For the past couple of years, I've been working on a new project that has prompted me to think about how historic sites might engage productively with the burgeoning local food and sustainable agriculture movements. Click on the links below to read more about where this has led me so far:

• History at the Table, a new blog that explores the intersection of working agriculture and historic sites.
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• "Re-Occupying Plimoth", a talk I gave at the New England American Studies Association conference in November 2011 about the convergence of historic sites and the local/sustainable food movement


• "'Plant Yourself in My Neighborhood': An Ethnographic Landscape Study of Farming and Farmers in Columbia County, New York," produced for Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, will be available soon as a PDF file