This article proposes permaculture, an ecological alternative to industrial agriculture, as a way to design first-year composition and community literacy classes. Firs[...]

This article looks at the various ways that communities can be "read" through their cookbooks. Recipes and collections can reveal much about communities, including sha[...]

Many of the agricultural literacies engendering twentieth-century farming practices and shaping contemporary concepts of food and nutrition in the United States arose [...]

Almost by definition, resisting the insidious convenience of the mainstream food supply requires persistence. This is especially true for food projects requiring ferme[...]

In this article we describe La Escuelita Afterschool Program, an interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, after-school literacy partnership on the U.S.–Mexico border. T[...]

In the face of the $44 billion market—and rising—for foods labeled as “natural” (despite any formal regulatory oversight on the use of this term), this article examine[...]

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