The Greenprint

Book excerpt: The Greenprint is a comprehensive compilation of Ellen White's writings on farming and gardening. It is a first of its kind and long overdue look at how one of the worlds most prolific and widely translated female authors cherised the art of growing food. Living during a time when America was beginning its shift from a rural and agricultural society to one predominately urban and industrial, Ellen White stood as a staunch advocate for a society centered around the farm. Far ahead of her time, she casts a vision for a hands-on and land based educational system where young people would flourish. For hospitals and doctors that used the treasures of the land to offer physical, mental, and spiritual healing. She saw in agriculture a noble and respectable work where many of the worlds greatest men would be shaped into the powerful mean they would become. She saw in well run farms the opportunity to radically reducing poverty, steward the environment, and be amazed by the wonders of the natural world and the God who created it. In a world increasingly disconnected from food and farming this book offers an inspiring and compelling look at the benefits of a more land based society.