- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Into the Wildness
- 1 Wildfire News
- 2 Conundrum and Continuum
- 3 No Word
- 4 The Edge of Anomaly
- 5 Order versus Wildness
- 6 Biomimicry
- 7 Notes on “Up at the Basin”
- 8 Listening to the Forest
- 9 The Working Wilderness
- 10 The Hummingbird and the Red Cap
- 11 Losing Wildness for the Sake of Wilderness
- 12 Inhabiting the Alaskan Wild
- 13 Wilderness in Four Parts, or Why We Cannot Mention My Great-Grandfather’s Name
- 14 Wild Black Margins
- 15 Healing the Urban Wild
- 16 Building the Civilized Wild
- 17 Cultivating the Wild on Chicago’s South Side
- 18 Toward an Urban Practice of the Wild
- 19 The Whiskered God of Filth
- 20 The Akiing Ethic
- 21 On the Wild Edge in Iceland
- 22 The Story Isn’t Over
- 23 Cultivating the Wild
- 24 Earth Island
- Epilogue Wild Partnership
- Permissions
- About the Contributors
- Index
Order versus Wildness
Order versus Wildness
- Chapter:
- (p.43) 5 Order versus Wildness
- Source:
- Wildness
- Author(s):
Joel Salatin
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
The idea that wildness and good farming must be segregated speaks to a fundamental breakdown in ecological understanding. Mosaic vegetation patterns through mob grazing and pasture cropping maintain year-round blossoms for pollinators and habitat for spiders and field mice. Building farm ponds as additional riparian areas stimulates overall hydration and wildlife habitat. Clean fencerows, clean tillage, and manicured urban lawns present a graphic manifestation of the order versus wildness debate, a debate between hubris and humility. Carving our nest into spaces for human participation and human abandonment precludes enjoying the symbiosis that an integrative alternative offers. This chapter argues that good farming stimulates wildness, just like strategic order stimulates wildlife.
Keywords: riparian, pasture cropping, milkweed, mob grazing, symbiosis
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Into the Wildness
- 1 Wildfire News
- 2 Conundrum and Continuum
- 3 No Word
- 4 The Edge of Anomaly
- 5 Order versus Wildness
- 6 Biomimicry
- 7 Notes on “Up at the Basin”
- 8 Listening to the Forest
- 9 The Working Wilderness
- 10 The Hummingbird and the Red Cap
- 11 Losing Wildness for the Sake of Wilderness
- 12 Inhabiting the Alaskan Wild
- 13 Wilderness in Four Parts, or Why We Cannot Mention My Great-Grandfather’s Name
- 14 Wild Black Margins
- 15 Healing the Urban Wild
- 16 Building the Civilized Wild
- 17 Cultivating the Wild on Chicago’s South Side
- 18 Toward an Urban Practice of the Wild
- 19 The Whiskered God of Filth
- 20 The Akiing Ethic
- 21 On the Wild Edge in Iceland
- 22 The Story Isn’t Over
- 23 Cultivating the Wild
- 24 Earth Island
- Epilogue Wild Partnership
- Permissions
- About the Contributors
- Index
