Comments on: Books http://benchlandblog.com/2009/01/books/ News and Views From High Above Dry Creek Valley Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:05:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tony http://benchlandblog.com/2009/01/books/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Tony Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:58:59 +0000 http://benchlandblog.com/?p=1044#comment-241 Excellent! Thanks for the recomends. It's great to see that books like these are being written and read in these crazy days. And it's extemely great to hear "The One-Straw Revolution" will be back in print -- I'm gonna see if I can pre-order it right now... tony Excellent! Thanks for the recomends. It’s great to see that books like these are being written and read in these crazy days. And it’s extemely great to hear “The One-Straw Revolution” will be back in print — I’m gonna see if I can pre-order it right now…

tony

]]> By: Mikeb http://benchlandblog.com/2009/01/books/comment-page-1/#comment-233 Mikeb Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:08:46 +0000 http://benchlandblog.com/?p=1044#comment-233 Farming With The Wild by Dan Imhoff is another great book with examples of how farms and previously "wild" areas can be, and have been, turned around (even in the worst case scenarios). An inspiration to any and all. Farming With The Wild by Dan Imhoff is another great book with examples of how farms and previously “wild” areas can be, and have been, turned around (even in the worst case scenarios). An inspiration to any and all.

]]> By: Sara http://benchlandblog.com/2009/01/books/comment-page-1/#comment-232 Sara Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:52:30 +0000 http://benchlandblog.com/?p=1044#comment-232 Just to let you know that The One-Straw Revolution will be much easier to come by soon—NYRB Classics will be reissuing it this spring with a new introduction by Frances Moore Lappé. Cheers! Just to let you know that The One-Straw Revolution will be much easier to come by soon—NYRB Classics will be reissuing it this spring with a new introduction by Frances Moore Lappé. Cheers!

]]> By: tina http://benchlandblog.com/2009/01/books/comment-page-1/#comment-231 tina Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:10:30 +0000 http://benchlandblog.com/?p=1044#comment-231 Have you also read Fruitless Fall? I saw the author speak about it a few months ago, and it seemed a bit alarmist but perhaps worth reading, about Colony Collapse Disorder. I loved Pollan's follow-up to Omnivore's D., In Defense of Food. He says he felt like he'd left us, at the end of the previous book, afraid to love food and he wanted to reverse that impression. It's full of funny little tips and anecdotes ("Don't eat anything your grandmother would not recognize as food."; "Shop at the edges of the grocery store and not the center aisles." "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.") and such. Loved it. Cheers, T. Have you also read Fruitless Fall? I saw the author speak about it a few months ago, and it seemed a bit alarmist but perhaps worth reading, about Colony Collapse Disorder.

I loved Pollan’s follow-up to Omnivore’s D., In Defense of Food. He says he felt like he’d left us, at the end of the previous book, afraid to love food and he wanted to reverse that impression. It’s full of funny little tips and anecdotes (“Don’t eat anything your grandmother would not recognize as food.”; “Shop at the edges of the grocery store and not the center aisles.” “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”) and such. Loved it.

Cheers, T.

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