Winne, Mark. Closing the Food Gap.
This book is a fantastic resource that will be very helpful to my research. There is a chapter on farming, and “growing your own” as they call it. Basically it begins with a woman telling her story of how she began gardening and then became serious about it and has been a gardener for 34 years now. She has run over 10 farms in that time and she explains how each one had its own trials and tribulations.
This is going to be such a great resource because I have not been able to go visit an actual farm. I will be able to use the information she provided in this chapter as a sort of interview to get details of one persons experience with local farming. This is exactly the information I have been searching for and hope to find more of before our presentation next week. Although the story in this chapter is not about a woman from
1 comment:
This sounds like a really good and useful source. Even though the woman isn't from Syracuse, you're right that the experience is probably pretty similar. I think this is going to provide a really base and introduction for our project, and it will help other people to better understand the issue.
Post a Comment