理查德·梅比：当代不列颠最伟大的博物学作家
一部跨越园艺、文学、历史的典范之作！
杂草的传奇故事 野性从未走远……
杂草是某种类型的植物还是一种人类的思维？它们是生物品种还是文化的产物？它们为何存在？如果没有它们，世界将会怎样？英国博物学作家理查德•梅比讲述了在人类与自然的抗争过程中，四处流浪的杂草是如何被定义、被诠释、被限制和被不公平地对待，又是如何冲破文明的边界并影响人类对自然的看法。理查德•梅比一方面为自然界不被待见的植物辩护，一方面从历史、小说、诗歌、戏剧和民间故事中钩沉杂草与人类剪不断理还乱的关系。文明背后的野性从未走远，一部立足英国本土的杂草变迁史，却勾勒出全球化视野中一幅包罗万象的野生植物迁徙和狂欢的图景。

"Uncomfortably Happily by Yeon-sik Hong tells the story of its author’s decision to leave 21st-century Seoul and move with his wife to a small house on top of a mountain... Charming and perhaps unexpectedly complex."―Guardian, Best Graphic Novels of 2017
When the gentler pace and stillness of the countryside replace the roar of the city, but your editor keeps calling
With gorgeously detailed yet minimal art, cartoonist Yeon-Sik Hong explores his move with his wife to a small house atop a rural mountain, replacing the high-rent hubbub of Seoul with the quiet murmur of the country. With their dog, cats, and chickens by their side, the simple life and isolation they so desperately craved proves to present new anxieties. Hong paints a beautiful portrait of the Korean countryside, changing seasons, and the universal relationships humans have with each other as well as nature, both of which are sometimes frustrating but always rewarding.
Uncomfortably Happily is translated by American cartoonist Hellen Jo from the acclaimed Manhwa Today award-winning Korean edition.

22种秋冬蔬菜，111道特色料理
拥有30余年从业经验的蔬菜达人内田悟
教你如何用蔬菜打造令人回味无穷的美味菜肴
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※编辑推荐※
◆ 身为筑地御厨的店长，内田悟与蔬菜打了三十余年交道，他了解蔬菜的每个时节，每个部位，谙熟每种蔬菜 的最佳食用方法。
◆ 本书中介绍了很多蔬菜的处理和保存方法，让读者能够学习到真正合适的处理食材的方式。不同于其他蔬菜食谱，内田式烹饪法对蔬菜的不同部位进行不同的处理，力求获得最佳效果，让朴实的蔬菜展现惊人的美味。
◆ 简单细致的料理，蕴藏着三十余年经验积累下的不为人知的烹饪技巧。
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※内容简介※
秋冬蔬菜，你知道的有多少？
拥有三十余年从业经验的蔬菜达人内田悟，亲自解说什么蔬菜要在什么季节吃、要怎么洗、怎么切、怎么煮，更重要的是要怎么吃才会更好吃！
本书详细介绍了22种常见秋冬蔬菜的季节、特点、保存方式等基本常识，并根据蔬菜的口感和味道，教你该怎么利用不同部位制作出让人一吃就会上瘾的111道特色料理。
从今天开始就可以用到的秋冬蔬菜料理新技术，只要试过一次就会爱上它的内田式烹饪法。

Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that's taken hold throughout the UK and north America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine. Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have access to his hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters. Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted from The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this new book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses. Coleman offers clear, concise details on greenhouse construction and maintenance, planting schedules, crop management, harvesting practices, and even marketing methods in this complete, meticulous, and illustrated guide. Readers have access to all the techniques that have proven to produce higher-quality crops on Colemanis own farm. His painstaking research and experimentation with more than 30 different crops will be valuable to small farmers, homesteaders, and experienced home gardeners who seek to expand their production seasons. A passionate advocate for the revival of small-scale sustainable farming, Coleman provides a practical model for supplying fresh, locally grown produce during the winter season, even in climates where conventional wisdom says it ijust canit be done.i

◆日本Amazon、樂天Books★★★★★五星好評
◆書評網站＜讀書meter＞、＜Booklog＞百人留言推薦
山林圍抱，四季遞嬗；一貓一人，自給自足。
貓與漫畫家的鄉野同棲日記
喚起你我對生命、自然的反思與感動
不到一歲、未經世事而大無畏的三毛貓「南瓜」，被遺棄在五十嵐大介的家門口而成為了他家中的一份子，並隨著他從都市搬到群山圍繞的農村展開全新的生活。從小習慣了城市生活、可以說是在溫室裡長大的南瓜，面對截然不同的環境，牠竟從一隻「都市俗」的小貓脫胎換骨，在田野間來去自如，展現出了我們平常看不到的「貓的另一種可愛」——
「在城市裡以為南瓜性格乖順、不與人爭，到了田野牠的本能才被激發——爬樹、抓螃蟹難不倒牠，竟然還是個武功高強的捕鳥、捕鼠高手！與野生的松鼠、狐狸、蛇進行決鬥，遇到當地的貓來搶地盤，南瓜又有什麼樣出乎意料的反應？總是跑到屋頂上用很可憐的聲音喵喵叫，原來只是引誘主人陪牠玩的招數。就算刮風下雪，沒等到主人來接，南瓜還是不願意下來……」
透過五十嵐大介鏡頭般的畫筆，讓人時而擔心，時而好氣又好笑的南瓜，調皮任性、無辜慵懶的姿態躍然紙上，加上與鄉野間出現的許多動物朋友們的互動，我們才發現貓竟然也有這種自由奔放、活潑可愛的一面。田園風光鋪陳眼前，我們來到這座與世隔絕的小屋作客，走過了一趟由南瓜領路的鄉野小旅行。一本獨一無二的貓物語，邀請你暫時拋開生活繁雜，走入自然，享受一段無人打擾、有貓陪伴的鄉居時光。
【各界推薦】
◎EMILY（《我愛陳明珠》作者）
◎Leslie（《來～跟毛小孩聊天》作者、動物溝通師）
◎吳毅平（《當世界只剩下貓》作者）
◎周易正（行人文化實驗室總編輯）
◎張角倫 （《家有諧星貓，我是白吉》作者）
「抓螃蟹、獵小鳥、單挑大腹蛇，在田野間生活的南瓜，悠閒自在、驍勇善戰。原本是一隻生活在室內的『都市俗』，因為照護人搬到鄉下後，南瓜也很快的『本能覺醒』，開啟他的鄉野貓生。 看到南瓜能夠在大自然盡情奔跑、發揮本能，相較於城市中，只能關在室內、唯一娛樂是玩逗貓棒，悶到憂鬱症患了『舔毛症』的家貓，南瓜的生活，我想是所有貓咪的『究極夢幻life style』。看完書後，我想跟我一樣同為關在城市中的人類，一定也會跟著一起嚮往南瓜無拘無束的生活。」
——Leslie
「私以為，這是五十嵐大介最好看的散文漫畫。他與貓咪南瓜的生活故事，投射出每一個貓主人與貓的日常生活。那些無法言喻的情緒，都在他的畫筆下完美呈現。」
——周易正
「我想能夠在山上生活的猫狗，除了很勇敢，每天一定過得很有趣……貓，總是帶給我們無比的想像空間，牠可愛又神秘，不見貓影時，以為正在何處進行冒險的事！殊不知一個轉頭，原來是在自認為安全又隱密空間呼呼大睡。好像家中來了毛孩子後，人類都很會陷在自己的幻想中，覺得自己的貓狗很有事！其實他們是再單純不過的了，只是專注的做自己～看著作者五十嵐大介與南瓜的田野生活，一邊尋回兒時記憶中，南瓜就像小屁孩有著什麼都不怕的好奇心，那種單純雖漸漸消失，卻讓人想起都會哈哈笑。」
——張角倫
「在日本東北的農村中，家似乎一不小心就會被周圍的森林給吞食掉，而五十嵐與貓住在裏頭。這讓這本書成為了一本獨一無二的貓漫畫。一般來說這種漫畫會是以「飼主與貓」為最大的主題，但在這本書裡頭還存在著一個深奧無比、擁有各式各樣生物於其中生存著的森林，彷彿將他們的世界包圍了起來。看著被天氣搞得頭昏腦轉的作者，以及和松鼠、蛇、河蟹等生物互動的南瓜的樣子，應該能獲得「飼主和貓」之外更廣闊的視野吧。而南瓜完全不在意這些，初生之犢不畏虎，一步一步的擴展著活動範圍。光是看著這樣的南瓜千變萬化的表情以及成長（或可說是野生化）的樣子，就已經足以讓人感到非常溫暖充實。」
——Amazon讀者評論
「閑靜的鄉村風景……完全就是我與我家的貓的樣子。書中南瓜的樣子和飼主的心情非常感同身受！」
——樂天Books讀者評論

《小森林》是知名漫画家五十岚大介的经典作品，也是豆瓣高分电影《小森林》原著，讲述一位平凡女孩在田园生活中寻找自我的故事。
因为无法融入喧闹的城市生活，母亲又不告而别，女孩市子选择回到故乡小森。那是个位于深山中的小小村落。人们以农耕为生，遵循着日出而作、日落而息的传统习惯，生活虽不富裕，却过得充实快乐。市子开始耕种田地，操持家务，将大自然的恩赐做成一道道美味佳肴，那熟悉的味道唤起了对故乡的热爱和对母亲的怀念。
春耕，夏种，秋收，冬藏。四季更迭，在日复一日的劳作中，市子能否找到属于自己的生存之道？

To ensure food security and restore the health of the planet, we need to move beyond industrial agriculture and return to the practice of small-scale, local farming. This book describes the creation of a sustainable food system through a detailed case study of the successful year-round organic market garden and permaculture design at Pennsylvanias Three Sisters Farm. At the heart of Three Sisters is its bioshelter -- a solar greenhouse which integrates growing facilities, poultry housing, a potting room, storage, kitchen facilities, compost bins, a reference library and classroom area. The Bioshelter Market Garden examines how the bioshelter promotes greater biodiversity and is an energy efficient method of extending crop production through Pennsylvania's cold winter months. Both visionary and practical, this fully illustrated book contains a wealth of information on the application of permaculture principles. Some of the topics covered include: Design and management of an intensive market garden farm; Energy systems and bio-thermal resources; Ecological soil management and pest control; Wetlands usage; Solar greenhouse design and management. Whatever your gardening experience and ambitions, this comprehensive manual is sure to inform and inspire.

People like to believe in a past golden age of traditional English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. However, that countryside may have looked both more and less familiar than we imagine. Take todays startling yellow fields of rapeseed, seemingly more suited to the landscape of Van Gogh than Constable. They were, in fact, thoroughly familiar to fieldworkers in seventeenth-century England. At the same time, some features that would have gone unremarked in the past now seem like oddities. In the fifteenth century, rabbit warrens were specially guarded to rear rabbits as a luxury food for rich mens tables; whilst houses had moats not only to defend them but to provide a source of fresh fish. In the 1500s we find Catherine of Aragon introducing the concept of a fresh salad to the court of Henry VIII; and in the 1600s, artichoke gardens became a fashion of the gentry in their hope of producing more male heirs. The common tomato, suspected of being poisonous in 1837, was transformed into a household vegetable by the end of the nineteenth century, thanks to cheaper glass-making methods and the resulting increase in glasshouses. In addition to these images of past lives, Joan Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive our current interest in alternative forms of agriculture a glut of meat and cereal crops, changing dietary habits, the needs of medicine have striking parallels with earlier periods in our history. She warns us that todays decisions should not be made in a historical vacuum: we can find solutions to our current problems in the experience of people in the past.

借山而居第七年，终南山里有神仙。
2014年因借山而居火爆网络的青年诗人、画家二冬，在终南山的小院儿里诗意地栖居七年了。很多人以为他住个一年半载，就又逃离回都市了。他却说，有机会想搬到更深的山里去。为什么借山而居的七年里，二冬把隐居变成了长居？
山居的日子里，二冬把平凡琐碎的生活过得温暖而丰盈，一个人，两座院子，院外有山，院内有诗。自耕自食，一日三餐，四季轮回；写书画画，耕读酣睡；有猫有狗有鹅有鸡有鸭，也有诗书酒茶云雨雪。
在这本《山居七年》中，他以诗意的语言捕捉日常事物的闪光时刻，分享一蔬一果、鱼虫鸟兽倾吐的自然秘语，也记录下山居生活的惬意与无奈，以及写诗、作画、会友时的洞察和思考。

一个人与他挚爱的山野如何彼此交付？“山就是我的生命。没有山，我什么也不是。”
五十四岁的蓝迪·摩根森是巨杉和国王峡谷国家公园的传奇巡山员。他救助过许多身陷困境的登山者，也指引过许多游客领略山野 之美，是“行走在园区步道上最和善的灵魂”。
一九九六年七月二十一日，蓝迪在巡逻途中失踪。此后，园方出动一百名人力、五架 直升机、八组搜救犬，展开前所未有的搜救行动，却一无所获。蓝迪在优胜美地的山谷中出生长大，在巨杉和国王峡谷做过二十八年夏季山野巡山员、十多年冬季越野巡山员。山上有什么风吹草动，他立刻就会知晓。这让他的失踪愈加成谜。搜救结束五年后，国家公园的偏僻角落浮现出蛛丝马迹……
本书作者花费八年时间，遍访蓝迪的亲人至交，阅读他留下的文字书籍，为我们还原出一个山野之子的人生传奇。

【本书看点】
★一个有关传承、根源和归属的故事，一部21世纪的牧歌宣言。
——詹姆斯•里班克斯以隽永清新的文笔，带领读者体会牧羊人的一年，提供了一种独特的田园生活记录，这种生活深深扎根于我们大多数人已失去的土地。这是一个关于谋生的故事，关于他周围的人，他的童年，他的父辈和祖辈，在身边的世界快速变化的时候，他们仍然这样生活和经历着一切。许多故事都在讲述一个人如何为了离开而努力工作，而这个故事则是讲述了一些人，他们努力工作，是为了留下来。
★“造就湖区的是牧羊人一百万件看不见的工作的总和”
——在牧羊人的眼里，湖区与风景名胜并无关系。这里是他们世代生活的地方，无关田园风光，也无关诗情画意。放牧、收割、饲养……是日复一日琐碎忙碌的工作，是土地、天气和羊群，共同造就了湖区。他们的祖先一直这样生活，而他们也将继续这样生活下去。
★《纽约时报》、《卫报》2015年度最佳图书
——从乡村去到城市，我们称之为人生奋斗；从城市工作中脱身返回乡间，我们称之为远离尘嚣。但牧羊人的选择从无这些噱头。因为对阅读的热爱与对世界的好奇，他申请并入读牛津；因为对牧场生活与土地的热爱，他又回到湖区继续放牧。放牧的劳作，就是牧羊人的人生奋斗，而乡间与城市的区分，只是因为他们更加热爱自己的土地。
★特别精选32页彩色插图，呈现各色羊群、可爱的牧羊犬、精美的牧羊手杖、让人惊叹的湖区风光，以及牧羊人的五味生活。
【内容介绍】
这是一本牧羊人的生活回忆。
有些人的生活完全由自己创建，詹姆斯•里班克斯不是。他是牧羊人的长子，他的父亲也是牧羊人的长子，他的家族世世代代都在湖区生活和劳作，按季节和活计的需要来安排，几百年来都是如此。如果是维京人也许会理解他们的工作日常：夏天把羊放到山上，打理干草；秋季到市集上再重新补满羊群；冬天照顾羊群安然过冬；春天里羊羔出生，每个人都忙得晕头转向，羊群又重新回到山里。
来自古老乡村的这些现代讯息讲述了一个与土地唇齿相依的故事，描绘了一种很少被注意到但深刻塑造了历史的生活方式。詹姆斯•里班克斯以隽永清新的文笔，带领读者体会牧羊人的一年，提供了一种独特的田园生活记录，这种生活深深扎根于我们大多数人已失去的土地。这是一个关于谋生的故事，关于他周围的人，他的童年，他的父辈和祖辈，在身边的世界快速变化的时候，他们仍然这样生活和经历着一切。许多故事都在讲述一个人如何为了离开而努力工作，而这个故事则是讲述了一些人，他们努力工作，是为了留下来。
【媒体推荐】
在这个越来越注重流动性和自我实现的时代，里班克斯在这本引人入胜的书里讲述了英格兰小型家族牧场的生活，也讲述了一个有关传承、根源和归属的故事。书中一切充满知识性的描述，因为蕴涵其中的热情和生机，都深深吸引着我们。
——《纽约时报》书评
他在强大而充满宁静冥想的字里行间，构筑了一部21世纪的牧歌宣言。它半是湖区放牧史，半是个人回忆录。精美绝伦！
——《星期日泰晤士报》
所有这些都配以完美的音调，像诉说一样流利，又准确地击中人心，在劳作与想象中毫不费力地切换。
——英国《卫报》
一本迷人的书……他继承了父祖辈和祖先们的使命，并敏锐地观察、讲述了定义放牧生活的季节节奏与仪式。
——《纽约时报》书评

Gabe Brown didn’t set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm. Brown―in an effort to simply survive―began experimenting with new practices he’d learned about from reading and talking with innovative researchers and ranchers. As he and his family struggled to keep the farm viable, they found themselves on an amazing journey into a new type of farming: regenerative agriculture.
Brown dropped the use of most of the herbicides, insecticides, and synthetic fertilizers that are a standard part of conventional agriculture. He switched to no-till planting, started planting diverse cover crops mixes, and changed his grazing practices. In so doing Brown transformed a degraded farm ecosystem into one full of life―starting with the soil and working his way up, one plant and one animal at a time.
In Dirt to Soil Gabe Brown tells the story of that amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to our most pressing and complex contemporary agricultural challenge―restoring the soil. The Brown’s Ranch model, developed over twenty years of experimentation and refinement, focuses on regenerating resources by continuously enhancing the living biology in the soil. Using regenerative agricultural principles, Brown’s Ranch has grown several inches of new topsoil in only twenty years! The 5,000-acre ranch profitably produces a wide variety of cash crops and cover crops as well as grass-finished beef and lamb, pastured laying hens, broilers, and pastured pork, all marketed directly to consumers.
The key is how we think, Brown says. In the industrial agricultural model, all thoughts are focused on killing things. But that mindset was also killing diversity, soil, and profit, Brown realized. Now he channels his creative thinking toward how he can get more life on the land―more plants, animals, and beneficial insects. “The greatest roadblock to solving a problem,” Brown says, “is the human mind.”

每一个时节，都有花盛开。赏花是享受季节感的途径，可不知不觉间，我们忘记了很多花的花期。
日本园艺大师柳宗民认为，花只有在属于自己时间绽放，才能呈现出更美的一面；顺应四季养花、赏花，才能真正体悟到花与四季之美。在本书中他向读者介绍了春、夏、秋、冬四季的代表花卉：春分前后樱花最灿烂，樱花落尽又见杜鹃、铃兰、三色堇。梅雨季绣球浩浩荡荡，之后有胡枝子和石蒜送来秋的气息。石蒜红透后金桂飘香，深秋的茶梅能一直开到次年早春，是萧瑟冬日的一抹亮色……《四季有花》里既有科学的描述，也有植物文化的阐发，更有人与各种花草间发生的故事。笔触风趣幽默，并配有全彩手绘插图，是一部独具风韵的花草观赏笔记。

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins.
Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can't.
'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' - Guardian

在寒冷的冬星上，生活着一群无性人，他们可以自由选择自己的性别。在每月的一个特别日子，他们自由成为男人或女人。
一名星际联盟特使，被派往冬星，完成一个秘密使命。
然而，冬星上的一切——怪异的风俗、古老的传说、混乱的政局，无不冲击着特使固有的观念。
面对陌生的一切，孰是孰非，他该如何面对？
在宇宙尽头的陌生人身上，看到了另一个自己。
编辑推荐
◆ 不愧是世界幻想文坛的传奇女王！
◆ 6次雨果奖、6次星云奖、21次轨迹奖、世界奇幻奖、美国国家图书奖、美国文学杰出贡献奖、卡夫卡奖、纽伯瑞奖、号角书奖、小詹姆斯•提普翠奖！
◆ 美国科幻奇幻作家协会“大师”称号、作家与艺术家中的“在世传奇”、“奇幻小说三巨头”之一！
◆ 在宇宙尽头的陌生人身上，看到了另一个自己。
◆ 刘慈欣：《黑暗的左手》这本书很文学，但是对人性的描写多了一个角度，因为作品中一个人就有两个性别，这样的作品，对人性的揭露深刻多了。
◆ 《新闻周刊》：科幻小说的至高经典。
◆ 《时代周刊》：勒古恩笔下的角色复杂饱满，让人难忘。她的作品因其无穷的魅力而不凡。
◆ 《波士顿环球报》：勒古恩，一个伟大的小说家，创造了一个令我们重拾信心、卸下负担、回归自我的幻想世界。
◆ 《纽约时报》：勒古恩是美国当今科幻小说作家中数一数二的伟大作家。
◆《黑暗的左手》三部曲还包括以下精彩作品：
《失去一切的人》：理想不是一切，但失去理想如同失去一切。
《世界的词语是森林》：宇宙深处有一面镜子，可以看见真正的自己。
媒体评论
《黑暗的左手》这本书很文学，但是对人性的描写多了一个角度，因为作品中一个人就有两个性别，这样的作品，对人性的揭露深刻多了。
——刘慈欣
科幻小说的至高经典。
——《新闻周刊》
勒古恩笔下的角色复杂饱满，让人难忘。她的作品因其无穷的魅力而不凡。
——《时代周刊》
勒古恩，一个伟大的小说家，创造了一个令我们重拾信心、卸下负担、回归自我的幻想世界。
——《波士顿环球报》
勒古恩是美国当今科幻小说作家中数一数二的伟大作家。
——《纽约时报》

Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.
Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.
'A daring evocation of black British history... Sexy, punchy [and] fresh' Independent on Sunday on The Emperor's Babe

Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rights, has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy."
In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?"―and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives. The Education of an Idealist traces Power’s distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official. In 2005, her critiques of US foreign policy caught the eye of newly elected senator Barack Obama, who invited her to work with him on Capitol Hill and then on his presidential campaign. After Obama was elected president, Power went from being an activist outsider to a government insider, navigating the halls of power while trying to put her ideals into practice. She served for four years as Obama’s human rights adviser, and in 2013, he named her US Ambassador to the United Nations, the youngest American to assume the role.
A Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room and the world of high-stakes diplomacy. Humorous and deeply honest, The Education of an Idealist lays bare the searing battles and defining moments of her life and shows how she juggled the demands of a 24/7 national security job with the challenge of raising two young children. Along the way, she illuminates the intricacies of politics and geopolitics, reminding us how the United States can lead in the world, and why we each have the opportunity to advance the cause of human dignity. Power’s memoir is an unforgettable account of the power of idealism―and of one person’s fierce determination to make a difference.

When Bob Quinn was a kid, a stranger at a county fair gave him a few kernels of an unusual grain. Little did he know, that grain would change his life. Years later, after finishing a PhD in plant biochemistry and returning to his family’s farm in Montana, Bob started experimenting with organic wheat. In the beginning, his concern wasn’t health or the environment; he just wanted to make a decent living and some chance encounters led him to organics.
But as demand for organics grew, so too did Bob’s experiments. He discovered that through time-tested practices like cover cropping and crop rotation, he could produce successful yields—without pesticides. Regenerative organic farming allowed him to grow fruits and vegetables in cold, dry Montana, providing a source of local produce to families in his hometown. He even started producing his own renewable energy. And he learned that the grain he first tasted at the fair was actually a type of ancient wheat, one that was proven to lower inflammation rather than worsening it, as modern wheat does.
Ultimately, Bob’s forays with organics turned into a multimillion dollar heirloom grain company, Kamut International. In Grain by Grain, Quinn and cowriter Liz Carlisle, author of Lentil Underground, show how his story can become the story of American agriculture. We don’t have to accept stagnating rural communities, degraded soil, or poor health. By following Bob’s example, we can grow a healthy future, grain by grain.