Cultivating California Kathy Edwards tells of how she and

tells of how she and the rest of the family made it through the next six years until Clive died: the challenge of continually adapting to his progressive deterioration

Self-sacrifice and a finely tuned chemical language are the foundations of their monarchical society

the manufacture of biofuels has far more to do with sating profit-hungry corporations than with saving the Earth

South Writ Large: Stories from the Global South is an anthology of personal essays

this edition synthesizes readings from all the surviving manuscripts

Cultivating California Kathy Edwards tells of how she andIn Cultivating California, David Vaught shows how fruit and nut growers were neither industrialists nor agrarians. From the very outset, he explains, these ''horticulturists'' saw themselves as guardians of California's unique culture, raising crops for market while self consciously building healthy and prosperous communities. Every grower was not, in fact, like every other, Vaught argues, whether one examines their labor systems, recruiting methods,