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 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 environmentalist Paul Hawken, food activist Marion Nestle, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael Moss, scientist David R. Montgomery, and actress Anne Hathaway. She has been featured on more than three dozen media outlets, including MSNBC, NPR, and 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 second 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.

Jennifer honed her ear for writing perhaps more untraditionally than most journalists, with a degree in classical vocal performance from the New England Conservatory of Music. She still sings professionally in her new city of Chicago, where she works as a cantorial soloist and lives with her screenwriter husband and two daughters.