Row by Row: Talking With Kentucky Gardeners - Brossura

Black, Katherine J.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0804011621 ISBN 13: 9780804011624

Casa editrice: Swallow Pr, 2015

Riassunto

For two and a half years, Katherine J. Black crisscrossed Kentucky, interviewing home vegetable gardeners from a rich variety of backgrounds. Row by Row: Talking with Kentucky Gardeners is the result, a powerful compilation of testimonies on the connections between land, people, culture, and home.

The people profiled here share a Kentucky backdrop, but their life stories, as well as their gardens, have as many colors, shapes, and tastes as heirloom tomatoes do. Black interviewed those who grow in city backyards, who carve out gardens from farmland, and who have sprawling plots in creek bottoms and former pastures. Many of the gardeners in Row by Row speak eloquently about our industrialized food system&;s injuries to the land, water, and health of people. But more often they talk about what they are doing in their gardens to reverse this course.

Row by Row is as sure to appeal to historians, food studies scholars, and sustainability advocates as it is to gardeners and local food enthusiasts. These eloquent portraits, drawn from oral histories and supplemented by Deirdre Scaggs&; color photographs, form a meditation on how gardeners make sense of their lives through what they grow and how they grow it.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Katherine J. Black has been raising gardens since she was a child. She served as the curator of the University of Kentucky&;s Appalachian Collection from 1986 until her retirement in 2013.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Swallow Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804011621
• ISBN 13: 9780804011624
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 221
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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