Leslie Bennett -- Erin Benzakein -- Eliza Blank -- Jinny Blom -- Carol Bornstein -- Marion Brenner -- Cynthia (Cindy) Ann Brown -- Yolanda Burrell -- Ava Bynum -- Ariella Chezar -- Marina Christopher -- Peggy Cornett -- Philippa Craddock -- Karen Daubmann -- Andrea DeLong-Amaya …
The Earth in Her Hands celebrates the important contributions women make to the wide world of plants--in the fields of horticulture, environmental science, botany, floral design, farming, landscape architecture, herbalism, food justice, and more.
The Earth in Her Hands celebrates the important contributions women make to the wide world of plants--in the fields of horticulture, environmental science, botany, floral design, farming, landscape architecture, herbalism, food justice, and more.
A profound shift is occurring among women working in agriculture - they are increasingly seeing themselves as farmers, not only as the wives or daughters of farmers. In this book, farm women in the northeastern United States describe how they got into farming and became success…
"Applying a feminist and environmentalist approach to her investigation of how the changing global economy affects rural women, Carolyn Sachs focuses on land ownership and use, cropping systems, and women's work with animals in highly industrialized as well as developing countri…