Here are some of the things we are reading as part of our research:
Emmett, Robert S. Cultivating Justice: A Literary History of U.S. Garden Writing.
Kincaid, Jamaica. My Garden (book).
Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
Kytle and Blain. Denmark Vesey’s Garden: slavery and memory in the cradle of the Confederacy.
Lawrence, Elizabeth. Through the Garden Gate.
Mackenzie, Annah. “Beyond Food: Community Gardens as Places of Empowerment.”
Peinhardt, Katherine. “Cultivating Place: Refugees and Urban Gardens in Baltimore”
Pollan, Michael. Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education.
Shopes, Linda. “What is Oral History?”
Snipstal, Blain. “Free the Land, and Us, Too! Agroecology and Popular Struggle: Building an ‘Agrarian’ Intersectional Movement.”
Westamacott, Richard. African-American gardens and yards in the rural South.
Wirzba, Norman. Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating.