farm or ranching operation support and 
still remain economically viable? And how much agriculture can take place in 
an area and still support optimal levels of biodiversity? 
Read on... 

Essay Preview: A Grassland Manifesto 
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 Small lessons around the homeplace are one way to wander into wild farming. 
But if one wonders about the fate of the homeplace, the journey can’t end 
there. Either way, close or far, it’s all about grass. On a small scale, sheep 
ranching at home in Montana, we’ve watched coyotes watch us as we both mark 
territory. Mostly unwatched, mountain lions have harvested whitetail deer in the 
back fields and occasionally lambs in drought years. 
Read on... 

To Order This Book, Go to Our Website, or Give Us a Call. 
Read on... 


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