Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer tells the story of my involvement in a small food co-op in Orange, Massachusetts, one of the poorest towns in one of the wealthiest American states. Part memoir and part history lesson, the book traces the tangled economic and political histories of the plantation, the factory, and the supermarket through the life of one New England town and tells the story of a rural community imagining and creating a viable alternative to the mainstream in a time of increasingly urgent need to build a more socially and ecologically just food system.

Available at Quabbin Harvest in Orange. Or you can buy it directly from the University of Massachusetts Press or your favorite independent bookseller. Or, you know, Amazon too, but it’s great to support the indies. And there’s also an audio version!

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Here’s how we settled on the title. And here’s a short video trailer: