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Seed Saving and Sharing in the Southwest

Elemental Wisdom from Pre-Contact to Today

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  • Paperback

    296 pages

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    20 April 2027

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Summary

A deft exploration of seed preservation in the Southwestern Borderlands, perfect for anyone seeking to understand and participate in regional seed-saving and seed-banking efforts.

Landscape architect Susannah Abbey’s Seed Saving and Sharing in the Southwest: Elemental Wisdom from Pre-Contact to Today surveys the politics, philosophy, and ecology of seed preservation in the American Southwest and northern Mexico from pre-European contact to the present.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780826370792
ISBN-10:0826370799
Author:Susannah Abbey
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Imprint:University of New Mexico Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:296
Release Date:20 April 2027
Weight:364g
Dimensions:25mm x 178mm x 254mm
Series:New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest
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Critics Review

“Susannah Abbey has done a great service to future generations by detailing how the seed-saving movement in Arid America began. Taking the story back well before the first gardening magazines featured seed savers in their pages, she corrects lapses and errors in that history, honoring the Original Keepers of the Seed as well as nearly forgotten activists. I am grateful that she has provided us with a richer, more multicultural account of these episodes than what has ever appeared in print before.” – Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
“Seed Saving and Sharing in the Southwest weaves together threads of geology, history, politics, and Indigenous practice to demonstrate solutions to our most urgent collective problems. The seed keepers introduced to us throughout this book hold inspiration and answers for us all.” – Tessa Desmond, director of the Seed Farm at Princeton University

About The Author

Susannah Abbey

Susannah Abbey is a landscape architect, proprietor of One Earth Creative Services, and a freelance writer in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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