Farming on the Edge: Saving Family Farms in Marin County, paperback, John Hart

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ISBN
9780520071735
Book Title
Farming on the Edge : Saving Family Farms in Marin County, California
Publisher
University of California Press
Item Length
10.8 in
Publication Year
1990
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Author
John Hart
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History
Topic
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Agriculture / General
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Width
5.9 in
Number of Pages
180 Pages
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520071735
ISBN-13
9780520071735
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1309457

Product Key Features

Book Title
Farming on the Edge : Saving Family Farms in Marin County, California
Number of Pages
180 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Agriculture / General
Publication Year
1990
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History
Author
John Hart
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
10.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN
90-036813
Dewey Edition
20
Photographed by
Rosen, Joan
Dewey Decimal
333.76/17
Synopsis
Part celebration of a farm community, part case study in successful land-use planning, Farming on the Edge offers what could be a nationwide model for farmland preservation. During the 1960s Marin County, across the Golden Gate from San Francisco, had plans to build suburbs almost from shore to shore. Freeways were about to cut across the farmland and land prices were rising. The struggling dairy industry seemed doomed. Then in 1970 a group of politicians, farmers, and citizen activists forged an alliance to protect the county's agricultural land from suburban "conversion." An uneasy alliance at first, with ranchers and environmentalists used to waging battle with each other over zoning strictures, it has grown into a friendship based on profound respect and trust. At a time when the United States is in danger of becoming the world's first suburban country, John Hart's profiles together with Joan Rosen's photographs of Marin ranchers and their families eloquently evoke the tough-mindedness, the sense of stewardship, and the rooted way of life that make the family-farm inheritance vital to preserve.
LC Classification Number
HD1476.U6M34 1990

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