Farming for the long haul : resilience and the lost art of agricultural inventiveness / Michael Foley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Farming in the ruins of the twentieth century -- A short, unhappy history of business advice for farmers -- Subsistence first! -- Land for the tiller -- Soil, civilization, and resilient farmers through the centuries -- Resourceful farmers -- Woodlands and wastes -- It takes a village : leisure, community, and resilience -- Getting a living, forging a livelihood -- Farmer, citizen, survivor : politics and resilience.

Farming for the Long Haul is a guide to building a viable small farm economy - one that can withstand the economic, political, and climatic shock waves that the twenty-first century portends. It details the innovative work of contemporary farmers, but more than anything else it draws from the experience of farming societies that maintained resilient agricultural systems over centuries of often turbulent change.