#236592 in eBooks 2015-01-22 2015-01-22File Name: B00KWG5YVC15 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Inspiring Well Written Account of the Future of FarmingBy TarmansbooksThis is the inspiring story of a group of dryland prairie farmers in Montana who broke the yoke of large corporate agribusiness to develop an organic way of farming where they, rather than large companies, controlled their destinies. A young farmer, Dave Oien, was the first of the group to begin experimenting with organically grown lentils that would both restore the soil anAdvance Praise for Lentil Undergroundldquo;What does it take to farm sustainablymdash;and make a living? Liz Carlisle tells the engrossing story of the lsquo;audacity rich but capital poorrsquo; Montana farmers who thought lentils were the answer and stuck with them until proved right. Anyone who dA proteacute;geacute; of Michael Pollan shares the story of a little known group of renegade farmers who defied corporate agribusiness by launching a unique sustainable farm-to-table food movement.The story of the Lentil Underground begins on a 280-acre homestead rooted in Americarsquo;s Great Plains: the Oien family farm. Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness told small farmers like the Oiens to ldquo;get big or get out.rdquo; But twenty-seven-year-old David Oien decided to take a stand, beco...
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