This book highlights the value and skill of horticultural through stories of food cultivation. It examines the difficulties that arise from the perception that this type of activity is unskilled and the importance of acknowledging the talent involved in growing food.
The book provides a rare focus on horticulture as a vital part of agri-food systems, offering a social science perspective on the sector-s current and past characteristics. It presents new primary research into horticultural work and workers across UK food growing, using close attention to their abilities to highlight the depth of their knowledge and learning. This is set in the context of global agri-food regimes which press producers to seek ever more precarious labour, undermining food justice. By examining these in the context of internationally connected supply chains, it characterises injustices which recur globally, and across food system labour. The conceptual argument starts from an ecological definition
