Klindienst, Patricia.

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.

0807085626 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780807085622 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2005030607


Klindienst, Patricia.


Gardeners--United States--Interviews.
Farmers--United States--Interviews.
Ethnic groups--United States--Biography.
Gardens--United States.
Traditional farming--United States.
Immigrants--History.--United States

SB455 / .K55 2006

635.092/273

SB455 / .K55 2006