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The seed underground : a growing revolution to save food
—Ray, Janisse, 1962-
2012

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ISBN: 9781603583060 (pbk.)

Description: xv, 217 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

  • More gardens, less gas
  • A brief history of industrial agriculture
  • Me growing up
  • Sycamore
  • What is broken
  • A rind is a terrible thing to waste
  • Losing the Conch cowpea
  • Hooking up
  • Sylvia's garden
  • Keeping preacher beans alive
  • Oakreez
  • The poet who saved seed
  • The anatomy of inflorescence: a quick lesson
  • Red earth
  • Pilgrimage to Mecca
  • The pollinator
  • The bad genie is out of the bottle
  • Tomato man
  • How to save tomato seeds
  • Sweet potato queen
  • Keener corn
  • Getting the conch back
  • Winning the mustaprovince
  • Basic seed saving
  • Seeds will make you a thief
  • Gifts
  • Seed banking
  • Grassroots resistance
  • Public breeding, private profit
  • Breed your own
  • Wheat anarchists
  • A vanishing plant wisdom
  • Stop walking around doing nothing
  • Last stand.

LCCN: 2012014556

Control Number: 877865

Publisher: White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2012.
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