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"Gardening at the Margins: Convivial Labor, Community, and Resistance" by Gabriel R. Valle explores the practice of growing ancestral food in home gardens in California's Santa Clara Valley. Valle's research focuses on the practices of home gardeners and their efforts to protect against vulnerability, improve health and wellbeing, and strengthen ties to their neighborhood and community. The book highlights the importance of convivial labor, which is labor outside of the capitalist system that produces value for those who practice it. Valle also examines the historical and structural factors that have alienated people from the land and the food it can produce, particularly for low-income wage earners and immigrants. Overall, "Gardening at the Margins" offers a critical and community-engaged account of home gardens in the Santa Clara Valley, emphasizing the potential for gardening, cooking, and eating as emancipatory acts. [Extracted from the article]

This article frames what one of my collaborators calls nuestra ciencia (our science) as a concept that expresses a transborder worldview based on region‐specific scientific land and healing practices. I trace the ways Indigenous science came into fierce conflict with the twentieth‐century wave of Anglo settler‐colonial land grabs in south Texas and how the resulting force of mass agriculture enabled mass destruction and biodiversity loss in the region. It offers an environmental, archival, and ethnographic analysis of curanderismo (Mexican traditional medicine) as science and explores its relationship to settler colonialism, environmental degradation, and processes of racialization in relation to health, science, and medical technologies, as well as tracing the ongoing material record of its practice. I frame Mexican transborder healing traditions (curanderismo and plant medicine) as serious social, scientific, and ecological processes. I make it clear that although this practice is often considered a Mexican tradition, de‐Indigenized mestizos also practice, exploit, and appropriate it, while its roots lie in Indigenous lifeways and knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]