Tag: Reviews

Wild About Weeds March 2020 By Jack Wallington Laurence King Publishing, 2019 176 pages, hardcover, $24.99 This book may make you stop cringing at the word “weed” (and even “invasive”) and enable you to consider some plants in a different light. Landscape garden designer and garden writer Jack Wallington profiles over 50 weeds and ways

The New American Farmer Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability March 2020 By Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern MIT Press, 2019 214 pages, paperback, $30 Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern recounts the stories of new Latino/a farmers who have miraculously managed, despite many obstacles, to move from farmworkers to farm owners in the United States. Of the dozens of farmers

Where Have All the Bees Gone? Pollinators in Crisis March 2020 By Rebecca E. Hirsch Twenty-First Century Books, 2020 104 pages, library bound, $37.32 Bees are disappearing, and not just honey bees. Bumblebee populations are in decline, too. For those of us who like to eat, this is a problem because bees pollinate 75 percent

Ending the War on Artisan Cheese March 2020 By Catherine W. Donnelly, Ph.D. Chelsea Green, 2019 224 pages, paperback, $24.95 “It’s terrifying to think that, with the stroke of a pen, the FDA could wipe out centuries of traditional [cheesemaking] practice. It’s even more frightening to think that this could be accomplished through the incorrect

Modified March 1, 2020 Produced and directed by Aube Giroux, Peas in a Pod Films, Inc., 2017 “Modified” follows the personal and poignant mother-daughter journey into the world of genetically engineered foods. Filmed over 10 years (including in Maine) and anchored in Giroux’s relationship with her mother (a gardener and food activist who battled cancer during