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Advance Praise for Tales from the Sustainable Underground

Food is too fundamental, and food security too critical to be bound by a law built to serve corporations and agribusiness. A growing movement based on the civil right to good, save food is standing outside the law — and pointing up the law’s injustice. This is an important and necessary book about a resistance movement as fundamental as any social justice movement in history.

— Sharon Astyk, writer (scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook), farmer and

author of Depletion and Abundance, Independence Days and Making Home

(sharonastyk.com)

Off-grid, offbeat, but right on target, Stephen Hren’s glimpse into the lives of those making viable choices at the fringes of society is a real revelation. Hren’s accounts of neo-primitivists, green anarchists, urban squatters and other pioneers working towards a sustainable future is consistently inspiring and informative.

— Richard Freudenberger, Publisher, BackHome Magazine

In Tales from the Sustainable Underground, Stephen Hren proves that plenty of Americans are ready to take back their country — one plot of land at a time, if necessary. Through personal insight and engaging interviews with sustainable citizens, Hren masterfully spins a cross-country tale about the “doers” who are helping to bring sustainability out of the shadows and usher in a return of this country’s “can-do” attitude.

— Roger Sipe, Editor, Urban Farm magazine

Stephen Hren stitches together stories about the option open to each of us faced with resource depletion, energy descent and climate change— doing things differently even if it is against the law or socially unpopular. This book will inspire you to explore that option. Thanks to Hren for being brave enough to write it.

— Aaron Newton, farmer, activist, outlaw chicken raiser

and co-author of A Nation of Farmers

Most activists and counter culture types have their ups and downs, sometimes I feel less hopeful and then... along comes a book like this... WOW! Tales From The Sustainable Underground is an amazing, magical tapestry of a multitude of different people’s “lifestyle” choices. Each story takes you deeper into hearts and minds of others who are willing to take the risk of not belonging in a culture that craves sameness while marketing it and fetishizing it as “individuality.” This book is inspiring, informative, educational, nourishing and uplifting, a must-read for anyone who wants to make a difference in the world!

— Dirk Becker, Activist, Farmer, Educator, Public Speaker

and Urban Farming Local Food Advocate