The earth knows my name : food, culture, and sustainability in the gardens of ethnic Americans /
Patricia Klindienst.
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2006.
- xxviii, 246 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Prologue : Vanzetti's garden -- Renewal : Four Sisters Garden at Monte Vista Farm, Tesuque Pueblo and Española, New Mexico -- Freedom : the gardens of two Gullah elders, St. Helena Island, South Carolina -- Place : a Polish American vintner and a Japanese American berry farmer, Bainbridge Island, Washington -- Refuge : the Khmer Growers, Amherst, Massachusetts -- Memory : two gardeners from Mussolini's Italy, Redwood City, California, and Leveret, Massachusetts -- Peace : a Punjabi garden, Fullerton, California -- Community : the urban gardens of Nuestras Raíces, South Holyoke, Massachusetts -- Justice : a Yankee farmer and sacred Indian corn, Stonington, Connecticut -- Epilogue : A garden democracy.
Gardeners--United States--Interviews. Farmers--United States--Interviews. Ethnic groups--United States--Biography. Gardens--United States. Traditional farming--United States. Immigrants--History.--United States