The Human Farm: A Tale of Changing Lives and Changing Lands
Katie Smith | | ISBN: 978-1-56549-039-0 $22.00 |
| 1994/145 pages/LC: 94-16632 A Kumarian Press Book |
DESCRIPTION
Katie Smith tells the unforgettable story of a group of Honduran peasants who—as they learn to renew their fields and enhance their harvests—also learn lessons that renew their hopes and lead to a new sense of community. Smith's engaging and enlightening narrative follows the peasants as, under the leadership of the inspirational José Elías Sánchez, they carve out a new path to economic and spiritual betterment.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Katie Smith is a partner at The Bridgespan Group, a Boston-based consulting firm.
CONTENTS
- Foreword—Roland Bunch.
- Hunger on the Hillsides.
- A Farm Called Loma Linda.
- Of Corn and Cover Crops.
- Preparing the Land.
- Planting Seeds.
- Tender Shoots.
- Storms and Vermin.
- Hands for the Harvest.
- A Human Farm.
- Appendixes: Quotable Quotes by Don José Elías Sánchez. Building Local Institutions: The Case of Granja Loma Linda, Honduras.
"Informative and inspiring, The Human Farm overflows with the courage and tenacity of dirt-poor farmers who set out to change their fields—and end up changing their lives."—Meredith K. Wadman, Oakland Tribune
"This is more than a story of agricultural development. It is a story of human transformation. Katie Smith has captured the change in the real-life story of grassroots people whose land and lives have been transformed."—Joan Levett, World Vision International
"[An] inspiring story of how, given the most basic skills and encouragement, people can effect remarkable changes."—Publishers Weekly