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• Title:The seed underground : a growing revolution to save food / Janisse Ray.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ray, Janisse, 1962-
  
• Published/Created:White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., ©2012.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY reserve collectionWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: SB117.3 .R39 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Seeds--United States.
  Vegetables--Heirloom varieties--United States.
  Fruit--Heirloom varieties--United States.
  Vegetables--Seeds--United States.
  Fruit--Seeds--United States.
  Gardening--United States--Anecdotes.
  
• Genre/Form: Anecdotes.
  
• Description:xv, 217 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:Discusses the loss of fruit and vegetable varieties and the genetically modified industrial monocultures being used today, shares the author's personal experiences growing, saving, and swapping seeds, and deconstructs the politics and genetics of seeds.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-211) , filmography (page 211) , and index.
  
• ISBN:9781603583060 (pbk.)
  1603583068 (pbk.)
  9781603583077 (ebook)
  1603583076 (ebook)
  
• 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.