Contents
Foreword by Miguel A. Altieri
Foreword by Wendell Berry
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Enduring Seeds—The Sacred Lotus and the Common Bean
Part One: A New World Perspective
Chapter One: The Flowering of Diversity
Chapter Two: Diversity Lost: The Wet and the Dry Tropics
Chapter Three: Fields Infused with Wildness
Chapter Four: Invisible Erosion: The Rise and Fall of Native Farming
Chapter Five: A Spirit Earthly Enough: Locally Adapted Crops and Persistent Cultures
Chapter Six: New and Old Ways of Saving: Botanical Gardens, Seed Banks, Heritage Farms, and Biosphere Reserves
Part Two: The Local Parables
Chapter Seven: Wild-Rice: The Endangered, the Sacred, and the Tamed
Chapter Eight: The Exile and the Holy Anomaly: Wild American Sunflowers
Chapter Nine: Lost Gourds and Spent Soils on the Shores of Okeechobee
Chapter Ten: Drowning in a Shallow Gene Pool: The Factory Turkey
Chapter Eleven: Harvest Time: Northern Plains Agricultural Change
Chapter Twelve: Turning Foxholes into Compost Heaps, Shooting Ranges into Shelterbelts
Bibliographic Essays
Literature Cited
Index