Nathan Beacom
Nathan Beacom writes on agriculture and the environment. His writing has appeared in Comment Magazine, America, The Des Moines Register, and elsewhere.
Articles by Nathan Beacom
Travels in Exotic Nebraska: A Review of American Harvest
The book is at its best when it embraces a more generous spirit. If one wishes to learn about traveling grain harvesters and to follow a literary description of the…
Remembering Our Names After the Fall
Rural Rebellion by Ross Benes, examines the changing politics of rural Nebraska from the perspective of a native son living in Brooklyn. Nebraska is a cycle of poems by Kwame…
The Biggest Small Farmer
Bromfield, like many farmers interested in sustainability, did not desire mere primitivism in cultivation, but a more intelligent way of farming that did not degrade the resources the farm depends…
How Farms Differ From Factories
For farming to exist sustainably, even from an economic perspective, it must be re-imagined.
Feeding the World from the Bottom Up
It is natural and normal, when looking at big problems, to look for big answers. Problems do not come much bigger than the subject of Eric Holt-Giménez’s new book, whose driving…