Jennifer Grayson

“A CALL TO FARMS is a transformative act of journalism. Who writes an eloquent page-turner about farms? Jennifer Grayson does. A CALL TO FARMS erases shopworn stereotypes of farms and farmers, gracefully leading the reader into a boots-on, magical culture crucial to the well-being of society, the land, and our future.”

—Paul Hawken, New York Times–bestselling author of Regeneration and Drawdown


Jennifer Grayson is an award-winning author and science journalist focusing on the environment, food, agriculture, and public health. Her first book, UNLATCHED: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy (HarperCollins), won the Society of Environmental Journalists Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and a Nautilus Book Award. Her mix of incisive investigative reporting and captivating personal writing has been praised by luminaries including environmentalist Paul Hawken, food activist Marion Nestle, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael Moss, and scientist David R. Montgomery. She has been featured on more than three dozen media outlets, including MSNBC, NPR, WGN-TV, and has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, and the Huffington Post, where she created and wrote the long-running “Innovation Earth” and “Eco Etiquette” columns. She was also the creator and host of Uncivilize, a podcast about the rewilding movement, which ran for three seasons on Apple Podcasts.

Her new book, A CALL TO FARMS: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World — for which she undertook a regenerative farmer training program in Central Oregon at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — was published by Countryman Press/W. W. Norton in 2024. She lives in Los Angeles with her screenwriter husband and two daughters.