The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food

Janisse Ray

ISBN 10: 1603583068 / ISBN 13: 9781603583060

Editore: Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 2013

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2012. First Edition. Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: WMPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366. . . . . .

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• Titolo: The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
• Editore: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1603583068
• ISBN 13: 9781603583060
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: prima edizione
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Writer, naturalist, and activist Janisse Ray is a seed-saver, seed-exchanger and seed-banker, and has gardened for twenty-five years. She is the author of several books, including Pinhook and Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. She attempts to live a simple, sustainable life on a farm in southern Georgia with her husband, Raven Walters.