Enduring seeds : native American agriculture and wild plant conservation

9780865473430
0865473439

xxiii, 225 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index

Enduring seeds: the sacred lotus and the common bean.
The wet and the dry tropics.
Fields infused with wildness.
The rise and fall of native farming.
Locally adapted crops and persistent cultures.
Botanical gardens, seed banks, heritage farms, and biosphere reserves.
Wild-rice: the endangered, the sacred, and the tamed.
Wild American sunflowers.
Lost gourds and spent soils on the shores of Okeechobee.
Drowning in a shallow gene pool: the factory turkey.
Harvest time: northern plains agricultural change.
Turning foxholes into compost heaps, shooting ranges into shelterbelts

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