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Botanical specimens Collection and preservation Centers of plant diversity Diversité végétale Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Food crops Germplasm resources Collection and preservation Gardening Jardinières Biographies Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Plant collecting Plant diversity Vavilov, N. I. (Nikolaĭ Ivanovich) 1887-1943 Women BiographyFilter By Subjects
Botanical specimens Collection and preservation Centers of plant diversity Diversité végétale Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Food crops Germplasm resources Collection and preservation Gardening Jardinières Biographies Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Plant collecting Plant diversity Vavilov, N. I. (Nikolaĭ Ivanovich) 1887-1943 Women BiographyMartin, Jacqueline Briggs
Summary: This picture book biography brings to life the pioneering woman farmer who founded Eva's Garden more than 50 years ago in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and continues to introduce culinary herbs, greens, flowers and wild foraged goods to Boston area chefs and eaters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Readers to Eaters 2024
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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