This spring, we're partnering with AgriCorps for our eighth selected book, The Last Hunger Season by Roger Thurow. We've read a lot about agriculture in the United States, but we'll be branching out to African to learn more about the culture of farming and some of the challenges associated with it. Here’s what you need… Continue reading May/June 2018 – The Last Hunger Season
Category: Book of the Month
3/28/18 #AgBookClub Recap
Miss the last #AgBookClub chat? No worries, we’ve compiled a summary of the chat to prepare you for next week! This week, we wrapped up discussion of our March book, The Man Who Fed the World, by Leon Hesser. Week 4 covered pages 170 - the end (chapters 14 - the epilogue). Below are several… Continue reading 3/28/18 #AgBookClub Recap
3/21/18 #AgBookClub Recap
Miss the last #AgBookClub chat? No worries, we’ve compiled a summary of the chat to prepare you for next week! This week, we continued discussing our March book, The Man Who Fed the World, by Leon Hesser. Week 3 covered pages 105 - 169 (chapters 8 - 13). Below are several responses that we thought… Continue reading 3/21/18 #AgBookClub Recap
3/14/18 #AgBookClub Recap
Miss the last #AgBookClub chat? No worries, we’ve compiled a summary of the chat to prepare you for next week! This week, we continued discussing our March book, The Man Who Fed the World, by Leon Hesser. Week 2 covered pages 67 - 104 (chapters 5 - 7). Below are several responses that we thought… Continue reading 3/14/18 #AgBookClub Recap
3/7/18 #AgBookClub Recap
Miss the last #AgBookClub chat? No worries, we’ve compiled a summary of the chat to prepare you for next week! This week, we kicked off our March read, The Man Who Fed the World, by Leon Hesser. Week 1 covered pages 1 - 66 (chapters 1 - 4), which covered Borlaug's early life and important… Continue reading 3/7/18 #AgBookClub Recap
April 2018 – No More Food Fights
You voted and we listened! Our seventh selected book for AgBookClub will be No More Food Fights! by Michele Payn-Knoper. Just like the title indicates, this book tackles misconceptions in the food conversation from two different perspectives. Here’s what you need to do this month: Get the book. Buy it, borrow it, read over your… Continue reading April 2018 – No More Food Fights
2/28/18 #AgBookClub Recap
Miss the last #AgBookClub chat? No worries, we’ve compiled a summary of the chat to prepare you for next week! This week, we finished off our February read, The Food Police, by Jayson Lusk. Week 4 covered pages 135 - 190 (chapters 8, 9 & 10), which covered topics like nutrition, school lunch programs, and… Continue reading 2/28/18 #AgBookClub Recap
