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The soil and health : a study of organic agriculture /
With a New Introduction by Wendell Berry The Soil and Health was published in 1945, just before agricultural corporations surged to global proportions. Sir Albert Howard's work is a major inspiration to the growing organic and sustainable farming movement and a thought-provoking reminder of a r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
2006.
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| Colección: | Culture of the land.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | With a New Introduction by Wendell Berry The Soil and Health was published in 1945, just before agricultural corporations surged to global proportions. Sir Albert Howard's work is a major inspiration to the growing organic and sustainable farming movement and a thought-provoking reminder of a road not taken in developing mainstream agriculture during the past half-century. The central tenet of Howard's philosophy is that healthy soil, vegetation, animals, and humans are connected and that undernourishment of soil is the source of modern agricultural and health problems. In Howard's estimati. |
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| Notas: | Originally published: New York : Devin-Adair Company, 1947. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 307 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813132099 0813132096 9780813138077 0813138078 1283327430 9781283327435 9786613327437 6613327433 |