Sublime

In the 1960s, climate- and weather-control proposals were all the rage, both in the United States and the USSR. Project Stormfury, a collaboration between the U.S. Navy and the Weather Bureau, targeted hurricanes. These, it was believed, could be weakened by sending aircraft to seed the clouds around the eyewall with silver iodide.

by a series of farms that go from ten acres to a hundred acres, maybe even to five hundred acres. Not nearly as big as the biggest farms today, but big enough to take advantage of

Add in the reduced spraying that could come from developing virus- and fungus-resistant crops—predicted to be about 91 million pounds—and

whole, the parts of which are all “turned into one.” A good agricultural system, which is to say a durable one, is

Each one volunteers to be eaten, so others might be spread far afield.

Much of what was known about hurricanes in those days derived from the work of Reverend Benito Vines, a nineteenth-century Jesuit priest who was one of the first meteorologists to specialize in hurricane forecasting. Reverend Vines had established a meteorological observatory at Belén College in Havana, and while he had access to little in the way

The United States consumes one-fifth of all the world’s coffee, making it the largest consumer in the world. But few Americans realize that agricultural workers in the coffee industry often toil in what can be described as “sweatshops in the fields.” Many small coffee farmers receive prices for their coffee that are less than the costs of productio

and Gail Luttmann; Raising Poultry Successfully by Will Graves (1985), which covers chickens,