CSTMS is pleased to announce the book release from one of our STS Designated Emphasis PhD students! Liz Carlisle is celebrating the release of her book Lentil Underground on February 5 in North Gate Hall, hosted by Michael Pollen.  She developed many of her ideas for this book in the STS c250 course, taught by Alastair Iles, and with CSTMS-affiliated faculty, Nathan Sayre and Jake Kosek. Liz is completing her PhD in Geography and is a fellow at the Center for Diversified Farming Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. You can find more information about her work here.

Set in the farm belt of red state America, far from the farmer’s markets and haute cuisine of coastal cities, Lentil Underground confronts the global food system in one of the little known rural communities that will determine its fate. From the heart of Big Sky Country comes this inspiring story of a handful of colorful pioneers who have successfully bucked the chemically-based food chain and the entrenched power of agribusiness’s one percent, by stubbornly banding together. Unearthing the deep roots of this movement, Lentil Underground introduces readers to a memorable cast of characters, from gun-toting libertarians and Christian homesteaders to peace-sign-waving environmental activists.  Journalist and native Montanan Liz Carlisle weaves an eye-opening and richly reported narrative that will be welcomed by readers of food and farm memoirs, as well as everyone concerned with the future of American agriculture and natural food in an increasingly uncertain world.