Reaping What She Sows

Reaping What She Sows: How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System is a work of narrative non-fiction by Nancy Matsumoto profiling the women reshaping local and regional food systems across the country -- farmers, millers, bakers, brewers, distillers, winemakers and seed savers.

Set against the backdrop of a food system strained by corporate consolidation and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic's supply-chain shocks, the book follows changemakers who are regenerating land and ecosystems and rebuilding more resilient, community-rooted alternatives to industrial "Big Food."

Covering local grain economies, indigenous and diasporic seed-saving traditions and regenerative agriculture, it offers a hopeful, grounded picture of what eating sustainably and ethically can look like.