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A zine about culture and agriculture
Second Nature is a love poem to an adopted community where I’m out of step, both culturally and agriculturally. I’m white in a place that’s more than 70% Black, and also a novice native-plant gardener in a community that loves its grass.
Praise for UNLIKELY ALLY (Sept. 2018)
“Marilyn Berlin Snell brings the paradox of military sustainability into full view in this lively account from California’s desert and coastal training grounds, showing how national security and natural security can manage to work together.”—David Havlick, author of Bombs Away: Militarization, Conservation, and Ecological Restoration
"Uncovers a surprising bright spot on our fraught horizon."--Mary Ellen Hannibal, author of Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction