Farmers Seeking Economic Stability While Protecting Deep Roots In Land They Love

Three farm families from different parts of the United States are profiled by Lisa M. Hamilton in her engaging book Deeply Rooted, Unconventional Farmers In The Age Of Agribusiness (Counterpoint, Berkeley, CA, 2009). The common threads are devotion to the land and innovative approaches to maintaining it, usually in the face of resistance from those too steeped in what passes for tradition to see how tradition is failing.