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Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place Audiobook, by Brooks Lamb Play Audiobook Sample

Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place Audiobook

Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place Audiobook, by Brooks Lamb Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Walter Dixon Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798350849226

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

11

Longest Chapter Length:

50:13 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

15:30 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

37:15 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Love for the Land explores the power and potential of people-place relationships. Through clear and compelling prose, it elevates the virtues of imagination, affection, and fidelity—concepts promoted by farmer-writer Wendell Berry—and shows how they motivate small- and mid-scale farmers to care for the land, even in the face of adversity. Paying particular attention to farmland loss from suburban sprawl, rampant agricultural consolidation, and, for farmers of color, racial injustice, Brooks Lamb reckons with the harsh realities that these farmers face.

Drawing from in-depth interviews and hands-on experiences in two changing rural communities, he shares stories and sacrifices from dozens of farmers, local leaders, agricultural service providers, and land conservationists. Lamb's rural roots and farming background enable him to cultivate honest, trusting connections with the farmers he engages, yielding raw and powerful insights. Time and again, compelling evidence reveals that stewardship virtues encourage people to live and act as devoted caretakers.

With a refreshing, accessible, and engaging approach, Lamb argues that these resilient and often overlooked farmers show rural and urban people alike a way forward, one that serves people, places, and the planet. That path is rooted in love for the land.

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About Walter Dixon

Walter Dixon is a broadcast media veteran of more than twenty years’ experience with a background in theater and performing arts and voice work for commercials. After a career in public radio, he is now a full-time narrator with more than fifty audiobooks recorded in genres ranging from religion and politics to children’s stories.