Authors

Beth Dooley has written several award-winning cookbooks. Her book The Perennial Kitchen offered “simple recipes for a healthy future” in the face of climate change, and her book The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen, coauthored with Sean Sherman, was recognized as the Best American Cookbook in 2018 by the James Beard Foundation. She is regarded as a beloved weekly columnist of food and travel for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, and she regularly appears on Minnesota Public Radio.

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Sam Knapp grew up in the woods near the shores of Lake Superior with little exposure to farm life. After earning degrees in physics and chemistry and starting down the career path of engineering, Sam caught the farming bug while working on a research farm in Sweden. He worked on vegetable farms in Sweden, Alaska, Michigan, and Wisconsin before starting his own Root Cellar Farm in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to earn extra income while completing a master’s degree in plant ecology. In 2020,…

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Sam Watts has a PhD in cancer research from the University of Southampton’s School of Medicine, where he worked for ten years. He has led large-scale NHS-funded cancer clinical trials in several leading hospitals, including Southampton General Hospital, Portsmouth’s Queen Alexandra Hospital and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Also a trained clinician of Ayurvedic and natural medicine, Sam founded Mind-Body Medical in 2018 to bring evidence-based and practical Ayurveda to those living in the UK and Europe. Mind-Body Medical has grown to…

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Becky Searle is an ecologist turned kitchen gardener. A self-taught designer, she has planned her own gardens from scratch. Her first garden as an adult was a tiny terrace outside a ground-floor flat. Since then, she has gardened in a 1960s house, a 1930s house and two new-build houses. Becky has a monthly feature in Kitchen Garden magazine, for which she was shortlisted for ‘Environmental Journalist of the Year’ by the Garden Media Guild in both 2022 and 2023. Becky also writes for Gardener’s…

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Michael Ableman, the cofounder and director of Sole Food Street Farms, is one of the early visionaries of the urban agriculture movement. He has created high-profile urban farms in Watts, California; Goleta, California; and Vancouver, British Columbia. Ableman has also worked on and advised dozens of similar projects throughout North America and the Caribbean, and he is the founder of the nonprofit Center for Urban Agriculture. He is the subject of the award-winning PBS film Beyond Organic narrated by Meryl Streep. His previous books include…

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Philip Ackerman-Leist is the author of Rebuilding the Foodshed, Up Tunket Road, and A Precautionary Tale. He and his wife, Erin, farmed in the South Tyrol region of the Alps and North Carolina before beginning their nineteen-year homesteading and farming venture in Pawlet, Vermont. With more than two decades of field experience working on farms, in the classroom, and with regional food systems collaborators, Philip’s work is focused on examining and reshaping local and regional food systems from the ground up.

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Vincanne Adams, PhD, is a professor and vice-chair of Medical Anthropology, in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Adams has previously published six books on the social dynamics of health, scientific knowledge and politics, including most recently, Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina (2013), and Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (2016). She is currently editor for Medical Anthropology Quarterly, the flagship journal for the Society for Medical Anthropology…

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Julia Alvarez has bridged the Americas many times. Born in New York and raised in the Dominican Republic, she is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist, author of world-renowned books in each of the genres, including How the Garc­a Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Something to Declare. She is the recipient of a 2013 National Medal of Arts. She lives on a farmstead outside Middlebury, Vermont, with her husband Bill Eichner. Visit Julia’s Web site https://www.juliaalvarez.com/ to find out…

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Aranya has been experimenting with what permaculture can do since his design course epiphany in 1996. In the years that followed he designed a collection of gardens, along with a few other non-land based designs, writing them all up to gain his Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design 2003. Since that time he’s followed a teaching pathway, that now involves delivering on average ten two-week design courses a year. Along the way he’s met many amazing people that give him hope for the future and who…

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David Asher is a natural cheesemaker, bringing the traditions of dairying, fermentation, and coagulation back into this age-old craft. A former farmer and goatherd from the west coast of Canada, David now travels widely, sharing a very old but also very new approach to cheese production with his Black Sheep School of Cheesemaking. Through teaching about the use of in-house starter cultures and natural rennet from calves and kids, David helps cheesemakers around the world reclaim their traditional cheeses. He also explores the connections between…

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