Feed Us with Trees

Informationen zum Autor Elspeth Hay is a writer, public radio host, and creator of the Local Food Report, a weekly feature that has aired on CAI, the Cape & Islands NPR Station, since 2008. Deeply immersed in her own local food system, she writes and reports for print, radio, and online media with a focus on food and the environment. Elspeth's work has been featured in the Boston Globe, NPR's Kitchen Window, Heated with Mark Bittman, The Provincetown Independent, and numerous other publications. Through her conversations with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policy makers, Indigenous knowledge-keepers, scientists, researchers, and visionaries, she aims to rebuild our cultural store of culinary knowledge-and to reconnect us with the people, places, and ideas that feed us. Elspeth lives with her family on Cape Cod, MA. Klappentext A new and ancient story about perennial nut trees, our ecological role as humans, and the future of food The day Elspeth Hay learned that we can eat acorns, stories she'd believed her whole life began to unravel. Until then she'd always believed we must grow our staple foods in farmed fields-the same fields wreaking havoc on our land, air, and water. But all over the Northern Hemisphere, Hay learned, humans once grew our staple foods in forest gardens centered on perennial nut trees: oaks, chestnuts, and hazelnuts. In Feed Us with Trees, Hay brings us along as she gets to know dozens of nut growers, scientists, Indigenous knowledge-keepers, researchers, and food professionals-and discovers that in tending these staple trees, we once played a vital environmental role as one of Earth's keystone species. Feed Us with Trees is Hay's hopeful manifesto about a brighter, more abundant future-and a critical look at the long-held stories we'll need to rewrite to build it. It will appeal to environmentalists, regenerative farmers, permaculture enthusiasts, agroforesters, locavores, and anyone hungry for a more holistic, nutrient-dense diet rooted in wild foods and ancient knowledge. Zusammenfassung We're thinking about agriculture all wrong. Feed Us with Trees breaks down the stories trapping us in today's ruinous food system and destroying our ecological healthand reminds us that all over the Northern Hemisphere, humans once grew our staple foods on perennial nut trees such as oaks, chestnuts, and hazelnuts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Stuck Inside a Story Chapter 1: The Myth of Scarcity Chapter 2: A World of Abundance Chapter 3: Crafting Wilderness Part II: The Myth Unravels Chapter 4: Why We Left Chapter 5: Two Fundamentally Different Types of Culture Chapter 6: Tragedies of the Commons Part III: Emerging Narratives Chapter 7: A Real Tree-Crops Farm Chapter 8: Leaps in Productivity Chapter 9: Remembering the Art of Tending Chapter 10: Adventures in Eating Chapter 11: The Science of Nutrition Chapter 12: Moral Complications Conclusion: A Field Guide to Being Human ...

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Elspeth Hay is a writer, public radio host, and creator of the Local Food Report, a weekly feature that has aired on CAI, the Cape & Islands NPR Station, since 2008. Deeply immersed in her own local food system, she writes and reports for print, radio, and online media with a focus on food and the environment. Elspeth's work has been featured in the Boston Globe, NPR's Kitchen Window, Heated with Mark Bittman, The Provincetown Independent, and numerous other publications. Through her conversations with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policy makers, Indigenous knowledge-keepers, scientists, researchers, and visionaries, she aims to rebuild our cultural store of culinary knowledge-and to reconnect us with the people, places, and ideas that feed us. Elspeth lives with her family on Cape Cod, MA.

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A new and ancient story about perennial nut trees, our ecological role as humans, and the future of food

The day Elspeth Hay learned that we can eat acorns, stories she'd believed her whole life began to unravel.

Until then she'd always believed we must grow our staple foods in farmed fields-the same fields wreaking havoc on our land, air, and water. But all over the Northern Hemisphere, Hay learned, humans once grew our staple foods in forest gardens centered on perennial nut trees: oaks, chestnuts, and hazelnuts. In Feed Us with Trees, Hay brings us along as she gets to know dozens of nut growers, scientists, Indigenous knowledge-keepers, researchers, and food professionals-and discovers that in tending these staple trees, we once played a vital environmental role as one of Earth's keystone species.

Feed Us with Trees is Hay's hopeful manifesto about a brighter, more abundant future-and a critical look at the long-held stories we'll need to rewrite to build it. It will appeal to environmentalists, regenerative farmers, permaculture enthusiasts, agroforesters, locavores, and anyone hungry for a more holistic, nutrient-dense diet rooted in wild foods and ancient knowledge.

Zusammenfassung
We're thinking about agriculture all wrong. Feed Us with Trees breaks down the stories trapping us in today's ruinous food system and destroying our ecological healthand reminds us that all over the Northern Hemisphere, humans once grew our staple foods on perennial nut trees such as oaks, chestnuts, and hazelnuts.

Inhalt

Introduction

Part I: Stuck Inside a Story
Chapter 1: The Myth of Scarcity
Chapter 2: A World of Abundance
Chapter 3: Crafting Wilderness

Part II: The Myth Unravels
Chapter 4: Why We Left
Chapter 5: Two Fundamentally Different Types of Culture
Chapter 6: Tragedies of the Commons

Part III: Emerging Narratives
Chapter 7: A Real Tree-Crops Farm
Chapter 8: Leaps in Productivity
Chapter 9: Remembering the Art of Tending
Chapter 10: Adventures in Eating
Chapter 11: The Science of Nutrition
Chapter 12: Moral Complications

Conclusion: A Field Guide to Being Human