Booklist

A collection of narratives that discusses how the making of gardens and the growing of food helped ethnic and immigrant families including Native American, Hispanic, and Gullah gardeners of the Sea Islands maintain their cultural heritage in America.

Prologue. Vanzetti's garden -- Renewal : Four Sisters Garden and Monte Vista Farm, Tesque Pueblo and Española, New Mexico -- Freedom : the gardens of Two Gullah Elders, St. Helena Island, South Carolina -- Place : a Polish American vintner and a Japanese American berry farmer, Bainbridge Island, Washington -- Refuge : the Khmer Growers, Amherst, Massachusetts -- Memory : twoItalian gardeners from Mussolini's Italy, Redwood City, California, and Leveret, Massachusetts -- Peace -- a Punjabi garden, Fullerton, California -- Community : the urban gardens of Nuestra Raíces, South Holyoke, Massachusetts -- Justice : A Yankee farmer and sacred Indian corn, Stonington, Connecticut -- Epilogue. A garden democracy.

Adult