ShefFood's bookclub explores intersections between food, place, people and planet, and asks what they tell us about how to fix our broken food system.

For their first ever bookclub event the Sheffield Food Partnership, ShefFood, has been reading Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong by Claire Ratinon. Unearthed is the story of how Claire found belonging through falling in love with growing plants and reconnecting with nature. Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She lived in cities, reluctant to be outdoors and stuck with the belief that success and status could fill the space where belonging was absent. Through learning the practice of growing food, she unpicked her beliefs about who she ought to be.

Our need to eat shapes our daily existence, affecting everything from our own identities and cultures to the landscapes we create, and even our political and economic systems. The ShefFood Book Club explores those intersections between food, place, people and planet, and asks what they tell us about how to fix our broken food system. 

You can find out more about their bookclub here. 

And you can find out more about Claire Ratinon, and her book Unearthed, here. 

Listen to Claire Ratinon talk about Unearthed, and her other work here: