Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
by Novella Carpenter · 25 May 2010 · 306pp · 94,204 words
two pigs,” Chris said, “so I had to talk to you.” Chris told me that he had thought I was some kind of rich-lady hobby farmer who lived in some rural area and wanted advice on raising pigs. When he met me and realized I was some poor
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hobby farmer from the ghetto, he was intrigued. I had to give something back. One day I slipped the pastry chef a wrapped package of Little Girl’
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
by Jane McGonigal · 20 Jan 2011 · 470pp · 128,328 words
most active players brought together an astonishingly diverse range of personal concerns and real-life expertise to the game. For example:• Peakprophet, a self-described “hobby farmer” in Tennessee, who forecast the collapse of the fresh-food supply chain—and then took it upon himself to train other players how to grow
Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet
by Roger Scruton · 30 Apr 2014 · 426pp · 118,913 words
power to impose large-scale projects from on high. The efforts of civil associations are sometimes dismissed as the work of middle-class ‘nimbys’ and hobby farmers, and we need to bear that sceptical attitude in mind. It resonates in many people today and there is a truth contained in it. It
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Farmers Association are advocating a subsidy-free agriculture, which will remove the advantages enjoyed by the big polluters and the agribusinesses. Small farms run by hobby farmers and organic producers as yet account for only 3 per cent of farm produce in the USA, but the proportion is growing; journals and clubs
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catering for hobby farmers are springing up across the country, and the local food movement is gathering momentum.373 There is a new interest in ‘permaculture’, with a Permaculture
Future Files: A Brief History of the Next 50 Years
by Richard Watson · 1 Jan 2008
with high disposable incomes and liberal political persuasions. Some might say they already are. The rural areas that still exist will be populated by rich hobby-farmers interspersed with downshifters, smartisans and digital nomads. But it’s not just the cities that are changing. In 1950, 80% of US households comprised the
Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse
by Adrian Wooldridge · 29 Nov 2011 · 460pp · 131,579 words
fridges. Most Western carmakers are producing small, inexpensive vehicles that have been influenced by the Nano. Mahindra & Mahindra’s nifty little tractors are popular with hobby farmers and gardeners in America. John Hagel and John Seely Brown have predicted that the emerging world’s advance will lead to a serious “blowback” in
A Time of Birds: Reflections on Cycling Across Europe
by Helen Moat · 26 Mar 2020 · 266pp · 85,223 words
pair of heifers, too, in the fields that straddled the farm track. It was a chance for him to have a go at being the hobby farmer he’d always dreamed of. But this project was equally doomed as the cattle escaped the fields on a regular basis. He called my brothers
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · 17 Sep 2024 · 588pp · 160,825 words
America are part-time farmers. Ayana: A lot of them are also truckers or teachers or contractors or something. Brian: Yeah. Not just the quasi-hobby farmers like we are, but even commercial large-scale farmers often have other jobs to help support themselves. And they’re usually a couple. One part
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
by Gaia Vince · 19 Oct 2014 · 505pp · 147,916 words
them impractical for food production on a larger scale. However, growing food in the urban environment on regular multistorey plots is likely to increase as hobby farmers, beekeepers and specialist growers take advantage of cleaner air, water and soils of Anthropocene cities, and vacant sites are used more effectively. In Berlin, rooftop