The seed underground : a growing revolution to save food

Ray, Janisse 1962- (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 9781603583060 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1603583068 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781603583077 (ebook)
ISBN: 1603583076 (ebook)
Physical Description: print
xv, 217 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., 2012.

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.