Category Archives: Plants

Janisse Ray wins Sustainable Literature Award

The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food, won the prize for Agriculture in the Sustainable Literature Awards, according to the Santa Monica Mirror, 11 September 2013.

From the book:

“If you haven’t heard what’s happening with seeds, let me tell you. They’re disappearing, about like every damn thing else. . . . But I’m not going to talk about anything that’s going to make us feel hopeless, or despairing, because there’s no despair in a seed.”

Other awards for The Seed Underground:

Gold Award of Achievement for Best Book Writing from the Garden Writers Association
Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner: Green Living
Booklist’s Top Ten Crafts and Gardening Books of 2012
American Society of Journalists and Authors Arlene Eisenberg Award for Writing that Makes a Difference
American Horticultural Society Book Award
Silver Award of Achievement from the Garden Writers Association

From the publisher: Continue reading

Zucca-pumpkins

At Downtown Valdosta Farm Days this morning (9AM-1PM), a cross of a pumpkin and a zucca:

Cross of a pumpkin and a zucca
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 September 2013.

Gretchen also has pumpkins, zuccas, rosemary, and other good stuff.

-jsq