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  • From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] NEW BOOK Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds by Scott Chaskey
  • Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 10:23:15 -0700

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Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds

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by Scott Chaskey
Hardcover, 240 pages
January 2014
$23.99 / $27.50 Can
ISBN: 9781609615031
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e-book ISBN: 9781609615048
About the Book

Scott Chaskey—working farmer, poet, and spiritual father of the community
farming movement—considers "the web of biodiversity and resilience at the
heart of our cultural inheritance" by masterfully weaving history, politics,
botany, literature, mythology, and memoir into a beautiful and instructive
book.

It’s hard to think of a subject more fundamental to the sustenance of the
human race than seeds. Having coevolved with the Earth’s plants, insects, and
animals, seeds are





Scott Chaskey—working farmer, poet, and spiritual father of the community
farming movement—considers "the web of biodiversity and resilience at the
heart of our cultural inheritance" by masterfully weaving history, politics,
botany, literature, mythology, and memoir into a beautiful and instructive
book.
It’s hard to think of a subject more fundamental to the sustenance of the
human race than seeds. Having coevolved with the Earth’s plants, insects, and
animals, seeds are entwined with the core myths of ancient cultures and the
development of human consciousness. Their story remains vitally important
today, as the corporations that manufacture GMOs threaten our food security
and the future of seed-cultivated agriculture.
The stakes, for those concerned with preserving biodiversity and ecological
integrity, are high.
Balancing a wide view of politics and history, Chaskey alights from life on
the farm he has cultivated for 25 years to conjure Gregor Mendel’s breeding
experiments that yielded our modern understanding of genetics; he also
introduces us to several "bioneers," such as the geobotanist Nikolay Vavilov
and agriculturalist Cary Fowler, who are preserving global biodiversity
through seeds. Integrating scholarship with accessible storytelling, Seedtime
is a celebration as well as a call to action urging us to renew our role as
citizens of nature, in ecologist Aldo Leopold’s phrase, not as conquerors of
it.

Scott Chaskey is a poet, farmer, and educator who for a quarter century has
worked the land for the Peconic Land Trust at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett,
NY. A pioneer of the community farming movement, he is past president of the
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York and author of This Common
Ground, a memoir. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY.


  • [permaculture] NEW BOOK Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds by Scott Chaskey, Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 09/20/2014

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