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Enduring seeds : native American agriculture and wild plant conservation / Gary Paul Nabhan.

Nabhan, Gary Paul. (Author).

Summary:

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.
Subject:
Indians of North America > Agriculture.
Seeds > North America.
Plant conservation > North America.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Lummi Library E 98 .A3 N33 1989 0231919 Stacks Available -
Lummi Library E 98 .A3 N33 1989 0231920 Stacks Available -
Lummi Library E 98 .A3 N33 1989 229758 Stacks Available -

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