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There is no despair in a seed. Theres only life, waiting for the right conditions-sun and water, warmth and soil-to be set free. Everyday, millions upon millions of seeds lift their two green wings.
At no time in our history have Americans been more obsessed with food. Options- including those for local, sustainable, and organic food-seem limitless. And yet, our food supply is profoundly at risk. Farmers and gardeners a century ago had five times the possibilities of what to plant than farmers and gardeners do today; we are losing untold numbers of plant varieties to genetically modified industrial monocultures. In her latest work of literary nonfiction, 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 begins: the seed.
The Seed Underground is a journey to the frontier of seed-saving. It is driven by stories, both the authors own and those from people who are waging a lush...
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Traveling about the country to introduce us to some of her devoted fellow seed savers, Janisse Ray teaches us more than we thought we needed to know about seeds: how remarkable they are, why they need saving, how to save them, and how many of themeach holding the future of some particular planthave been lost and are being lost to our indifference. But in a world where everything we loveincluding seedsseems to be under threat, Ray ultimately offers us hope. Everything the seed has needed to know is encoded within it, she assures us, and as the world changes, so it will discover everything it yet needs to know. A poetic, and always hopeful, book.
Joan Gussow, author of Growing, Older and This Organic Life
What a dream of a bookmy 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! If books can move you to love, this one does.
Gary Paul Nabhan, coauthor of Chasing Chiles
and editor of Renewing Americas Food Traditions
If I get to feeling a little blue about our prospects, Im liable to reach down one of Janisse Rays books just so I can hear her calm, wise, strong voice. This ones my new favorite; a world with her in it is going to do the right thing, I think.
Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org
This is an important book that should be required reading for everyone who eats. Big biotech companies are patenting and privatizing seeds, making it illegal for farmers to retain their own crops for replanting. In a series of engaging and lyrical profiles, Ray shows that by the simple and pleasurable act of saving seeds we can wrest our food system from corporate control.
Barry Estabrook, author of Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
This is an unmatched treasure trove of information.... The Seed Underground is an excellent choice for readers seeking a depiction of the current critical situation in farming all in one, easy-to-read book.
Gene Logsdon, author of A Sanctuary of Trees and Holy Shit
also by janisse ray
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home
Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
A House of Branches: Poems
Drifting into Darien:
A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
Copyright 2012 by Janisse Ray
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form by any means without permission in writing from the publisher.
Project Manager: Patricia Stone
Developmental Editor: Brianne Goodspeed
Copy Editor: Eric Raetz
Proofreader: Susan Barnett
Indexer: Lee Lawton
Designer: Melissa Jacobson
Printed in the United States of America
First printing June, 2012
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Our Commitment to Green Publishing
Chelsea Green sees publishing as a tool for cultural change and ecological stewardship. We strive to align our book manufacturing practices with our editorial mission and to reduce the impact of our business enterprise in the environment. We print our books and catalogs on chlorine-free recycled paper, using vegetable-based inks whenever possible. This book may cost slightly more because it was printed on paper that contains recycled fiber, and we hope youll agree that its worth it. Chelsea Green is a member of the Green Press Initiative ( www.greenpressinitiative.org ), a nonprofit coalition of publishers, manufacturers, and authors working to protect the worlds endangered forests and conserve natural resources. The Seed Underground was printed on FSC-certified paper supplied by Thomson-Shore that contains at least 30% postconsumer recycled fiber.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ray, Janisse, 1962
The seed underground : a growing revolution to save food / Janisse Ray.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-60358-306-0 (pbk.) ISBN 978-1-60358-307-7 (ebook)
1. SeedsUnited States. 2. VegetablesHeirloom varietiesUnited States.
3. FruitHeirloom varietiesUnited States. 4. VegetablesSeedsUnited States. 5. FruitSeedsUnited States. 6. GardeningUnited StatesAnecdotes. I. Title.
SB117.3.R39 2012
631.521dc23
2012014556
Chelsea Green Publishing
85 North Main Street, Suite 120
White River Junction, VT 05001
(802) 295-6300
www.chelseagreen.com
For Wendell Berry
No monument would be tall enough.
When they want you to buy something,
they will call you. When they want you to die for profit, they will let you know. So, friends, every day
do something that wont compute.
Wendell Berry, Manifesto:
The Mad Farmer Liberation Front,
from The Country of Marriage
I AM STANDING under the saddest oak that ever was. A young man who as a child climbed this very tree has died, fallen from a balcony during a party. For his memorial service there are no pews, altar, or casket. A circle of friends and family congregate in the yard of his grieving mother, who is my friend.
One tattooed man of about twenty-five remembers how his buddy helped him through bouts of depression. Another young man behind me steps forward to speak, stumbles, and throws his arm around my waist. His kind eyes are bloodshot and he breathes out small alcoholic clouds. He steadies himself and delivers a short poem, words scribbled large in blue ink on a sheet of paper, like hieroglyphics. No doubt the gibberish sounded wise when it was written.
This man is the age of my son, as could be any of them, young people searching for beauty and meaning, struggling to understand the events of the epoch. They are so young to be so familiar with grief. As we stand in the Florida Panhandle sunshine, a broken pipe from an exploded rig leaks millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Already sharks and fish are washing up dead along the coast one hundred miles away. We could be holding a funeral for the Gulf, or for the climate, or for any number of things.
I feel around me a cavernous hopelessness. But I do not feel hopeless.
Many systems that we collectively have been living amid and on which we rely appear to be failing. The easiest thing to do is to give up. But so much needs to be done; every mind and body is crucial for putting new systems in place. We need positive contributions. We dont need people to drop out.
On the way home from the service I was listening to bluegrass when I heard this question: What will you be building when you are called away?
This book is for everyone, but it is especially for young people, in hopes that, given all the bad, you start building. Not skyscrapers or oil rigs, but lives that make sense, that contribute to a lighter, more intelligent, more beautiful way of living on the earth, lives that are lived as far outside and beyond corporate control as possible.
That in doing so you find meaning.
That you attain higher planes before drugs or alcohol enslave you.
That you inhabit the country of love.
That you find happiness.
Here in the country, on a little farm in southern Georgia, I am building a quiet life of resistance. I am a radical peasant, and every day I take out my little hammer, and I keep building.
Seeds are only a small part of life. But they represent everything else.
All our relations.
I have great faith in a seed.
Henry David Thoreau
AS THE PRICE of gold and silver rises and the value of paper money nose-dives, the most priceless commodity we humans own goes largely unnoticed. When presented with this capital, most people have no place for it, do not know what to do with it, and do not value it. Thus it winds up in the trash.
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