Amy Halloran is the Food Security Manager at Unity House in Upstate New York, where she makes thefood pantry and community meals as healthy and socially supportive as possible. As the first manager ofher city’s farmers market, she saw a need to tell thehidden stories of farming. This conviction led to herbook, The New Bread Basket, a record of and template for the revival of regional grain production. Heractivism for specialty grains and changing emergency feeding programs share a common thread: ofrestoring human values to the work of farming and the act of feeding ourselves, and each other.