The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food (33 page)
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Authors: Janisse Ray
Claire Hope Cummings, Beacon Press, 2008
Vegetable Seed Saving Handbook
“The Wheel of Life: Food, Climate, Human Rights, and the Economy”
Debbie Barker, Center for Food Safety (published by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung),
September 2011
www.centerforfoodsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/TheWheelofLife_Barker.pdf
“Why Iraqi Farmers Might Prefer Death to Order 81”
Nancy Scola,
AlterNet
, September 2007
The World According to Monsanto
Marie-Monique Robin, New Press, 2008
Other
The Iraqi Seed Project
Film by Emma Piper-Burket exploring the history and current trials of agriculture
in Iraq, seeking solutions to restoring Iraq’s farmland after years of war.
Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi
Film by Michel and Jude Fanton celebrating traditional food plants and the people who grow them, shot in eleven countries.
www.cityfarmer.info/2012/03/30/our-seeds-one-hour-documentary-released-on-the-net/
Saving the Seed: The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in Honduras
Film by Scott Turner and Claire Kane Boychuk (while students at the
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill).
Seed Hunter
Film by Sally Ingleton, Philip Bull, and Tony Stevens.
Sin, Salvation, and Saving Seeds: Live at Seed Savers’ Heritage Farm
Music CD by Greg Brown
A Few Suppliers
A Few Good Plants
El Dorado Springs, Missouri
Abundant Life Seeds
Cottage Grove, Oregon
Amishland Heirloom Seeeds
Reamstown, Pennsylvania
Anson Mills
Columbia, South Carolina
The Ark Institute
Easton, Pennsylvania
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Mansfield, Missouri
Bountiful Gardens
Willits, California
Family Farmers Seed Cooperative
Williams, Oregon
Fedco Seeds
Waterville, Maine
Gourmet Garlic Gardens
Bangs, Texas
High Mowing Organic Seeds
Wolcott, Vermont
Hudson Valley Seed Library
Accord, New York
J. L. Hudson, Seedsman
La Honda, California
Johnny’s Selected Seeds
Winslow, Maine
Sand Hill Preservation Center
Calamus, Iowa
Skyfire Garden Seeds
Kanopolis, Kansas
Sierra Seed Co-op
North San Juan, California
Southern Exposure Seed Company
Mineral, Virginia
Sustainable Seed Company
Petaluma, California
Territorial Seeds
Cottage Grove, Oregon
Terroir Seeds
Chino Valley, Arizona
Turtle Tree Seed
Copake, New York
Uprising Seeds
Bellingham, Washington
Wild Garden Seed
Philomath, Oregon
Wood Prairie Farm
Bridgewater, Maine
Photo by Raven Waters
WRITER
, naturalist, and activist Janisse Ray is a seed saver, seed exchanger, and seed banker, and has gardened for twenty-five years. She is the author of several books, including
Pinhook
and
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
, a
New York Times
Notable Book. Ray is on the faculty of Chatham University’s low-residency MFA program, and is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. She has won a Southern Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry, a Southeastern Booksellers Award for Nonfiction, an American Book Award, the Southern Environmental Law Center Award for Outstanding Writing, and a Southern Book Critics Circle Award. She attempts to live a simple, sustainable life on a farm in southern Georgia with her husband, Raven Waters.
the politics and practice of sustainable living
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