A
Seed Saving Guide for Gardeners and Farmers,
Organic Seed Alliance © 2010 OSA This publication is a free
download from organicseedalliance.org. It is a succinct guide with
few frills but a great deal of good data. A free publication that
is worth paying for! Organic Seed Alliance is a non-profit
relying on contributions to fight the invasion of hybrids and GMO
seeds in our lives. I suggest throwing a donation their way as
they deserve it.
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Breed
Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's & Farmer's Guide
to Plant Breeding & Seed Saving ,
Deppe, Carol © 2000 Chelsea Green This is the most exhaustive
and thorough book on the process of seed saving. Written with
loving appreciation of seeds like no other book I've ever read,
Carol Deppe is at once an authority on seeds and plant breeding
and a knowledgeable gardener whose books I snatch up and devour as
fast as possible. If you have interest in this field, buy this
book now.
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Enduring
Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation,
Nabham, Gary Paul, © 2002 North Point Press, Though not strictly
about saving seeds, this book, along with almost all of Nabham's
books give one the reasons to save seeds. I respect and admire
Nabham's work – he writes brilliantly and tells stories we need.
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Heirloom
Vegetable Gardening: A Master's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving,
and Cultural History,Weaver,
William Woys © 2003, Owl Publishing Company, (My copy
says 'Henry Holt.') Originally published in 1997, it is now out
of print and getting a copy can be hellish. It is a wonderful book
that needs to be put back in print because the research he put
into the book makes this to be the most informative books on
heirloom vegetables that has ever been published. Mother Earth
News has the entire book on a CD – you can find it on their
website – of course that doesn't duplicate having one's hands on
the book, but you will have all the data.
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The
Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed
Production, Navazio, John
©2012, Chelsea Green Publishing This new book was written to
fill the void in the marketplace that had no definitive text for
professional growers growing seeds organically for the organic
seed trade. This is an up and coming market as the world turns
more and more to organic produce and growers have begun to realize
that seed produced by growers using non-organic methods performs
best under non-organic regimens. Suddenly, there is a market for
organic seeds and varieties developed to grow in organic gardens.
This book is rigorous and is not light reading. Be prepared. But
is also chock full of data you will want to know sooner or later.
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Where
Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End
Famine, Nabhan, Gary Paul ©
2008 Shearwater Not a seed saving book, but Nikolay Vavilov's
research into the seeds of our foods is fascinating reading and
helps ground a reader in the history of seed collecting and the
reasons why we want to save seeds from the wilds. |
14 July, 2019
A Short Seed Saving Bibliography
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