Nabhan, Gary Paul.
Summary: The future of our food depends on seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 2009
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Summary: "How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to become more resilient in the face of such "global weirding." This book draws upon the wisdom and technical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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Contents: Introduction -- Discerning the histories encoded in our bodies -- Searching for the ancestral diet -- Did mitochondrial Eve and Java Man feast on the same foods? -- Finding a bean for your genes and a buffer against malaria -- . The shaping and shipping away of Mediterranean cuisines -- Discovering why some don't like it hot -- Is it a matter of taste? -- Dealing with migration headaches --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 2004