Reaping What She Sows
Reaping What She Sows: How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System
With in-depth, on-the-ground reporting, Nancy Matsumoto introduces readers to the women changemakers who are building local and regional supply chains, from the maverick farmers, millers, and bakers bringing back local grain economies; the brewers, distillers, and winemakers who are regenerating land and ecosystems; indigenous and diasporic seed savers, and many more changemakers.
Reaping What She Sows offers a blueprint for what eating enjoyably, regeneratively, and ethically looks like today. Essential for those who are concerned about climate change, their own health, and the lack of choice and transparency in the global food supply chain.
Praise
“While the rural, landowning male American farmer has dominated the landscape of farm nonfiction, Nancy draws from diverse and rich journalistic experiences to collect the voices of urgently needed female changemakers in key roles of the food system. She situates her work within an intersectional framework of colonialism, globalization, and corporate consolidation, and shares with eaters and food activists everywhere valuable lessons from the women at the forefront of agriculture system change, who are creating a healthier, more climate resilient “alt food” supply chain. There’s no better time than now for this book. . . and there is no better person to write about this topic."
— Dan Barber, chef and co-owner, Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, New York, and Family Meal at Blue Hill in Manhattan; author, The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food.
“Women play enormously important roles in food systems and in the food movement, but are often overlooked. Matsumoto brings women out of the shadows and highlights the efforts of a wide diversity of women in the United States and in low-resource countries throughout the world to create food systems healthier for people and the planet."
— Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University Emerita
"Behind words like 'organic' and 'regenerative' is a vast network of women who are reimagining agriculture through a rugged mix of ingenuity and sweat equity. Nancy Matsumoto introduces us to these fascinating leaders and the urgent movement they are building for a more just and sustainable food system."
—Liz Carlisle, author of Healing Grounds and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara