Lentil underground : renegade farmers and the future of food in America / Liz Carlisle.

Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness launched a campaign to push small grain farmers to modernize or perish, or as Nixon's secretary of agriculture Earl Butz put it, "get big or get out." But 27-year-old David Oien decided to take a stand when he dropped out of grad school to retur...

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Main Author: Carlisle, Liz
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Gotham Books, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Fertile ground
  • Homecoming
  • Against the grain
  • pt. II. Seeds of change
  • Miracle plant
  • Deeply rooted
  • Bootleg research and farmer science
  • pt. III. Timeless grows up
  • Have your seeds and eat them too
  • 300,000 pounds of lentils
  • Caviar in the cattle ration
  • pt. IV. Ripe for revolution
  • The convert
  • The Kevin Bacon of central Montana
  • A PhD with a dirty secret
  • The gospel of lentils
  • The birds, the bees, and the bureaucracy
  • From the weeds to the White House
  • pt. V. Harvest
  • The moment of truth
  • The next generation
  • Looking back, looking forward.