The Earth Knows My Name

"There is so much in each chapter of this extraordinary book that you might want to grasp it in one large bite, but you can't, for here the world of farm and garden and food takes us to a far deeper place than we're used to going, to a world that is not separate from politics, despair, refuge, beauty and ultimately the salvation of heart, life and culture."

—Deborah Madison, author of Vegetable Literacy and Local Flavors

"It lifts my heart to find the kind of intelligence, grace, and regard that are in this book's pages. Patricia Klindienst has accomplished something wonderful."

—Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams

"...Patricia Klindienst steers the conversation about immigrants and immigration in a more humane direction, reminding us that, whether we are first generation Asian-Americans or eighth generation descendants of Spanish settlers, almost all American families emigrated to this land. And land lies at the heart of this book: homeland and adoptive land, farmland and forgotten land… And it is here, in the gardener's recognition of the connectedness of the social and natural world, that The Earth Knows My Name offers its greatest lesson."

—Jaman Matthews, World Ark Magazine from Heifer International

"Warning: this book is powerful. Don't be surprised if, come spring,
you find yourself planting a cottage garden..."

--Best Book of the Year, 2007, Money Changes Things blog, Philadelphia, PA