Peterson Molly M. - Growing tomorrow: a farm-to-table journey in photos and recipes: behind the scenes with 18 extraordinary sustainable farmers who are changing the way we eat

PRAISE FOR

GROWING TOMORROW

A beautiful, bountiful tribute to the local heroes who are sustaining Americas proud farming heritage and putting fresh, organic food on our tables. Between the captivating farm profiles and the fresh-from-the-field recipes, Growing Tomorrow is sure to inspire future generations of farmers and home cooks everywhere.

BRENT RIDGE and JOSH KILMER-PURCELL from The Fabulous Beekman Boys and Beekman1802.com

Forrest Pritchard is a farmer and talented writer giving voice to an important segment of our food world. With Growing Tomorrow, Pritchard trains his storytelling talents on his fellow farmers for what amounts to a portrait of America in all its extraordinary bounty. Were lucky to have this farmer-writer in our midst.

MICHAEL RUHLMAN, author of The Soul of a Chef: The Pursuit of Perfection

Growing Tomorrow is the book that will inspire farmers, chefs, and consumers to do the right thing. A firsthand look at why sustainable farming matters and the people who are making a difference on a daily basis.

SEAN BROCK, New York Timesbestselling author of Heritage and chef of McCradys, Husk, and Minero

Gorgeous, delectable, and fascinating, Growing Tomorrow provides food for the body, mind, and soul. Engaging to read, easy to cook from, delicious to eat, this is more than a cookbook; it is a meditation on the things that give us life.

GARTH STEIN, New York Timesbestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain and A Sudden Light

The next best thing to visiting each of the intriguing farms. Did I hear someone say road trip?

MARIAN BURROS, former reporter for The New York Times and cookbook author

Like a flitting honey bee, master farmer/storyteller Forrest Pritchard dips our imagination into the sweet nectar of integrity farmers, pollinating our minds with petals of wisdom and practical application.

JOEL SALATIN, owner of Polyface Farm (featured in Michael Pollans The Omnivores Dilemma and the documentary Food, Inc.), and author of You Can Farm

Who says that nobody is going into farming these days or that you cant make a living growing foods organically and sustainably? Certainly not the 18 pioneers described in this lovely, inspiring book. Forrest Pritchard chose farmers of diverse cropsmushrooms, honey, lobsters, avocados, grain, beef, and moreand tells the personal stories of how they created lives of deep productivity and satisfaction. Any aspiring farmer or consumer of freshly farmed products will get great pleasure from reading this book and admiring its photos.

MARION NESTLE, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, and author of What to Eat

The faces of the sustainable farming movement in the US are as diverse as the crops theyre growing. Forrest Pritchard has done an incredible job of telling the stories of the people who are changing the food system, one farm at a time, across the country. And with recipes from each of the farms he visits, Pritchard reminds readers how delicious food grown by people who care about the Earth can be. Pritchard is following in the steps of Wendell Berry, intertwining farming and philosophy to provide a roadmap for where the food movement is headed.

DANIELLE NIERENBERG, President of Food Tank

From goat cheese to wild rice, Growing Tomorrow will show you how todays farmers are producing healthy, delicious food using old-fashioned methods and modern technologiestruly the food we will be eating tomorrow. We get all this in Forrest Pritchards wonderful writing style and Molly Petersons beautiful photographs. And the recipes are yummy!

SALLY FALLON MORELL, President of The Weston A. Price Foundation and author of Nourishing Traditions

Forrest has come into full bloom. The stories he shares in Growing Tomorrow create a generous and honest exhibit on the enterprise of food and the human spirit. His eloquent prose echoes both Stegner and Steinbeck in its ability to coax from the land an understanding of our relationship with it.

BARTON SEAVER, chef and author of For Cod and Country

Growing
Tomorrow

A Farm-to-Table Journey in Photos and Recipes

Behind the Scenes with 18 Extraordinary Sustainable Farmers Who Are Changing the Way We Eat

FORREST PRITCHARD

Photographs by Molly M. Peterson
Foreword by Deborah Madison

GROWING TOMORROW: A Farm-to-Table Journey in Photos and Recipes

Copyright 2015 Forrest Pritchard

Foreword 2015 Deborah Madison

Photographs copyright 2015 Molly M. Peterson, except photo of Barry Staver, used with permission of photographer

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pritchard, Forrest.

Growing tomorrow : a farm-to-table journey in photos and recipes : behind the scenes with 18 extraordinary sustainable farmers who are changing the way we eat / Forrest Pritchard ; photography by Molly Peterson.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61519-284-7 (cloth) -- ISBN 978-1-61519-285-4 (ebook)

1. Sustainable agriculture--United States. 2. Local foods--United States. 3. Family farms--United States. 4. Farm produce--United States. 5. Cooking, American. I. Peterson, Molly (Molly M.) II. Title.

S494.5.S86P755 2015

338.10973--dc23

2015003785

ISBN 978-1-61519-284-7

Ebook ISBN 978-1-61519-285-4

Cover design by Christopher King

Cover photographs by Molly M. Peterson

Map illustration for endpapers by Daniel Christensen