By Janna Berger

A Crime Report

Review Of: Dr. Vandana Shiva’s “Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply”


Each sentence of renowned Indian activist Vandana Shiva’s book, “Stolen Harvest,” is the impassioned bark of an angered watchdog.

Ignorance Leads Well-Intentioned Writer to Believe Garden Education is Sharecropper Training

Review Of: Cultivating Failure January/February 2010 ATLANTIC MAGAZINE



Caitlin Flanigan is blatantly unaware of the difference between industrial agriculture and sustainable agriculture in her January/February 2010 article in the Atlantic, "Cultivating Failure."

Ethnic Diversity in the American Sustainable Agriculture Movement

Review Of: The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans By Patricia Klindienst

Since choosing to migrate to rural America with a sort-of "back-to-the-land" ethos, my community has decreased in ethnic diversity. The suburban neighborhood I grew up in had people of all different races, backgrounds, and religions but most everyone I've met in the "sustainable agriculture movement" in rural Illinois, Washington, Texas, Massachusetts and Wisconsin have been white with American, Christian heritage. I've encountered many organic farms owned by white folk who employ Mexican immigrants but few owned by Mexicans, exacerbating my fear that environmentalist leadership suffers from cultural homogeny.