Restoring Eden: Unearthing The Agribusiness Secret That Poisoned My Farming Community

All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn watched as her family fruit farm of many years became increasingly diminished, suffering from a lack of bees. 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'd 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 toxins that travelled with rain water over the land and deep into the soil. Potent toxins that had wiped out small life as it flowed over the earth: 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 the chemicals coating corn seed. 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.

• | Author: Elizabeth D. Hilborn
• | Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 08, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 236 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1641609389
• | ISBN-13: 9781641609388