Sowing a Better Tomorrow
A conversation with Sarah Ross
If we’re lucky, holidays center around both family and food. But where does the food on our tables come from? How was it produced? Is it healthy and sustainable — not merely for us but also for generations to come? Modern agriculture has increased our output, but at what short- and long-term costs? How can we reawaken ethical food production and reconnect to Southern heritage foodways and our local farming landscape? Sarah Ross, founder of Social Roots, president of the Wormsloe Foundation, and director of the Wormsloe Institute for Environmental History and the UGA Center for Research and Education at Wormsloe, joins Leigh to discuss heirloom vegetables, open-source seeds, and the past and future of food.
(Photo by Bill Durrence © 2018)
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