The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus: The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream
ISBN: 9780816685479
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: American Energy Farming Systems; Horticultural products industry -- United States;

In 1981, near the end of AmericaOCOs second post-World War II energy crisis, and at the onset of the nations most recent farm crisis, American Energy Farming Systems began to sell and distribute what it deemed a OC providential plantOCO destined to be a new and saving cropOCo the Jerusalem Artichoke. This volume recounts this story of the bizarre intersection of evangelical Christianity, a mythical belief in the powers of a new crop, and the depression of the U.S. farm economy in the 1980s."


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