Letters To A Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, And Our Future

Author: Martha Hodgkins (Editor); Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture Staff (Compiled by)

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Letters to a Young Farmer is for everyone who appreciates good food grown with respect for the earth, people, animals, and community. Three dozen esteemed writers, farmers, chefs, activists, and visionaries address the highs and lows of farming life--as well as larger questions of how our food is produced and consumed--in vivid and personal detail. Barbara Kingsolver speaks to the tribe of farmers--some born to it, many self-selected--with love, admiration, and regret. Dan Barber traces the rediscovery of lost grains and foodways. Michael Pollan bridges the chasm between agriculture and nature. Bill McKibben connects the early human quest for beer to the modern challenge of farming in a rapidly changing climate. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree probes the politics of being a young farmer today. Farmer Mas Masumoto passes on family secrets to his daughter--and not-soon-forgotten stories to us all. Other contributors include Temple Grandin, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Wendell Berry, Rick Bayless, and Marion Nestle.

Author description

Martha Hodgkins is communications director at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. A former editor of Nature Conservancy magazine, she is the editor of In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places and The Field Guide to The Nature Conservancy. Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is a nonprofit farm and education centre located 25 miles north of New York City. Stone Barns Center operates an 80-acre, highly diversified, four-season farm and works on broad initiatives to create a healthy and sustainable food system. It is the setting for the celebrated Blue Hill at Stone Barns, under the direction of multiple James Beard award-winner, chef and co-owner Dan Barber.