Lisa Hamilton will read from Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness.
Hamilton’s work tells the real-life stories of three modern farmers: a dairyman in Texas who wages a one-man war against agribusiness corporations; a tenth-generation rancher in New Mexico attempting to revivify farming’s centrality in his community; and a North Dakota family pioneering new varieties of plants that work against climate change and the dominance of patented GMOs.
In a time when agribusiness and the global economy are making the rules, and when most people of the land are striving to be obedient, these people have had the courage to use their own intelligence in their own places. They have been appropriately rewarded for their independence, and readers of this book will be rewarded also. As for me, when I read of the Podoll family’s thinking about local adaptation and their effort ‘to get the maximum from the minimum,’ I wanted to stand up and shout.
— from a letter to the author by Wendell Berry
