Farm Stand News: Letters to the Neighbourhood

Author: Marianne Unger

Format: Softcover | Trim Size: 5.5" x 8.5" | Pages: 240 | Publication Date: November 6, 2026

Cover reveal coming June 2026

Neighbourliness, love, respect, and food turn capitalist colonialism on its head

Farm Stand News is what Wendell Berry would write if he was a 60-something queer woman of Mennonite heritage running a gift economy-based farm stand in the urban core of a medium-sized city. 

Imagine a fair-sized sagging beloved front porch; an awning out front. Very ‘let’s go to market’ with strong lights and a lovely old baking cupboard. There’s a small fridge and freezer too. Each week, an email with newsy bits about happenings in the neighbourhood – that a sharp-shinned hawk has been spotted, or to please return your jars when you’re finished with them, and what’s on offer in the fridge or fresh from the oven at the Farm Stand this week. And then short musings on the gift economy, Mennonite cookery and colonialism, and the simple, tender, sometimes difficult process of making a village together.

Marianne Unger (she/her) is a white settler who lives with her little family and wonderful neighbours in Fernwood, a most inspired village on Lekwungen lands, (colonially known as Victoria, BC), where she runs an urban farm stand from her front porch. She does not ever want to leave.

Features
• 800 word essays are digestible, thought-provoking, profound
• 50% chance of welling up with happy tears
• Bonus: Mennonite comfort food recipes

Benefits
• Open to any page for a quick dose of contemplative goodness
• Instant enfoldment into the best of humanity
• Small, simple, scalable ideas for village-building 

Ideal Readers
• people with social media fatigue or aversion
• hopecore enchantment seekers
• appreciators of beauty in the mundane

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