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Janisse Ray

Writer, naturalist, and activist Janisse Ray is a seed-saver, seed-exchanger, and seed-banker, and has gardened for twenty-five years. She is the author of several books, including Pinhook and Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a New York Times Notable Book. Ray is on the faculty of Chatham University's low-residency MFA program, and is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. She has won a Southern Booksellers Award for Poetry, a Southeastern Booksellers Award for Nonfiction, an American Book Award, the Southern Environmental Law Center Award for Outstanding Writing, and a Southern Book Critics Circle Award. She attempts to live a simple, sustainable life on a farm in southern Georgia with her husband, Raven Waters.

Photo: Raven Waters

    Janisse's Upcoming Events

    • Janisse Ray at Hartland Library
      , Hartland VT
      June 10, 2013, 6:00 pm

      Janisse will visit the Hartland Public Library in Vermont on June 10 @ 6pm to read from her latest work, "The Seed Underground."

    • Janisse Ray at Cullowhee Native Plant Conference
      , Cullowhee NC
      July 19, 2013, 12:00 am

      Janisse Ray will be speaking at the Cullowhee Native Plant Conference in Cullowhee, NC on July 19th, 2013.

    • (tentative) Janisse Ray at Middlebury College Cultural Harvest Festival
      131 S Main St, Middlebury VT
      September 18, 2013, 12:00 pm

      Janisse will be the keynote speaker at the Middlebury College Culture Harvest Festival and Symposium, to be held September 18-22. This year's theme is "Diversity in AgriCULTURE," to explore the importance of diversity on all scales of agriculture.

    • Janisse Ray at 2013 Wise Traditions Conference
      Weston Price Conference, Atlanta GA
      November 9, 2013, 9:00 am

      Janisse Ray will be speaking at the Weston A. Price Foundation's Wise Traditions Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on November 9th.

    Janisse's Books

    The Seed Underground

    A Growing Revolution to Save Food

    A journey to the front lines of food sovereignty and the quiet revolution to secure our food supply -- one seed at a time.

    Pinhook

    Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land

    Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land is a meditation on our fragmented wilderness, the power of wild places, and the ways we can begin to repair the damage we've done to the land and to ourselves.

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