BRINGING FOOD HOME: THE MAINE EXAMPLE introduces its readers to a whole new paradigm: “Your farmer is an important professional in your life!” It weaves together the narrative derived from about 100 interviews with Maine’s farmers, gardeners, fisherfolk, and local food advocates. The picture that emerges reveals how small family farming in Maine has developed into an integrated ecological, economic, educational, political, philosophical, and community building phenomenon. It shows how the local food community can help to bring healing to the earth, healthful food to our tables, sanity to our economics, sustainable prosperity to our communities, and a peaceable lifestyle to humanity. It celebrates family farmers, locavores, and the support community that is springing up around local agriculture in Maine. These people form a grassroots local food network that is beginning to flourish in Maine. Together, they are regenerating authentic community.
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Merry Stetson Hall has long taught the art of writing. She received a PhD in English Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo, so she has intensive training as a qualitative researcher, gathering real-life information and stories from her sources. A small inheritance allowed her to retire early, foregoing an academic career teaching English education, to pursue her true passion: writing. Involvement in permaculture, a local Community Supported Agriculture farm, and Maine’s Common Ground Fair inspired Merry to write Bringing Food Home: The Maine Example. They moved her to use her writing talents, education, and experience to share her research about how an alternative, resilient community, economy, ecology, and ethic are growing up in Maine around sustainable local agriculture. She is also involved in creating, with her husband, Burl, a family homestead for their children and grandchildren in a developing ecovillage.
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