A Countercultural Agriculture
Last weekend, along the high banks of the Smoky Hill River a few miles south of Salina, Kansas, more than a thousand revolutionaries from all over the country gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Land Institute.
Armed with strong coffee and cans of kombucha, they pledged their allegiance to the institute’s audacious, counter-agricultural goal of developing “an agricultural system with the ecological stability of the prairie and a grain yield comparable to that from annual crops.” …