Gardening at the Margins: Convivial Labor, Community, and Resistance.

"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]