Groundwork is now available in a limited-release hardcover edition. Order yours today!
All major credit cards are accepted. The cost is $60, plus $5 shipping fees for U.S. addresses (please email gordon@gordonstillman.com for international shipping rates). Books will be shipped via USPS media mail within five business days.
About the Book
Sustainably and locally grown food is increasingly featured on dinner tables and restaurant menus throughout Virginia. The benefits of food grown with such care run from taste and nutrition to the bigger impacts of farming: using sustainable practices lessens a farm’s negative impact on surrounding ecosystems.
But growing sustainable food is usually more labor intensive than conventional agriculture, and farmers can face economic challenges with growing and distributing food locally. Meanwhile, community members who purchase sustainably grown food at grocery stores, farmers markets, and restaurants––or grow their own in community gardens––adjust their budgets and relationships with food to make it feasible year-round.
In Groundwork, photographer Gordon Stillman traces the growth of sustainable agriculture in central Virginia. The 100-page book features photographs of the people who are laying the groundwork of a new food economy in the region––small farms, local markets, restaurants, community gardens, and the families who grow, buy, and eat local.
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