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A Growing Revolution to Save Food
Chelsea Green
July 2012
On Sale: July 6, 2012
240 pages
ISBN: 1603583068
EAN: 9781603583060
Kindle: B008J4CI3G
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Non-Fiction
There is no despair in a seed. There's only life, waiting
for the right conditions-sun and water, warmth and soil-to
be set free. Everyday, millions upon millions of seeds lift
their two green wings. At no time in our history have Americans been more obsessed
with food. Options- including those for local, sustainable,
and organic food-seem limitless. And yet, our food supply is
profoundly at risk. Farmers and gardeners a century ago had
five times the possibilities of what to plant than farmers
and gardeners do today; we are losing untold numbers of
plant varieties to genetically modified industrial
monocultures. In her latest work of literary nonfiction,
award-winning author and activist Janisse Ray argues that if
we are to secure the future of food, we first must
understand where it all begins: the seed. The Seed Underground is a journey to the frontier of
seed-saving. It is driven by stories, both the author's own
and those from people who are waging a lush and quiet
revolution in thousands of gardens across America to
preserve our traditional cornucopia of food by simply
growing old varieties and eating them. The Seed
Underground pays tribute to time-honored and threatened
varieties, deconstructs the politics and genetics of seeds,
and reveals the astonishing characters who grow, study, and
save them.
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