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One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture is a 2019 book on how the American food production system must move beyond conventional and sustainable farming to embrace regenerative farming strategies tailored to individual environments. Anderson, who grew up on a conventional ranch outside of Bison, South Dakota, has firsthand knowledge of US conventional farming strategies. As a young journalist for the Tri-State Neighbor newspaper, she started off wanting to protect conventional farmers and ranchers, like her family, from so-called “liberal media” slander. However, as Anderson toured more and more conventional farms, she became increasingly disillusioned. She realized that conventional farming strategies were jeopardizing the health and wellbeing of ecosystems, farming families, rural communities, and society. As such, Anderson wanted to better understand how regenerative farming might apply to different farms and environments. In One Size Fits None, Anderson provides five case studies that span farms and ranches in Florida, South Dakota, New Mexico, and North Dakota to illustrate how “we need to avoid the one-size-fits-all thinking that got us into trouble” (xiii) in the first place.

Summary

Part 1 reveals how farmers and ranches became trapped in the conventional farming system to the detriment of their families, finances, environment, and communities.

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