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A Guide to Seed Saving, Seed Stewardship, and Seed Sovereignty by The Seed Ambassadors Project (That’s us!). 4th Edition, January 2010. 38 pages. 5th edition coming soon! (Yes, we said that last year. And yes, we still mean it.) Our small publication/zine on seed saving. Contains basic background information and fundamental concepts of seed saving…
Around The World in 80 Plants: An Edible Perennial Vegetable Adventure For Temperate Climates. By Stephen Barstow. 1st ed, 2014. 304 pages. This book is such a gem. In Around the World in 80 Plants, Barstow shows us how many (80!) perennial vegetables can be easily integrated into our gardens and diets. The book includes…
Blackberries in July: A Forager’s Field Guide to Inner Peace By Tom A. Titus. 1st edition, 2012. Autographed. 147 pages. We are not in the business of selling books for pleasure reading, but Blackberries in July is such a great read that we couldn’t resist adding it to the short list of our book offerings…
Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener’s and Farmer’s Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving By Carol Deppe. 2nd edition, 2000. 348 pages. Possibly the most important and entertaining garden book currently in print. Reading this book will empower your seed stewardship abilities and catapult you further into a world of plant fun.
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land By Leah Penniman. 2018. 368 pages. In 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were Black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by Black people—a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession….
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners By Suzanne Ashworth. 2nd edition, 2002. Paperback. 228 pages. This is the seed saving reference book. It describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. Details include botanical classification; flower structure and means of pollination; required population size and isolation distance;…
The New Farmer’s Almanac, Volume VI: Adjustments and Accommodations By The Greenhorns. 2023. Paperback. 300 pages. Foreword by Severine Von Tscharner Fleming. The newest volume of the eclectic biannual anthology from Greenhorns, a grassroots network for recruiting, promoting, and supporting new American farmers. The New Farmer’s Almanac Volume VI: Adjustments and Accommodations seeks to recognize…
The New Vegetable Growers Handbook: A Users Manual for the Organic Vegetable Garden By Frank Tozer. Revised ed., 2016. Paperback. 304 pages. A must-have resource for every grower. Covering over 80 common plant types (from amaranth to wheat), in addition to many herbs and edible weeds, this book is remarkably informative. Tozer gives fairly specific…
The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer’s Guide to Vegetable Seed Production By John Navazio. 1st edition, 2012. 388 pages. Paperback. This gorgeous textbook style book has everything you need to know about producing high quality seed crops for most vegetables using organic methods. Information includes isolation distance, population size, genetic maintenance, and tips and tricks…
The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times By Carol Deppe. 1st edition, 2010. 384 pages. This truly is a gardening book like no other. Written in an engaging style, it has loads of information on how to successfully grow potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs – even with constraints ranging from a…
The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Saving Seed Edited by Lee Buttala and Shanyn Siegel, written by Jared Zystro and Micaela Colley. 1st ed, 2015. Paperback. 390 pages with 350 color photographs. The Seed Garden is a wonderful book that is the result of a joint project between the Organic Seed Alliance and…
The Transition Document: Toward a Biologically Resilient Agriculture By Harry MacCormack. 4th edition, 2009. Paperback. 200 pages. This is the most comprehensive book we have found about the big picture issues of organic agriculture. It contains in-depth scientific and experiential information about soils and soil biology, chemicals, field practices, compost and compost tea, and the…
Comic Book: Adventures in Seed Saving #1: Squash By Quin Shakra and Goda Trakumaite. 2018. 8 pages. “Try This At Home!” Seed Saving is for everyone! Follow this fun comic book to begin your own Adventures in Seed Saving! Features step by step instructions and fun illustrations on everything from choosing the variety and growing…
Comic Book: Adventures in Seed Saving #2: Tomato By Quin Shakra and Goda Trakumaite. 2022. 8 pages. “Try This At Home!” Seed Saving is for everyone! Follow this fun comic book to begin your own Adventures in Seed Saving! Features step by step instructions and fun illustrations on everything from choosing the variety and growing…
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