There was a great interview today on LA's KPCC Air Talk with "award-
winning author, popular columnist and spokesman for Organic farming
David Mas Masumoto about his new book, “Wisdom Of The Last
Farmer” (Free Press) that is about reconnecting to the land and how
the future of food could shape our destinies."
Here's the interview
http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2009/08/11/havesting-legacies-from-the-land/
From his website on his latest, upcoming book: "Wisdom of the Last
Farmer - Harvesting Legacies from the Land."
"Hailed by The New York Times as “A poet of farming” and the Los
Angeles Times as the “Rockstar Farmer” who “uses his farm as Thoreau
did his Walden Pond,"
http://www.masumoto.com/literary/books/wisdom_last_farmer.htm
And his earlier work:
Heirlooms: Letters from a Peach Farmer
http://www.amazon.com/Heirlooms-Letters-Peach-Farmer-Valley/dp/1597140643/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250016920&sr=1-2
He has 2 appearances in LA, today and tomorrow:
August 11 Tuesday evening 7 pm
in Pasadena, CA at Vroman’s Books
Reading and discussion
Tomorrow night, Aug 12 he will be at the Santa Monica Library at 7pm
Reading and discussion
compiled by ben clayton of south-la-green-roundtable