Review
"With much love, dedication, and diligence, and through interviews with farmers in Minnesota, Holthaus tells the story of today's agriculture... it is not a pretty picture... This book serves an as eye-opener. Highly recommended." ―Choice"
"[Holthaus's] book is a comprehensive look at the context of agriculture today and is valuable for urban readers as well as rural people who want to know where their food comes from and how it is produced." ―Dickey County Leader"
"Rural America is not somehow 'behind us,' a part of a past that is no longer central to our lives. For all of us, Holthaus shows, the thinking of rural people is relevant to the well-being of the nation and far more complex than we have realized. This book provides fresh insight into what is going on in the rural countryside and what farmers themselves have thought about those changes." ―Donald Worster, author of Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas"
"Farmers all over the world have begun to choose a new path." ―Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable A"
"His selected interviewees are all compelling studies." ―Harvard Book Review"
"Holthaus is a world-class listener, so much so that he is able to bring us farm stories that enlighten and enrich our sphere of knowledge and understanding of agriculture and all that it encompasses." ―Helene Murray, Executive Director, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agricultu"
"Holthaus's book tells the story of modern agriculture through engaging interviews with men and women who make a living farming in southeastern Minnesota. In a tone reminiscent of Wendell Berry's A Place on Earth, he examines the far-reaching effects of genetically modified organisms, free-trade agreements that nurture 'transnational corporate profit,' dependence on fossil fuel-derived chemicals, and the toll all this has taken on the land and farmers... Recommended for academic agriculture collections."―Library Journal"
"When farmers tell their story, there is no end to learning. A solid piece of work in the mosaic of the farming history of our country." ―Claus Sproll, Lilipoh"―
About the Author
Gary Holthaus is the author of several books, including Wide Skies: Finding a Home in the West, Circling Back, and Unexpected Manna.
