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The Carbon Fields: How Our Countryside Can Save Britain [Paperback]

Graham Harvey (Author)
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  • Paperback: 248 pages
  • Publisher: GrassRoots (Oct 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0956070701
  • ISBN-13: 978-0956070708
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Fab book, not just for foodies and farmers 24 Nov 2008
By Jonathan Green
Format:Paperback
Graham's book opened my eyes to what is wrong with our agricultural system: A strong reliance on grain, fertilisers and oil has meant that the majority of our food is expensive, tastes like cardboard and contains few nutrients.

By simply changing to a different farming system we can solve problems such as the food crisis, the greenhouse effect and ill health.

I'll certainly be eating grass fed from now. Once you've read this book you'll want to as well.

Graham's style of writing means that even someone with no knowledge of food science and farming (like myself) can understand. The nice bitesize chapters make easy and enjoyable reading.
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17 of 21 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars The Carbon Fields - a Review 22 July 2009
By D. Callaghan
Format:Paperback
It is hardly surprising that environmentalists like Jonathan Porritt have endorsed this book. There is much here that anyone who abhors the systematic depredation of our planet can agree with. However, I have some reservations, beginning with that subtitle. Why just Britain? Why not the world? Britain cannot isolate itself from the rest of the world and its problems, including climate change and the world food crisis, which can only be addressed on an international scale.

However, Mr Harvey, winner of the BP Natural World Book Prize and current Agricultural Story Editor for The Archers, (go figure) confines his crusade to the UK. True, he cites pasture farmers in the USA and elsewhere, but they are marginal, serving only an `in the know' minority of mostly middle-class customers who are prepared drive considerable distances to buy their produce. As the cover blurb says: "No breakthroughs are required, no "fad" diets. You won't have to throw away the car keys or give up real butter and juicy steaks."

Another `beef' I have with this book is that it is really just a blown up pamphlet. It is like a series of press articles, all on a common theme, stitched together. In true journalistic style the author first tells us what he is going to tell us, then he tells us, then he tells us what he has told us, over and over again, as if he believes that constant repetition wins the argument.

That aside, Mr Harvey does get some things right, like how the established root system of pasture land helps it resist drought and flooding and how it acts as a co2 sink by removing carbon from the air and storing it below ground.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book 12 Jan 2010
By A. Pilkington
Format:Paperback
This book should be read by everyone interested in farming, food or the environment. I agree with a previous review that the style of writing can at times be a little repetitive, but for me, the messages that this book conveys are too important let this get in the way.

There is some very good information on animal health, and the relation of the animal's health and diet to human health. Also, the lunacy of growing cheap subsidised cereals (grown using fossil fuel derived fertilisers and pesticides) and feeding these to animals whose natural diet should be grass is well explained in this book.

We often hear that intensive agriculture is the only way to feed the world and its ever increasing population; surely another argument would be that the world simply cannot carry this vast population. Intensive agriculture of any type relies totally on fossil fuels, and as these become scarce, we will have little choice other than to go back to more traditional methods of producing food. Without artificial fertilisers (derived from fossil fuels) we will need grass fed animals as part of a mixed farming system to provide the fertility to the soil for growing crops.

This book contains some essential messages for the future of our food production and the environment around us, it should be widely read.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A plea for agricultural sanity 25 April 2009
By Redwood the Younger
Format:Paperback
This is a great book for those of us who love the British landscape, car about the environment and rural communities, care about animal health and welfare and want to eat good food with a clear conscience. Graham Harvey should be made Minister of Agriculture and the Environment immediately. The book is written in an accessible style but well researched and documented - if you have children and you care about their health and their future you must read this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars very interesting, if a bit too ancecdotal 25 Nov 2011
By nicolaterry
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I have enjoyed reading this book, and there is some very interesting stuff in it. For example the information about how grazing increases carbon in the soil was new to me, and I would love to know more about how eating wild herbs in organic meadows decreases the production of methane from cattle - only I doubt there has been any quantitative research on this. (After all, monitoring gas from cattle digestion is not easy, and probably not very nice for the cattle). Mr. Harvey is obviously very passionate about his subject and that comes over very strongly.
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars This book should be made compusary reading for anyone who eats food!!! 5 Nov 2008
By Mrs. C. Barnard
Format:Paperback
I have read many depressing books about how the world is going down the toilet: transport, electricity and agriculture are all taking their toll on the planet etc.
So far i haven't read any books that offer any solutions bar drive less, watch less TV, eat less.
Then i read The Carbon Fields - it might not cover the first two, but it definatly seems to have the answer for the third.
Graham manages to pull together a whole world of research, makes it accesable and offers some real answers, showing how you can eat at lot of the same food, just more healthily, whilst saving the planet. How can you not be intersted in that!?!?!?
Plus his system gives us a nice pretty coutryside to walk around in, not a giant plane of identikit GM farms and greenhouses.
Read this book, if we are all lucky it might change the world for the better....
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