Sustaining the Land with Wes Jackson

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Re-connecting to the land and living in harmony with the natural environment are the twin touchstones of this eloquent advocacy of sustainable agriculture by Jackson. He provides an abundance of reasons to re-view the farm, the farmer, and our "more technology is better" system of agriculture. Jackson argues that we are losing something precious when we allow agribusiness and real estate interests to swallow up the small farm, and that only by returning to nature's roots can we see a valid way out of the fossil fuel farm, which breeds costly high technology, ecological damage and bankrupt small farmers. (hosted by Michael Toms)

Bio

Wes Jackson is the founder and former president of The Land Institute. He is also a member of the World Future Council.

His books include:

• Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson (Counterpoint 2011)
• Becoming Native to This Place (The Blazer Lectures for 1991) (University Press of Kentucky 1994)
• Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture (Counterpoint 2011)
• New Roots for Agriculture (University of Nebraska Press 1985)
• Meeting the Expectations of the Land (co-editor) (North Point Press 1984)

To learn more about Wes Jackson and The Land Institute go to https://landinstitute.org/.

Host: Michael Toms   Interview Date: 4/30/1985   Program Number: 1939