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During this program Jeremy Smith talks with TWQ producer, Chérie Newman, about his book with a very long title. Growing A Garden City: How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, a Homeless Shelter Chef, Single Mothers, and More Are Transforming Themselves and Their Neighborhoods Through the Intersection of Local Agriculture and Community--and How You Can, Too.

Growing a Garden City is a collection of personal stories and gorgeous color photographs. Booklist had this to say about the book: “Bright, vibrant, and buoyantly accessible, this effervescent celebration of the local food movement thrums with regional, national, and international implications.”

Smith is a writer and freelance journalist based in Missoula, Montana. His work has appeared in Gourmet and Saveur, the Christian Science Monitor and the Chicago Tribune, Research View and World Trade, High Country News and Montana Magazine, and elsewhere.

Read an excerpt from Growing a Garden City at NewWest.net.

Find out more at Jeremy N. Smith's Web site.

Read an article by Chef Boy Ari about Growing a Garden City published in the Missoula Independent.

You'll find Growing a Garden City at Fact & Fiction in Missoula, or at your local independent bookseller.

The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.

Read an interview with TWQ producer Chérie Newman on the Humanities Montana Web site.

Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.

Special thanks to Lisa Simon, David Moore, Barbara Theroux, and Kim Anderson.

This program is supported in part by Humanities Montana, enriching intellectual, cultural, and civic life for all Montanans. And by the Montana Cultural Trust.

Send comments to Chérie Newman.

Guests on the The Write Question are writers, publishers, and illustrators living, or working for an extended period of time, in the western United States. The Write Question is a production of Montana Public Radio.