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BOOKS<br />
Malaprop’s presents ‘One Size Fits None’ and Works in Translation with<br />
Justin Souther this <strong>March</strong><br />
BY STAFF REPORTS • DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE<br />
STEPHANIE ANDERSON PRES-<br />
ENTS ONE SIZE FITS NONE: A<br />
FARM GIRL’S SEARCH FOR THE<br />
PROMISE OF REGENERATIVE<br />
AGRICULTURE IN CONVERSA-<br />
TION WITH MARY SAUNDERS<br />
BULAN, PH.D.<br />
Thomas Jefferson thought of<br />
farmers as the nation’s MVPs. He<br />
called them “the most vigorous,<br />
the most independent, the most<br />
virtuous” of our citizens. But Jefferson<br />
didn’t live in this time, when<br />
95% of the food and commodities<br />
grown in the US come from hightech<br />
growers who plant, tend, and<br />
harvest their massive fields without<br />
ever touching soil, and Jefferson<br />
could never have anticipated that<br />
the use of insecticides and fertilizers<br />
would deplete that soil to near<br />
infertility.<br />
Let’s play fair and acknowledge<br />
that modern farms produce far more<br />
food per acre than their predecessors,<br />
and global levels of poverty and<br />
starvation are at the lowest levels<br />
ever. But the methods they use aren’t<br />
sustainable. For reasons of public<br />
health and in the interest of a healthy<br />
planet, our corporate food system<br />
badly needs to be repaired.<br />
In One Size Fits None, Anderson<br />
crisscrosses the country, visiting<br />
the intrepid farmers who practice<br />
precisely the sort of farming techniques<br />
that will serve as models for<br />
that needed reform. Raised on a<br />
ranch in South Dakota, she knows<br />
all the arguments that conventional<br />
farmers use to convince themselves<br />
that a switch to more enlightened<br />
techniques would be too difficult, too<br />
expensive, and too little too late.<br />
At first, Anderson was skeptical<br />
herself. But then she discovered<br />
farms with soil that regenerates<br />
each season and<br />
farmers revitalized by<br />
newfound success. In<br />
the Dakotas, Anderson<br />
met Phil and Jill<br />
Jerde and learned<br />
how their Great<br />
Plains Buffalo<br />
Company<br />
succeeds without the<br />
brutal practices of an industrial<br />
feedlot. With a herd<br />
of one thousand bison<br />
and 10 children under<br />
their keep, the Jerdes are<br />
prime examples of farmers actively<br />
pursuing a regenerative agricultural<br />
ideal.<br />
— Previously published in<br />
Forward Magazine.<br />
Stephanie Anderson is an instructor<br />
of English at Florida Atlantic University.<br />
She grew up on a ranch, has<br />
worked as a writer and photographer<br />
for the humanitarian aid organization<br />
Cross International, and served as an<br />
editor for the agricultural newspaper<br />
Tri-State Neighbor in South Dakota.<br />
Anderson’s work has appeared in<br />
Grist Journal, Sweet, The Chronicle<br />
Review, The Rumpus, and Kudzu<br />
House Quarterly.<br />
Stephanie Anderson will be in conversation<br />
with Mary Saunders Bulan,<br />
Ph.D., Professor of Environmental<br />
Studies and Sustainable Agriculture<br />
Programs Director at Warren Wilson<br />
College.<br />
Works In Translation Book Club<br />
Join host and Malaprop’s Bookstore<br />
Manager Justin Souther to<br />
discuss writers—and their<br />
literature—in translation,<br />
and the cultural, political<br />
and artistic influences that<br />
shape them.<br />
This month’s pick is False<br />
Calm: A Journey Through the<br />
Ghost Towns of Patagonia by Maria<br />
Sonia Cristoff, translated by Katherine<br />
Silver.<br />
IF<br />
YOU<br />
GO<br />
One Size Fits None by<br />
Stephanie Anderson<br />
Book signing and reading<br />
Wednesday, <strong>March</strong> 6, 6pm<br />
Works In Translation Book Club<br />
False Calm: A Journey Through the<br />
Ghost Towns of Patagonia<br />
Thursday, <strong>March</strong> 28, 7pm<br />
Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café<br />
55 Haywood St.<br />
Downtown Asheville<br />
(828) 254-6734<br />
www.malaprops.com<br />
MARCH <strong>2019</strong><br />
PARTIAL LISTING<br />
We host numerous Readings &<br />
Book clubs, as well as Salons!<br />
Visit www.malaprops.com<br />
READINGS & BOOK SIGNINGS<br />
“How Much The Heart Can<br />
Hold” - Zelda Fitzgerald<br />
Readings and Trivia<br />
3/10 - 3pm<br />
Omari Scott Simmons<br />
presents Potential on the<br />
Periphery: College Access<br />
from the Ground Up<br />
3/12 - 6pm<br />
Jessica Wilkerson presents<br />
To Live Here, You Have to<br />
Fight, in conversation with<br />
Ronni Lundy and Erica<br />
Locklear 3/13 - 7pm<br />
Jessica Salfia and Emily<br />
Hilliard present 55 Strong:<br />
Inside the West Virginia<br />
Teachers’ Strike 3/15 - 7pm<br />
Allan Wolf presents The Day<br />
the Universe Exploded My<br />
Head: Poems to Take You into<br />
Space and Back Again<br />
03/16 - 4pm<br />
Frances Mayes presents See<br />
You in the Piazza 3/20 - 6pm<br />
HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY<br />
55 Haywood St.<br />
(828) 254-6734 • 800-441-9829<br />
Monday-Saturday 9AM to 9PM<br />
Sunday 9AM to 7PM<br />
VOL. 22, NO. 07 — MARCH <strong>2019</strong> | RAPIDRIVERMAGAZINE.COM | RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE | 25
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