In her book A Little Bit of Land, Jessica Gigot explores the intricacies of small-scale agriculture in the Pacific Northwest, the changing role of women in this male-dominated industry, and questions of sustainability, economics, and health in our food system.
Narrated by Julia Whelan. Maybe you have listened to say, Tara Westover’s Educated or The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Tara Jenkins Reid or anything by Kristin Hannah? That’s Julia!
The Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield said “everything has a beginning and an end. Make peace with this and all will be well.” In Jessica Gigot’s Feeding Hour we encounter this basic truth again and again. What can one animal teach another about the harsh hours of labor, mothering, and letting go?
The poems in Jessica Gigot’s Flood Patterns vividly depict a lowland place and its people in the farthest northwest corner of the country. As Kevin Craft writes, “The poems are informed by the determined if contested optimism of someone who knows the ground she walks on and its potential to yield both bounty and treachery.”