Poems & Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781442142428)

Notice of his work has appeared in National Geographic, Utne Reader, Smithsonian Magazine, The Congressional Record, Der Plunkt, The Sun, Organic Gardening Magazine, Rain, Catholic Digest, Reader's Digest, Biography, Who's Who, Australia Broadcasting Company, NPR, KATU, KPTV, ABC TV's Home Show and Good Morning America, Chicken Soup for the Gardeners Soul, among a host of others, and has been given Renew America's 8th annual National Environmental Sustainability Award, along with a grant from the Rodale Institute (4/'98). He was selected as one of Utne Reader's 100 American Visionaries in '95. Dan Barker is currently publishing, making and showing American Tanka, and is the director of the Home Gardening Project Foundation. After building 1400 free raised-bed vegetable gardens for low-income households in Portland's disenfranchised neighborhoods from the '80s through the 90s he established the HGP as a contributing foundation.