Janisse ray the seed underground

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A Growing Revolution to Save Food

by Janisse Ray

"What a dream of a book—my favorite poet writing about my favorite topic (seeds) and the remarkable underground network of growers who are keeping diversity alive on the face of this earth while putting delicious food on our tables!

The Seed Underground pays tribute to time-honored and threatened varieties, deconstructs the politics and genetics of seeds, and reveals the astonishing.

The Seed Underground pays tribute to time-honored and threatened varieties, deconstructs the politics and genetics of seeds, and reveals the astonishing.

The Seed Underground is a journey to the frontier of seed-saving.

Writer, naturalist, and activist Janisse Ray is a seed-saver, seed-exchanger, and seed-banker, and has gardened for twenty-five years.

There is no despair in a seed.

Chelsea Green Publishing Company The Seed Underground (English, Electronic book text, Ray Janisse).

If books can move you to love, this one does."

—Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Chasing Chiles and Renewing America’s Food Traditions

"If you haven’t heard what’s happening with seeds, let me tell you.

They’re disappearing, about like every damn thing else. . .

In The Seed Underground, 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.

. But I’m not going to talk about anything that’s going to make us feel hopeless, or despairing, because there’s no despair in a seed."
— from The Seed Underground

Across the country, a renaissance of local food, farming, and place-based culinary traditions is taking hold.

And yet something small, critically imp