{"product_id":"the-seed-underground-a-growing-revolution-to-save-food-9781603583060","title":"The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere is no despair in a seed. There's 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Seed Underground\u003c\/em\u003e is a journey to the frontier of seed-saving. It is driven by stories, both the author's own and those from people who are waging a lush and quiet revolution in thousands of gardens across America to preserve our traditional cornucopia of food by simply growing old varieties and eating them. \u003cem\u003eThe Seed Underground\u003c\/em\u003e pays tribute to time-honored and threatened varieties, deconstructs the politics and genetics of seeds, and reveals the astonishing characters who grow, study, and save them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRay, Janisse:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eWriter, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Seed Underground\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePinhook\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEcology of a Cracker Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chelsea Green Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50656571785490,"sku":"9781603583060","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1db8fca2-76af-457d-ae88-10ee93236cf5.jpg?v=1733389622","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-seed-underground-a-growing-revolution-to-save-food-9781603583060","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}