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Planting a seed is just the beginning.
Committed carnivores and veggie lovers alike will more intimately understand and appreciate the locavore foodways of Central Arkansas as Rooted unearths the stories of two dozen farmers, artisanal food producers, and restaurants driving the food scene in the heart of The Natural State.
As you meet local chefs who stop by the farmer's market at the end of the day to buy leftover produce and work it into a recipe, farmers growing for local schools and poverty-stricken residents, a former orphanage now providing education for future farmers, a grower applying his experience to the burgeoning hemp industry, and a welder turned buffalo farmer, you'll see there is much more happening in our local food movement than meets the eye.
As the tight-knit network of Central Arkansans committed to bringing the community a healthier, higher-quality product are revealed, readers will come to understand the vital nature of these relationships in elevating us all.
Lacey Thacker
Lacey Thacker is an author, editor, and all-around investigator. Her interest in the intersection of personal and professional made writing about food and farming for Rooted a natural fit. Lacey has learned from farmers, chefs, and farmer's market coordinators as editor of Arkansas Food and Farm magazine. Alongside her extensive involvement in the local food movement, she also holds a master's degree in professional and technical writing from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Lacey is now drafting her next project, a book about family, aging, dying, and how we find our place in the world. Overall, her mission is to uphold the idea that a journalist's job is to take the important and make it interesting, not to make the interesting seem important.
Sara Mitchell
Sara Mitchell, one of the earliest writers in the inspirational market, is the author of sixteen inspirational novels. Her historical novel VIRGINIA AUTUMN was a 2003 Christy finalist and winner of the 2003 Maggie Award for Best Inspirational Romance; LEGACY OF SECRETS won the 2008 RT Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Love Inspired Historical. Her publishing credits include Steeple Hill, Waterbrook Press, Bethany House, Barbour Books and Zondervan.
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