Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America

by Liz Carlisle

Book Overview

A protege 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 America's Great Plains- the Oien family farm. Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness told small farmers like the Oiens to "get big or get out." But twenty-seven-year-old David Oien decided...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592409563
• ISBN13: 9781592409563
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0"