Though few shared his views at the time, Wallace favored natural resource planning on a national scale, with decisions based on conservation and long-term social values rather than on market prices. ... Also from this era, self-labeled experimental farmer, utopian social critic and best-selling author Edward Faulkner is remembered for his 1943 book Plowman's Folly and his ideas about permanent agriculture. ... He devised a plan to heal the earth from past abuses through a concept he called trash farming or trash mulch culture. ... He proclaimed that to be "organic" was more than just a wa...

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