Growing Gardens, Building Power

“Growing Gardens, Building Power does a thorough job of engaging and explaining many of the most current debates in food justice activism, and the issues that make such activism necessary. The scholarship is excellent; Myers has a gift for storytelling.” - Alison Alkon (author of Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability) “Growing Gardens, Building Power is truly the first book to put the extensive historical analysis of structural problems -redlining, disinvestment, housing discrimination- together with food justice issues. This will be a book that will change minds.” - E. Melanie DuPuis (author of Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice) “In Growing Gardens, Building Power, Professor Justin Sean Myers delves into the origins of food inequity and the politics of food justice. To do so, he follows East New York Farms! (ENYF!) as they fight to deliver food justice to marginalized communities in Brooklyn, New York. Myers touches on the inequalities residents face, the potential of community gardens, and the challenges ENYF! has overcome.” - Julia Agostino (Food Tank)

Justin Sean Myers is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at California Sate University, Fresno and has previously published on the politics of the food justice movement as well as the race and class tensions within the food movement. He is currently studying the social, economic, and ecological impacts of agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley.