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Botanical specimens Collection and preservation Centers of plant diversity Dungy, Camille T 1972- Homes and haunts Environmental justice Food crops Germplasm resources Collection and preservation Gardeners Biography Gardening Colorado Fort Collins Plant collecting Plant diversity Vavilov, N. I. (Nikolaĭ Ivanovich) 1887-1943Martin, 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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SOMNabhan, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.632 NABDungy, Camille T.
Summary: "Poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogeneous policies that limited the possibility and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023