Forrest Pritchard

Forrest Pritchard is the New York Times bestselling author of Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm, as well as Growing Tomorrow, Behind the Scenes with 18 Extraordinary Sustainable Farmers Who Are Changing the Way We Eat, a 2015 finalist for independent-press cookbook of the year. A graduate of the College of William & Mary with degrees in English and geology, Pritchard is also a full-time organic livestock farmer and seventh-generation producer,...See more

Forrest Pritchard is the New York Times bestselling author of Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm, as well as Growing Tomorrow, Behind the Scenes with 18 Extraordinary Sustainable Farmers Who Are Changing the Way We Eat, a 2015 finalist for independent-press cookbook of the year. A graduate of the College of William & Mary with degrees in English and geology, Pritchard is also a full-time organic livestock farmer and seventh-generation producer, serving weekly markets in the Washington DC metro area. He is a popular public speaker, regularly delivering keynotes for colleges and universities, policy groups and consumer audiences, and maintains an active national lecture schedule. His books have been named top reads by NPR, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and many more. See less