Back to the Roots

"Drawing on their narratives, Back to the Roots demonstrates that urban agriculture is a critical domain for explorations of, and challenges to, the long standing inequalities that shape both the materiality of cities and the bodies of their inhabitants."

— American Sociological Association - Environmental Sociology News
"A timely, creative, and comprehensive portrait of urban farming that offers a vivid and theoretically sophisticated account of how memory and meaning making shape cities. This is a must-read for those interested in urban agriculture, as well as those who care about memory, culture, and place."— Japonica Brown-Saracino, author of How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities
"Author: Health equity and racial justice grow alongside the vegetables at Massachusetts urban farms" by Carrie Healy— New England Public Media
"Back to the Roots lays bare the simultaneous and contradictory pull of love, community, tenacity, inequity, frustration, and hope that propels urban agriculture, as well as the critical need for greater accountability, inclusion, and equity."— Laura Lawson, author of City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America