{"product_id":"the-holy-earth-the-background-books","title":"The Holy Earth (The Background Books)","description":"x, 117 pp. In 1915, Liberty Hyde Bailey’s book The Holy Earth was first published as part of his series of “Background Books.” Bailey, a botanist and horticulturist, wrote this series as a call for the care of the earth as a holy and divine creation, a responsible and cooperative participation with the earth via agriculture and a concern for the increasing separation between people and the land, the backgrounds, as he names them. This book, then, makes the argument for local culture to use local nature as its measure: “the creation…is the norm.” Using nature as measure, though, the land and all its inhabitants must be understood as parts of a creation, so that “[the farmer] must handle all his materials, remembering man and remembering God. A man cannot be a good farmer unless he is a religious man.”","brand":"The Christian Rural Fellowship","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20537113804870,"sku":"2280251","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2280251.jpg?v=1571426340","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/the-holy-earth-the-background-books","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}