Reaping What She Sows

By Nancy Matsumoto

When the Covid-19 pandemic ripped through global food supply chains, it threatened the livelihoods of farmers, created shortages in supermarkets, and revealed a startling truth: our industrialized food system is broken. To survive, we may have to change the way we buy and eat food entirely.

A bold idea began to take hold: What if we could return to a time when our needs were met by the farmers and providers in our own communities, rather than a Big Food system that favors profit above all else?

Through in-depth, on-the-ground reporting, Nancy Matsumoto shows readers how we can divest ourselves from the industrial food complex, and introduces us to the women who are doing it right now. She shows us how women change makers are building out local and regional supply chains to combat the destructive effects of Big Food: from the founder of a women-led rice cooperative who is fighting Black land loss, to the Indigenous women who own and operate the first kelp hatchery on the American East Coast, and more.

Reaping What She Sows shows what eating enjoyably, sustainably, and ethically looks like today. It is essential for those who are concerned about the climate and the lack of transparency in the global food supply chain, and who want to make an immediate, positive change to their own lives.

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