Wes Jackson--a respected advocate for sustainable practices, organic agriculture, and environmental scientific
understanding--is the founder of The Land Institute, in Salina, Kansas. The author of Altars of Unhewn Stone and
New Roots for Agriculture, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992.
Review
"A call to rethink our basic assumptions about ecology while heeding lessons gleaned from our past."
--New York Times Book Review
"For those concerned about what will be left and how many billion will be starving in twenty years, this
is a must read."
--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
"A good introduction to a thinker whose ideas on agriculture are radical both in their technical approach
to food production as well as in terms of the economic, social, and cultural context within which it is practiced."
--Review of Radical Political Economics
Counterpoint Press Web Site, April, 2000
Summary
In six compelling essays, Wes Jackson lays the foundation for a new farming economy grounded in nature's principles.
Exploding the tenets of industrial agriculture, Jackson, a respected advocate for sustainable practices and the
founder of The Land Institute, seeks to integrate food production with nature in a way that sustains both.
