Field Trip: My Years on a Johns Island Farm
Field Trip: My Years on a Johns Island Farm

Author: Lee Glover

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-09-18

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13:

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Change is constant. It's happening all around us all the time. At this very moment, all across America, cities, towns, and communities are changing. Populations shift, incomes fluctuate, and social norms evolve. Change is a huge concept. And just south of Charleston, South Carolina, Johns Island was a tiny community until it wasn't. Born-and-raised Johns Island resident Lee Glover tells the story of the evolution of his home from a rural agrarian setting to a rapidly changing sea island of the Low Country. Traditionally, Johns Island produced millions of pounds of fresh produce that was shipped all across America every year. Each summer, migrants and workers of all description, and in numbers sometimes surpassing the island's total population, flocked to participate in the harvest. By August, everything was serenely calm once again. Then, in the late twentieth century, a massive change in industry from agriculture to tourism saw the once-quiet community transform into something vastly different. Field Trip is a deeply personal documentation of this change to preserve some of the times, events, and people that are rapidly fading into history. Through remembrances and shared history, the reader will learn the trials and joys of growing the food we eat and the intricacies of working with many different people. Going deeper than just the industrial history of Johns Island, the book is a lesson on how fellowship is one of several essential ingredients to having meaningful and enduring relationships. It is a glue that helps to hold relationships together during challenging times of change.

A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World
A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World

Author: Jennifer Grayson

Publisher: The Countryman Press

Published: 2024-07-09

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 168268847X

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Hope for the future lies with a new generation of regenerative farmers. Within a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswell of new growers will face numerous challenges, including soil degradation, insufficient income, and investors devouring farmland at a staggering pace. These new farmers are embracing regenerative agriculture—the holistic approach to growing food that restores the soil and biodiversity—in the movement to reclaim our health and the planet’s. But can their efforts help reverse an epidemic of diet-related disease, food inequality, and even climate change? To answer that question and more, award-winning journalist Jennifer Grayson embedded herself in a groundbreaking farmer training program, then embarked on this investigative journey. The diverse array of farmers, graziers, and food activists whom she profiles here are working toward better, more sustainable foodways for all. From a one-acre market garden in Oregon to activists reviving food sovereignty in South Carolina, A Call to Farms tells the captivating story of these new agrarians finding hope and purpose in reconnecting to the land and striving to improve the future of American food.

Matiatia
Matiatia

Author: Paul Monin

Publisher: Bridget Williams Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1927131456

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Matiatia Bay is the gateway to Waiheke Island. Lying beside the island's best natural harbour, it has been the landing place for Maori waka, settler barges, tourist yachts and commuter ferries today. This beautiful heritage site is threatened by development - a marina is proposed, and intensive parking. Establishing the significance of the past, historian Paul Monin tells Matiatia's story from early Maori occupation to the present day. Here in a fertile bay in the magnificent setting of the Hauraki Gulf is a microcosm of New Zealand's history. Charmingly written, MATIATIA: GATEWAY TO WAIHEKE includes a rich array of photographs and maps.

Out of the Earth
Out of the Earth

Author: Kerry Downey Romaniello

Publisher: Spinner Publications

Published: 1999-06

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780932027405

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Integration of the Nantucket's schools followed eight years of contention in the 1840s. Boycotts, petitions, and violence resulted in the first law in the United States to guarantee equal education for all citizens regardless of race.

Josiah Whitby
Josiah Whitby

Author: Eli Alexander

Publisher: Ambassador International

Published: 2011-06-30

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1935507710

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What would you do if you knew an injustice was occurring right before your eyes but you would have to break the law, lose the love of your life, alienate all of your friends, and risk death to remedy the situation? That is the predicament Josiah Whitby finds himself in in the mid 1800’s in Charleston, SC. Being a newly trained pastor, he realizes that his religion should not and would not condone the treatment of slaves in his beloved South. He loves the people, the traditions and culture of the South, but the ever-present practice of slavery leaves him conflicted. He knows he must take action, but how? Join Josiah in taking a look at your own beliefs and morals. What would you do?

I'm Just a Teacher
I'm Just a Teacher

Author: Michael Floyd

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-06-26

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13:

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The author of I'm Just a Teacher shares his love of teaching, his passion for learning, and his art of building relationships with students and their families. As a highly imaginative, innovative, and award-winning educator with over fifty years of experience his remarkable lifelong goal has been "To Reach Out, Touch Others, and Make a Difference." Over the years, he has developed a unique and highly motivational system of project-based learning and assessment with multiple pathways, fostering greater student engagement and success. Today, teachers face angry and hostile citizen groups; a merciless, raging pandemic; encounter a lack of respect and waning trust while the nobility of the profession has been run aground. For public school teachers, some career politicians bent on their unwavering agendas to abandon and bury public education is a continual threat. The shortage of teachers is seriously rampant and shortchanging students while overworking current educators. The vital academic freedom needed to teach and make a difference in the lives of students is replaced with forced data collection for political reasons. The author insists that in spite of these challenges to the profession, educators wear many hats and are masters of multitasking. Indeed, learning can become fun, and in his teaching bag, the use of humor is a key methodology. Learning can be exciting, entertaining, and challenging in creating a positive and proactive learning environment. Knowledge of aikido instills in him a sense of calm, confidence, and control in the face of adversity. It is turning anguish into positive action. It enables him to be in charge of the situation and not the situation in charge of him. To this day, the author firmly believes in teachers, trusts in teachers, and applauds teachers that shower students with praise, compassion, solid example, and instill hope for a brighter future while unleashing student imagination.