No Small Potatoes

Elizabeth Johnston

No Small Potatoes

No Small Potatoes
Sound Proof Press
156 pages, index, plus
12 pages of full colour photos
Released 25 Sep. 2008

No Small Potatoes is about the importance of community and food safety. It's an eclectic look at the effects of factory farming and genetic modification on us and our food. It combines research, interviews, and personal narrative.

After being awarded a Canada Council grant to write a book about the potato, I traveled to Prince Edward Island, Peru and Hungary for research and to interview people. Some of the places I visited were an organic farm, a native-run potato park, the International Potato Centre, and museums. Interviews with farmers, scientists and regular folk, including some from Ireland, are in my book, too, along with a section of colour pictures from my travels.

To read an excerpt, click here.

BUY THE BOOK

Montreal

No Small Potatoes is available in Montreal at these stores:

Co-op Bookstore
Concordia Bookstore

Ile Perrot

In Ile Perrot, the book is available at Ken & Lorraine Taylor's organic farmers' market every Saturday until December.

World wide

To buy the book online, click here.
Also available through:

chapters.indigo.ca
amazon.ca
amazon.com
amazon.uk

To be notified of upcoming events, sign up for the e-mail list below.

Join our Mailing List

For Email Marketing you can trust

PRAISE for No Small Potatoes

Elizabeth Johnston’s fascination with the potato brings her on an absorbing journey through many of the pivotal issues affecting how we live today. The stark reality of GMO domination, leading to the destruction of agricultural communities, the limiting of food choice and the loss of traditional knowledge and farming practices is central to the book. She skillfully demonstrates how science has lost its integrity in response to the lure of big business but points out that there is hope for small scale farmers working to preserve genetic diversity and food security. Elizabeth’s account of how native Peruvians are reclaiming their dignity and spiritual connection to the land and her call for a grassroots movement for food independence make this a captivating read.
-- Cait Curran
(editor of Organic Matters, the magazine of the Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association)

No Small Potatoes reminds us of the dangers of creating international law that elevates the protection of certain corporations' power to impose their will on basic human rights to farm and subsist on nature’s gifts of genetic diversity. Elizabeth Johnston tells her personal story alongside that of others who have personally paid the price of these violations of good science, ethical business practices, as well cultural exploitation and destruction. A good read. A call to action.
-- Timothy LaSalle, Ph.D., CEO of The Rodale Institute

Elizabeth Johnston follows the plight of the potato from traditional crop to genetically engineered commodity telling an alarming story which highlights corporate control of our food system and the disconnection between people and the food they eat.
Angela Caudle de Freitas, Executive Director
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements

Main Navigation