Barnyards and Birkenstocks: Why Farmers and Environmentalists Need Each Other

by Don Stuart

Book Overview

Rural America is struggling. The average farmer is now 57 years old. Family agriculture is gradually fading, and prime farmland is often converted into environmentally harmful applications. But food cultivation has ecological consequences, too. Farms consume 80 percent of the nation's water. Although they often prevent sprawling development, improve water quality, or provide wildlife habitat, they also pollute rivers, drain wetlands, or emit destructive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874223229
• ISBN13: 9780874223224
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Washington State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"