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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.
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.
"A gardener's ecological guide to growing heirloom vegetables and articulates related matters such as climate change, organics and the positive effect that growing your own food has on reducing carbon emissions."--Provided by publisher
As our lives have become so hectic, we have entrusted the growing of our food to market gardens and farmers. This change has destroyed the nutritional quality of our food as food is picked un-ripe to extend the supermarket shelf-life. Fruit is now sprayed with anti-ripening chem…
Collecting and growing old and rare varieties of vegetables and fruits--all about heirloom plants and how gardeners can help save this living legacy.
Presents a photographic tour of heirloom gardens from New England to Idaho; offers extensive instructions on saving and storing seeds from year to year; features an encyclopedia of heirloom vegetables; and includes recipes for every season.