Something Different for Asian History Month

How about a memoir by an Asian-American woman about her family's experience as farmers in Nebraska.

This is not how American Harvest: God Country, and Farming in the Heartland begins, but it isn’t far off. It’s how my own day might begin, on the small organic vegetable farm where I spent most of my twenties. American Harvest chronicles a much different kind of farming from diversified vegetables. Marie Mutsuki Mockett—a San Francisco journalist, an atheist, and a woman of color—begins by asking a question: why is there such a cultural divide between the food choices of her liberal friends and those of the often religious farmers of the Midwest? She wanted to know why GMOs are embraced by some and vehemently rejected by others.

Sarah Neilson's article about the book continues here.