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Main Title Restoring Eden : unearthing the agribusiness secret that poisoned my farming community /
Author Hilborn, Elizabeth D.,
Publisher Chicago Review Press,
Year Published 2023
OCLC Number 1348477707
ISBN 1641609389; 9781641609388
Subjects North Carolina--Environmental conditions ; Agriculture--Environmental aspects--North Carolina--History ; Nature--Effect of human beings on--North Carolina--History ; Environmental protection--North Carolina--History ; Agricultural chemicals--Environmental aspects ; NATURE--Environmental Conservation & Protection ; Ecology
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EKBM  GE155.N8H55 2023 Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC 11/21/2023
Collation xiii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220).
Contents Notes
The mystery -- Fieldwork -- Dazed and confused -- Empty nest -- Red zone -- Moving water -- Bees please (queen's dance) -- Harvest -- Bad blood -- Weight of evidence -- Our choice. "All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn watched as her family fruit farm of many years rapidly diminished, suffering from a lack of bees and other insects. The plentiful wildlife, so abundant just weeks before, was gone. Everything was still, silent. As an environmental scientist trained to investigate disease outbreaks, she rose to the challenge. Step by step, day by day, despite facing headwinds from skeptical neighbors, environmental experts, and agricultural consultants, she assembled information. Her observations provided a framework, a timeline to explain the evidence she'd collected. The chemicals found in her water samples showed beyond any doubt that not only her farm but her greater farming community was at risk from toxic chemicals that traveled with rainwater over the land, into water, and deep within the soil. Hilborn was given a front row seat to the insect apocalypse. Even as a scientist, she'd been unaware of the risks to life from some common agricultural chemicals. Her goal was to protect her farm and the animals who lived there. But first she had to convince her rural neighbors of the risk to their way of life, too"--Back cover.