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With interest in home gardening at an all-time high and concerns about food production and safety making headlines, Farm Together Now explores the current state of grassroots farming in the U.S. Part oral history and part treatise on food politics, this fascinating project is an introduction to the many individuals who are producing sustainable food, challenging public policy, and developing community organizing efforts. With hundreds of photographs and a foreword from New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, Farm Together Now will educate, inspire, and cultivate a new wave of modern agrarians.
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This interesting volume on alternative and small-scale farming showcases twenty farms across the United States that exemplify the wide range of methodologies, motivations, and ideologies at work in modern socially conscious local and sustainable food movements. Presented as a series of interviews with farmers, the work discusses both for profit and non-profit organizations located in urban and rural settings and explores the produce, lifestyles, politics, and environmental stewardship of the small farms at the forefront of the movement. Chapters include numerous color photographs as well as background and statistical information about each of the farms. Franceschini is a professor of art at the University of San Francisco and Tucker is a documentary film maker based in Chicago. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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