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As one of the people at the forefront of seed saving and trading for over fifty years, Best has helped preserve numerous varieties of beans, tomatoes, corn, squashes, and other fruits and vegetables, along with the family stories and experiences that are a fundamental part of this world. While corporate agriculture privileges a few flavorless but hardy varieties of daily vegetables, seed savers have worked tirelessly to preserve genetic diversity and the flavors rooted in the Southern Appalachian Mountains - referred to by plant scientists as one of the vegetative wonders of the world.
Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste will introduce readers to the cultural traditions associated with seed saving, as well as the remarkable people who have used grafting practices and hand-by-hand trading to keep alive varieties that would otherwise have been lost. As local efforts to preserve heirloom seeds have become part of a growing national food movement, Appalachian seed savers play a crucial role in providing alternatives to large-scale agriculture and corporate food culture.
Part flavor guide, part people's history, Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste will introduce you to a world you've never known - or perhaps remind you of one you remember well from your childhood. Toon meer Toon minder. Recensie s In the broadest sense, this is a book about the sustainability of our food system, culture, and communities. With beans, as in much of life, maintaining and cultivating diversity improve our lot. Last winter, we finally met.
Paperback , pages. God Bless you Bill Best Students of Appalachia will marvel at the collection of words used to describe beans: Megan added it Nov 01, My only criticism is there is some slight repetition.
I could not tell him how I felt because I knew I would cry. But watching the elder Bill Best instruct the youthful Chef Jeremy Ashby in the finer points of heirloom seed saving and history, I found my heart was filled with boundless joy. The legacy will continue! That one moment was worth the trip up the Mountain Parkway. God Bless you Bill Best May your harvest always be plentiful and the bean beetles few!
But Bill also stirs the pot metaphorically by showing the Appalachian region and the world how place matters in a transnational political economy that has long said otherwise. For all the talk and attention given to globalization, Bill Best in his life's work and especially in this delightful book proves that place matters. The local is the place of deep abiding but also fragile knowledge.
If you doubt it, ask your heart and your tongue. Yes, it's a practical and useful handbook for good garden husbandry, but as it unfolds before your eyes, it reveals as well a vital world of southern Appalachian people, plants, food, and practice to nourish both body and soul. With a resurgence of interest in homegrown heirlooms, Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste offers new gardeners a peek into what they've been missing, and a few hints about how to connect with cultivating the incredible diversity of edible treasures that are available New gardeners looking for guidance and knowledgeable gardeners wanting to try a few new heirloom varieties will benefit from Best's years of experience.
If you're interested in history and enjoy reading first-person accounts, this is a wonderful treasure. Bill has taken the legacy of these wonderful seed-savers one step further than the seeds.
He's collected the stories and biographies into this great little book to preserve the how and why' behind some of our beloved seeds and plants. In the past, oral tradition was good enough for the family of Aunt Bessie' when they saved her seeds, but with the growing interest in heirlooms, getting it down in print makes sure that gardeners world-wide have access to the record. Sep 08, Kristi rated it liked it Shelves: An enjoyable look at the cultural and regional tradition in Appalachia of seed saving passed down through several generations.
Part horticulture, part memoir and story, Bill Best gives a delightful look into the vast array of heirloom vegetables, focusing most on beans and tomatoes, and the people that continue to ensure their survival. My only criticism is there is some slight repetition.
Also, email correspondence which Best quoted in full would have been better edited so as not to detract fro An enjoyable look at the cultural and regional tradition in Appalachia of seed saving passed down through several generations. Also, email correspondence which Best quoted in full would have been better edited so as not to detract from the main point. Jon Bastoni rated it really liked it Dec 21, Lesley Weaver rated it liked it Jun 21, Deborah Dorsey rated it really liked it Nov 07, Jane Sapp rated it it was amazing Jan 30, Teresa rated it really liked it Jun 01, Sam White rated it liked it Feb 19, Jennifer Kleinrichert rated it liked it Aug 08, Jennie Pollard rated it it was amazing May 25, Andrei Abel rated it it was amazing Oct 21, Anne Lawson rated it liked it Dec 04, Michelle Tolliver rated it liked it Aug 19, Mike rated it it was amazing May 17, Sheila rated it it was amazing Sep 25, Adam Schweigert rated it liked it Mar 31, Brent marked it as to-read Apr 06, Tuck marked it as to-read Apr 25, Shruti marked it as to-read May 10, Deb marked it as to-read Sep 15, Karen Fleeman marked it as to-read Feb 19, Cynthia Skelton marked it as to-read Feb 24, Robin marked it as to-read Jul 31, Melanie Hobby marked it as to-read Sep 12, Laura Sorrells marked it as to-read Feb 17, Monica marked it as to-read Sep 30, Paige Hamack marked it as to-read Oct 09, Carol marked it as to-read Jun 13, Kathely marked it as to-read Jul 04,