Enduring seeds : native American agriculture and wild plant conservation / Gary Paul Nabhan.
Warns that modern agriculture practices have over-manipulated and genetically streamlined domestic plants and animals, and suggest fostering diversity, safeguarding wild plants, and developing a wide variety of crops for different local conditions.
Record details
- ISBN: 0865473447
- ISBN: 0865473439
- ISBN: 9780865473430
- Physical Description: xxiii, 225 pages ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: San Francisco : North Point Press, 1989.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-217) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- The flowering of diversity -- Diversity lost: the wet and the dry tropics -- Fields infused with wildness -- Invisible erosion: the rise and fall of native farming -- A spirit earthly enough: locally adapted crops and persistent cultures -- New and old ways of saving: botanical gardens, seed banks, heritage farms, and biosphere reserves -- Wild-rice: the endangered, the sacred, and the tamed -- The exile and the holy anomaly: 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 in to compost heaps, shooting ranges into shelterbelts.
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Lummi Library | E 98 .A3 N33 1989 | 0231920 | Stacks | Available | - |
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520 | . | ‡aWarns that modern agriculture practices have over-manipulated and genetically streamlined domestic plants and animals, and suggest fostering diversity, safeguarding wild plants, and developing a wide variety of crops for different local conditions. | |
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