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Winterthur. Winterthur, DE 19735.
Rare plants.
Wolf River Nurseries. Rte. 67,
Buskirk, NY 12028. Vines,
berries, and trees.
Wood Prairie Farm. 49 Kinney Rd.,
Bridgewater, ME 04735. Organic
seed potatoes.
Yates Vegetable Seed Catalog for
Commercial Growers. P.O. Box
616, Toowoomba, Queensland,
Australia 4350. Specializes in
tropical varieties suitable for the
southern hemisphere. Free
international seed catalog.
*Yerba Buena Nursery. 19500 Skyline
Blvd., Woodside, CA 94062. Native
California plants. Excellent.
Seed Saving
Almekinders, Conny, and Niels
Louwaars. Farmers’ Seed
Production: New Approaches and
Practices. London: Intermediate
Technology Publications, 1999.
291 pp.
*Ashworth, Suzanne. Seed to Seed.
Decorah, IA: Seed Savers
Publications (3076 North Winn
Rd., Decorah, IA 52101), 1991.
222 pp.
Bubel, Nancy. “Saving Seeds.”
Mother Earth News,
September/October 1987, 58–63.
Department of Agronomy, Seed Saving
Project News, U.C. Davis,
Winter/Spring 1991. 13 pp.
Deppe, Carol. Breed Your Own
Vegetable Varieties. White River
Junction, VT: Chelsea Green,
2000. 367 pp.
Dremann, Craig. Vegetable Seed
Production. Redwood City, CA:
Redwood City Seed Co. (P.O. Box
360, Redwood City, CA 94064),
1974. 6 pp.
Gately, Barbara. Plant Pollination
Instructional Manual. Berkeley,
CA: U.C. Instructional Laboratory,
Graduate School of Education.
George, Raymond A. T. Vegetable
Seed Production. New York:
Longman, 1985. 318 pp.
———. Vegetable Seed Production,
2nd edition. New York: CABI
Publishing, 1999. 328 pp.
SEED CATALOGS • SEED SAVING • SEEDS/DIVERSITY • SEEDS/GMOs
Jason, Dan. Save Our Seeds, Save
Ourselves. Salt Spring Island,
Canada: Salt Spring Seeds (P.O.
Box 444, Ganges, Salt Spring
Island, BC V8K 2W1, Canada).
23 pp.
Johnston, Robert, Jr. Growing Garden
Seeds. Albion, ME: Johnny’s
Selected Seeds (Albion, ME
04910), 1976. 32 pp. Culture of
plants for saving seed.
Justice, Oren L., and Louis N. Bass.
Principles and Practices of Seed
Storage: Agriculture Handbook No.
506. Washington, DC: U.S. Government
Printing Office, 1978.
289 pp.
Manual Seed Cleaning Screens
Abundant Life Seed Co. (P.O. Box
772, Port Townsend, MA 98368.)
Available in the following mesh
sizes (in fractions of inches): 1 ⁄4,
1 ⁄8, 1 ⁄2, 1 ⁄16, and 1 ⁄30. Made of stainless
steel for long use. Screen
mesh and framed screens available
at a per-square-foot price.
Miller, Douglas C. Vegetable and
Herb Seed Growing for the Gardener
and Small Farmer. Hersey,
MI: Bullkill Creek Publishing,
1977. 46 pp. A good book to start
with.
Nabham, Gary Paul. Enduring
Seeds—Native American Agriculture
and Wild Plant Conservation.
Berkeley, CA: North Point
Press (850 Talbon Ave., Berkeley,
CA 94706), 1989. 225 pp.
“New Isn’t Necessarily Better.”
Harrowsmith Country Life,
January/February 1994.
Roberts, E. H., ed. Viability of Seeds.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University
Press, 1972. 448 pp.
*Rogers, Marc. Saving Seeds: The
Gardener’s Guide to Growing and
Storing Vegetable and Flower
Seeds. Pownal, VT: Storey, 1990.
185 pp.
“Seeds for Life.” ILEIA Newsletter,
March 1994.
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Seeds—The Yearbook of
Agriculture, 1961. Washington,
DC: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1961. 591 pp.
Seeds/Diversity
Benefits of Diversity—An Incentive
toward Sustainable Agriculture.
New York: United Nations Development
Program, 1992. 209 pp.
Cromwell, Elizabeth, and Steve
Wiggins. Sowing beyond the
State: NGOs and Seed Supply in
Developing Countries. London:
Overseas Development Institute
(Regent’s College, Inner Circle,
Regent’s Park, London NWI 4NS,
England), 1993. 143 pp.
*“Crop Genetic Erosion in the
Field.” The Seed Map (RAFI, P.O.
Box 655, Pittsboro, NC 27312).
Large chart.
Fowler, Cary, and Pat Mooney. Shattering—Food,
Politics, and the Loss
of Genetic Diversity. Tucson, AZ:
University of Arizona Press, 1990.
278 pp.
“Grain—Genetic Resources Action
International.” Grain Publications
List, Summer 1992.
“Plants and Seeds as Intellectual
Property.” The Seedhead News,
Winter 1994.
Seeds/GMOs
“A Storm Is Breaking Down on the
Farm,” Science and Technology,
December 14, 1992, 98–101.
“Are Gene-Altered Plants an Ecological
Threat? Test Is Devised.”
New York Times–Science,
June 22, 1993.
Biotechnology—An Activists’ Handbook.
Montpelier, VT: The Vermont
Biotechnology Working
Group (Rural Vermont, 15 Barre
St., Montpelier, VT 05602), 1991.
47 pp.
“The Conflict Between Farmers’
Rights and Breeders’ Rights.”
RAFI Action, Spring 1993, 4–5.
“Flaws in the Tailoring.” Christian
Science Monitor, March 21, 1994.
Gendel, Steven M., et al. Agricultural
Bioethics—Implications of Agricultural
Biotechnology. Ames, IA:
Iowa State University Press, 1990.
357 pp.
Goldberg, Rebecca, et al. Biotechnology’s
Bitter Harvest. Biotechnology
Working Group, 1990. 73 pp.
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