| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Beckoning Plant; 1. A Country Prophet; 2. A Bulldozing Businessman; 3. Buyers and Sellers of Seed; 4. A Perfect Consultant; 5. What Made the Company Run; 6. Killing off the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg; 7. Folding up the Tent; 8. The County Attorney and His Investigator; 9. The Lost Covenant; Conclusion: The Planets Went Astray; Chronology; AEFS Organizational Structure; Notes; Sources; Index |
| Summary |
In 1981, near the end of Americas second post-World War II energy crisis, and at the onset of the nations most recent farm crisis, American Energy Farming Systems began to sell and distribute what it deemed a "providential plant" destined to be a new and saving crop the Jerusalem Artichoke. This volume recounts this story of the bizarre intersection of evangelical Christianity, a mythical belief in the powers of a new crop, and the depression of the U.S. farm economy in the 1980s |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American Energy Farming Systems.
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| SUBJECT |
American Energy Farming Systems fast |
| Subject |
Horticultural products industry -- United States
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Horticultural products industry
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gruchow, Paul
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| ISBN |
9780816685479 |
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0816685479 |
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