{"product_id":"seeding-hope-what-plants-teach-us-about-being-human-9781645023708","title":"Seeding Hope: What Plants Teach Us about Being Human","description":"\u003cb\u003eConnecting philosophical meditations with agricultural expertise, \u003ci\u003eSeeding Hope \u003c\/i\u003eurges us to reassess our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the vast living systems to which we belong--reminding us tht when we nurture the world around us, we nuture ourselves. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSeeding Hope, \u003c\/i\u003eJack Algiere, Chief Agroecology Officer (CAO) at Stone Barns, shares the wisdom he's gained in a lifetime of farming, growing, and observing the natural world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis luminous book is directed not just to farmers, but for all who desire a more connected and meaningful life. By following and examining the stages of a plant's life cycle, \u003ci\u003eSeeding Hope\u003c\/i\u003e explores how this botanical pattern is a vital blueprint, offering lessons that inform all aspects of our lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Algiere] is a brilliant farmer because he's a brilliant observer; he's spent a lifetime letting plants teach him how to see. In prose as attentive, searching, and grounded as his farming, Jack gathers those lessons into something rare and resonant: a portrait of the natural world as teacher, and an ethic for how to live, drawn from the ground up.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Dan Barber, Chef, Blue Hill and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Third Plate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Chelsea Green Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781645023708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Jack Algiere","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801325138101,"sku":"9781645023708","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/seeding-hope-what-plants-teach-us-about-being-human-9781645023708","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}