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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 this work of literary nonfiction, 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: A Growing Revolution to Save Food is a journey to the frontier of seed-saving. It is driven by stories, 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 seeds.
This book is a voyage to the country of seed-saving. It is driven by stories, from people waging a lush and quiet revolution in thousands of gardens across America, a battle to preserve our traditional cornucopia of food.
Published by Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012.
Winner of
- 2013 American Horticultural Society Book Award
- 2013 ASJA Eisenberg Book Awards
- 2013 Silver Award of Achievement
- 2013 Nautilus Gold Book Award : Green Living Category
- 2013 The Green Prize for Sustainable Literature
- 2013 GWA Gold Award of Achievement for Best Book Writing
