Tomorrow's Harvest
A view of Perry-winkle Farm (Cathy Jones and Michael Perry) in Chatham County, NC.
In my present book project, tentatively
titled Tomorrow's Harvest, I am exploring the links between
sustainable agriculture and sustainable community in the Piedmont of
North Carolina. North Carolina has perhaps the most vibrant sustainable
agriculture community in the southern United States. Tomorrow’s
Harvest will focus on the cultural conditions that have fostered
the growth of sustainable agriculture in North Carolina and how, in
turn, the development of sustainable agriculture has affected various
North Carolina communities.
This is a search for a living, breathing,
rural community — not an urban lifestyle transplanted into the
country, nor a family farming model "preserved" by government
programs and cultural stereotypes, but something that is new and yet
recognizably rural. I end Garden
Spot with the question hanging: is there a future for rural
America? Tomorrow's Harvest is an attempt to answer that question.
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