I’m pleased to report that my agent Wendy Sherman sold my book-in-progress to Emily Loose at Free Press (Simon & Schuster). The book is called Soil & Sacrament: Four Seasons Among the Keepers of the Earth, and will be a narrative exploration of food, faith, and farming.
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Food is a sacred gift, not a system.
Let’s change our food system first by ridding ourselves of the word "system". Food is a sacred gift; it should not be saddled with the language of industrialization. A system is impossible to love, even one that’s organic or local. I have no alternative labels. I do have stories... As a writer, I tell stories of farmers and communities who recognize that the act of eating implies moral and ecological limits. From a church-supported community garden planting peace among neighbors, to Trappist monks growing oyster mushrooms for the glory of God, to a Kansas geneticist whose perennial wheat will one day revolutionize agriculture, I tell the stories of those whose work resists labels but whose lives embody a more holistic way to eat and live. I seek stories that provide glimpses of what the biblical writers called "shalom," that graced state of being that results from a right relationship between land and people, made whole through food. -
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