With this exciting book, you can create a connection to traditional and contemporary cultures in your own backyard. Native Harvest explains clearly and straightforwardly that anyone can grow foods and other plants that have traditionally grown in the American Southwest. Learn to grow Hopi Blue Corn or the Tohono O'odham Yellow Meated melon.
Native Harvest highlights individual plants, exploring the plant's cultural history and traditional uses, as well as providing easy-to-follow planting instruction. It's the best first step to your own authentic southwestern garden.
Kevin Dahl is the former Executive Director of Native Seeds/SEARCH, a nonprofit that works to conserve, distribute, and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seed, their wild relatives, and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwest and northwest Mexico.
ISBN: 9781583690604
Genre: Foodways
Format: Paperback
Trim size: 6" x 9"
Page count: 64 pages
Published by Western National Parks Association in 2006
Written by Kevin Dahl
Photography by Amy Haskell
Audience: General, Adult
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