From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture
By (Author) Stephanie Anderson
The New Press
The New Press
26th February 2025
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Conservation of the environment
Cultural studies: food and society
Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries
630.82
Hardback
256
Width 139mm, Height 215mm, Spine 16mm
An award-winning authors powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in Americas food system
Its well known that our industrialized food system has abandoned priorities of nutrition and environmental stability in the pursuit of profita model designed to fail, especially as climate change escalates. Yet this groundbreaking book describes a glimmer of hope: a green wave of diverse female farmers, entrepreneurs, community organizers, scientists, and political leaders who operate with the shared goals of combatting climate change through regenerative agriculture, redesigning the food system, and producing healthy, socially responsible food.
From the Ground Up, by journalist and award-winning author Stephanie Anderson, offers a journey into the root causes of our unsustainable food chain, revealing its detrimental reliance on extractive agriculture, which depletes soil and water, produces nutritionally deficient food, and devastates communities and farmers. Anderson then delivers an uplifting, deeply reported narrative of women-led farms and ranches nationwide, supported by women-led investment firms, farmer training programs, restaurants, supply chain partners, and advocacy groups, all working together to create a more inclusive and sustainable world.
From the Ground Up sheds light on a set of inspiring journeys, with stories that will transform the way we think about the food chainone that can weather the storms of climate change, conflicts, and global pandemics.
Stephanie Anderson is the author of the award-winning One Size Fits None: A Farm Girls Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture. Her essays and short stories have appeared in outlets such as The Rumpus, TriQuarterly, Flyway, Midwestern Gothic, The Chronicle Review, and many others. She lives in South Florida.