Michael’s early activism earned him a journalist’s title of the “Spartacus of Sustainable Food Activism” and Julia Child referred to him as a “Food Terrorist” for his public speeches demonstrating how the American food system was broken.

As an author, Michael has written and photographed four acclaimed books which have been distributed around the world: From the Good Earth: A Celebration of Growing Food Around the World, On Good Land: the Autobiography of an Urban Farm, Fields of Plenty: A Farmer’s Journey in Search of Real Food and the People who Grow It, and Street Farm: Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier. He is the subject of the award-winning PBS film Beyond Organic narrated by Meryl Streep and his work in Vancouver is featured in the new feature length documentary A New Economy.

Michael’s photographs have appeared in publications around the world and in solo exhibitions at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Field Museum of Chicago, and the Oakland Museum. His work has been profiled in numerous print and electronic media including National Geographic, NPR’s All Things Considered, New York Times, CBC, BBC, Gourmet Magazine, L.A. Times, and many others.

Michael is the co-founder and director of Sole Food Street Farms, one of North America’s largest urban agriculture enterprises established to provide employment to individuals in Vancouver, British Columbia who are managing poverty and addiction. He is the founder of the non-profit Center For Urban Agriculture, the registered charity Cultivate Canada, the Center For Arts, Ecology and Agriculture and co-founder of the Agrarian Elders. He currently lives and farms with his family at the historic 120-acre Foxglove Farm. You can learn more about Michael here.