Selected writing
On progressive rural organizing…
- Communities Organizing Against Big Pork (FoodPrint, 10.30.20)
- How Rural Communities Are Fighting Farm Crisis-Fueled Xenophobia (FoodPrint, 10.9.19)
- The Agrarian Origins of Authoritarian Rural Populism in the United States: What Can We Learn from 20th-Century Struggles in California and the Midwest? (Co-author; Conference paper: Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World, The Hague, Netherlands, 2.2018)
- To Build a Progressive Populism, Look to Farm Country (Civil Eats, 12.11.17)
- New Film, “Homeplace Under Fire,” Profiles Unlikely Heroes of the 1980s Farm Crisis (FoodPrint, 5.18.2017)
On intersections of rural culture/policy and national politics…
- Warren and Sanders Think This Farm Policy Will Help Rural America Rebound. Does it Stand a Chance? (Civil Eats, 8.26.19)
- Is the Second Farm Crisis Upon Us? (Civil Eats, 9.10.18)
- I discuss the current farm crisis on Heritage Radio Network’s “The Farm Report“
- Long-Delayed Rules to Protect Small Farmers Might be Too Little Too Late (Civil Eats, 1.11.17)
- Want to Understand Trump’s Rise? Head to the Farm (Civil Eats, 10.27.16)
- How Congress Is Moving to Crush Protections for Small Meat and Poultry Producers (And Why You Should Care) (Civil Eats, 6.11.14)
- United We Eat (Civil Eats, 3.30.11)
On small-scale farmers…
- The Coronavirus Pandemic is Pushing Dairy Farmers to the Brink (Civil Eats, 4.8.20)
- Why This Vegetarian Will Eat Pork at Farm Aid (Milwaukee Magazine, 9.20.19)
- In the Field with Farmer Ben Burkett (FoodPrint, 4.24.17)
- At the End of the 3 Line, East New York Farms! Grows (Edible Brooklyn, Summer 2016)
- A Greener Soylent (“The Mail” letters section, The New Yorker, 6.23.14)
- A Tree Grows in Gaza (Modern Farmer, 12.5.14)
- Strengthening the food chain: Farmers and workers unite, find power in numbers (Grist, 5.30.13)
- Why the food movement should occupy Wall Street (Grist, 10.18.11)
All writings at Civil Eats
All writings at Foodprint, published by GRACE Communications Foundation
Books and other media
Producer, The Food and Climate Connection. Short film directed by Sara Grady, 2010.
Editor, Green Roofs: Ecological Design and Construction. Schiffer Press, 2007.
Siena Chrisman 
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