{"product_id":"earth-knows-my-name-food-culture-and-sustainability-in-the-gardens-of-ethnic-americans","title":"Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eEarth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePatricia Klindienst\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780807085622\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBeacon Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e280\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eWhy have we tamed the history of gardening in America? Patricia Klindienst asks in \"The Earth Knows My Name.\" We are a democracy of gardeners yet, with few exceptions, the garden is presented as the province of the privileged and the white. Garden writing tends to exclude the stories of the ethnic peoples who have shaped our landscape for centuries. As a result, the idea of the garden has been stripped of its cultural weight. \u003cbr\u003e\"The Earth Knows My Name\" speaks directly to this gap in our understanding, exploring the deeper implications of what it means to cultivate a garden and to grow one's own food. \u003cbr\u003eThe fifteen gardens presented in \"The Earth Knows My Name\" have all been fashioned by people usually thought of as other Americans: Native Americans, immigrants, and ethnic peoples who were here long before our national boundaries were drawn, including Hispanics of the Southwest, descended from the Conquistadors, and Gullah gardeners of South Carolina, descendants of West African slaves. All of these gardeners straddle two cultures-mainstream America and their culture of origin. Their stewardship of the land is an expression of the desire to preserve their heritage against all that threatens it. And so each garden becomes an island of hope and offers a model, on a truly sustainable scale, of a restorative ecology that renders justice to both the land and the people who cultivate it.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans | Patricia Klindienst | Hardcover | 9780807085622 | Used: Very Good | Food Writing 1729959 (temp: 17)","offer_id":48167764099224,"sku":"1729959","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51xES45aGpL.jpg?v=1771953972","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/earth-knows-my-name-food-culture-and-sustainability-in-the-gardens-of-ethnic-americans","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}