James Rebanks on Farming and the Environment
Caroline Fraser, author of two fabulous books, Prairie Fires: The American Dream of Laura Ingalls Wilder and God’s Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church (recently reissued, 2019), in her recent New York Review of Books (October 7, 2021) review of the work of James Rebanks, writes the following:
What was coming was a global revolution in monoculture that upended their lives and those of everyone they knew. Terrifying in its destructive power, it “played out in the fields,” mowing down all before it. “I was a witness, he says,’ but he is more than that. Pastoral Song, in is cri de coeur against our current state of abject agricultural illiteracy, may be the most passionate ecological corrective since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.
Listen to James Rebanks Keynote at the Practical Farmers of Iowa 2018 Annual Conference, Ames Iowa.
A Kansas Cornfield: A Monocultural Nightmare
Cornfield just a few miles from Jerry’s family farm near Seneca, Kansas.
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