Photographer Anne Hamersky documents farms and city farmers

Photo by Photographer Anne Hamersky. City Slicker Farms. They collaboratively build backyard gardens and distribute fresh produce for free throughout their cash-strapped neighborhood.

Her forthcoming book (mid-November 2010), “Farm Together Now” with co-authors Amy Franceschini and Daniel Tucker (Chronicle Books)

My portrait and documentary photographs have appeared in LIFE, Time, People, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, Yoga Journal and National Geographic Traveler, among many others. My forthcoming book, “Farm Together Now” with co-authors Amy Franceschini and Daniel Tucker (Chronicle Books) illustrates how ordinary people across the United States are creating a more sustainable, cleaner and safer food system, one farm at a time.

Available in November 2010

Farm Together Now
Communities Across the U.S. Bringing Food and Ideas to Your Plate
By Amy Franceschini
and Daniel Tucker
Photographs by Anne Hamersky
Foreword by Mark Bittman

Farm Together Now — With interest in home gardening at an all-time high and concerns about food production and safety making headlines, Farm Together Now explores the current state of grassroots farming in the U.S. Part oral history and part treatise on food politics, this fascinating project is an introduction to the many individuals who are producing sustainable food, challenging public policy, and developing community organizing efforts. With hundreds of photographs and a foreword from New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, Farm Together Now will educate, inspire, and cultivate a new wave of modern agrarians.

The Farms

In the summer of 2009 we (Amy, Anne and Daniel) visited these 20 farms across the U.S. to learn about their work, do interviews and shoot photo essays for the book Farm Together Now:

City Slicker Farms (Oakland, CA); Freewheelin’ Farm (Santa Cruz, CA); South Central Farmers Feeding Families (Los Angeles and Bakersfield, CA); Tryon Life Community Farm (Portland, OR); Native Seeds/SEARCH (Patagonia, AZ); Acequiahood of San Luis People’s Ditch/Acequia Institute (San Luis, CO); Georgia Citizens Coalition on Hunger (Atlanta, GA); Mountain Gardens (Burnsville, NC); Jim Knopik (Fullerton, NE); Sandhill Farm (Northeast, MO); AquaRanch (Flanagan, IL); Angelic Organics Learning Center (Caledonia, Rockford and Chicago, IL); Joel Greeno/Family Farm Defenders (Kendall, WI); On The Fly Farms and God’s Gang (Union Pier, MI and Chicago, IL); Participation Park/Baltimore Development Cooperative (Baltimore, MD); Anarchy Apiaries (Hudson Valley, NY); Wild Hive Farm/Cafe/Bakery (Clinton Corners, NY); Nuestras Raices (Holyoke, MA); and Diggers’ Mirth Collective Farm/Intervale Center (Burlington, VT).

See Anne Hamersky’s website here.

See the book project website here.