Fields of Plenty

A thoughtful memoir of farmer and educator Michael Ableman as he journeys across the country with his son to seek out passionate farmers and food artisans. His odyssey leads him to vegetable farmers, orchardists, cheese makers, grain growers and people who raise animals who are trying to answer questions of sustenance both philosophically and in practice. From a luscious fruit farm in California to an urban farm in Chicago to the site of his family dairy farm in Delaware, illustrated with full-colour photographs and including recipes, this beautifully layered memoir both reveals the personal stories of farming as well as illuminating the context and meaning of food in our culture today.