THE CALL
OF THE LAND
| An Agrarian Primer for the 21st Century |
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The Call of the Land
is a sourcebook exploring positive pathways for economic advancement, environmental repair, food security, good health, and cultural renewal.
While no single remedy meets the many challenges to our farms and food, hundreds of positive, creative options are already in place for families, neighborhoods, suburbs, cities, churches, and corporations.
The Call of the Land illuminates the paths forward, revealing a range of models to establish a sustainable agrarian foundation for the fragile high-tech, digital-wave culture emerging so dynamically in our world.
We have commenced a transition the likes of which few are prepared for, but to which we all can respond with intelligence.
Steven McFadden’s book offers concepts, philosophy, ethics, tools, models, network connections, and sheer inspiration for a broad range of agrarian possibilities to support our future. |
♦ NEW RELEASE ♦
Now is the time to establish a renewed agrarian foundation rooted in experience, adapted to the specific needs of our land, oriented to the future, and capable of integrating high-tech, sustainable practices.
This is the profound vision articulated in The Call of the Land.
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STEVEN MCFADDEN
A 1975 graduate of Boston University with a degree in journalism, Steven worked in newspapers and magazines for several years before turning his hand to writing books and teaching business writing. He founded Chiron Communications in the 1980s, but rested the enterprise in the 1990s while he served as National Coordinator for the annual Earth Day Celebration, and later as director of The Wisdom Conservancy at Merriam Hill Education Center in Greenville, New Hampshire.
8.25 x 8.25 paper, 128 pp.
ISBN 978-1-935254-11-9
Available Now!
$15.95
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About Steven McFadden...
A native of New England, Steven McFadden now makes his home in
Lincoln, Nebraska, where he serves as director of Chiron Communications, and continues his work as a writer, keynote speaker, counselor, and healer.
Steven is the author of seven other non-fiction books, including: Legend of the Rainbow Warriors; Profiles in Wisdom; The Little Book of Native American Wisdom; Teach Us To Number Our Days, and the epic, nonfiction saga of North America: Odyssey of the 8th Fire.
He is co-author of Farms of Tomorrow; and Farms of Tomorrow Revisited.
Steven has reported on the growth and development of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in America since its inception in 1986.
A Reiki Master of long standing, Steve has taught the Reiki healing techniques to hundreds of students across North and Central America. He helped John Harvey Gray and Lourdes Gray, Ph.D. write Hand to Hand:
The Longest Practicing Reiki Master Tells His Story.
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Praise for Steven McFadden’s books:
Resurgence Magazine on Farms of Tomorrow: “It is rare to come across any practical farming guide that sets out, from its inception, a set of principles that embrace social, spiritual and economic concerns on completely equal terms…The wisdom and clarity of philosophy are striking throughout.”
Whole Earth Review on Farms of Tomorrow: “This is the best book to access the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, including philosophical, spiritual, practical essays and how-to (including financial discussions). This is the source for tools, organizations, farms, and networks concerning the renewal of agriculture.”
New York Times Book Review: "Profiles in Wisdom does a fine job not only of presenting the dignity, complexity, and wit of important Indian philosophers and religious leaders, but also of issuing cautions against easy uplift and wisdom injections...There are some stirring and unexpected powers unleashed in this book."
Library Journal on Profiles in Wisdom: "This wise and provocative collection is highly recommended."
The Washington Times on Profiles in Wisdom: "Our leaders should sit and listen to the counsel Steven McFadden has gathered in this book."
8.25 x 8.25 paper, 128 pp.
ISBN 978-1-935254-11-9
Available Now!
$15.95
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The Call of the Land
Named Among
“Best Books of 2009”
Book Explores
America’s
Surging Agrarian Movement
“Food, farms, and
communities are involved in a blitzkrieg
of changes,” writes veteran journalist
Steven McFadden in
The Call of the
Land: An Agrarian Primer for the 21st
Century,
published in October by NorLightsPress.
Food Systems
Network NYC in January named
The Call of the
Land
one of nine “Best Books of 2009,” along
with Wendell Berry’s
Bringing It to the
Table.
The 10-person panel identified the most
significant films, books, and policy
developments related to food, nutrition,
public health, and community development
in 2009.
The Call of the
Land
gives voice to a growing chorus of
21st-century agrarians working to create
a secure, sustainable food system. This
chorus includes not just sustainable
farmers, gardeners, and farmers markets,
but also Slow Food, locavore, and
food-security activists in cities,
suburbs, rural areas, churches,
companies, and campuses throughout North
America.
The new book presents basic agrarian
theory and then offers readers dozens of
creative responses to the challenges
confronting our farms, our food, and our
communities. The volume documents a wide
range of working models that can be
emulated.
Among the positive solutions featured:
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Woodbury County,
Iowa aims to become the
organic capital of
the world
through the innovative Siouxland
Initiative.
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The Food Depot of
Santa Fe, New Mexico, encourages home
gardeners to
plant a row for
the hungry
and donate the produce to a food pantry.
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A Pasadena,
California family's
urban homestead
grows 6,000 pounds of food on a mere
fifth of an acre.
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Milwaukee's
Growing Power
empowers
inner-city youth
to raise healthy foods and reduce their
community's risk of obesity and
diabetes.
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LocallyGrown.net
has pioneered the
online farmers
market,
connecting a network of Georgia growers
with eager consumers.
Steven McFadden is
co-author of
Farms of Tomorrow
(1991), America’s first book on
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).
He also co-authored
Farms of Tomorrow
Revisited
(1998). A journalism graduate of Boston
University, McFadden has authored eight
other non-fiction books.
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