{"id":1220,"date":"2013-09-19T12:56:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T16:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2013-09-19T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T16:59:08","slug":"janisse-ray-wins-sustainable-literature-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/janisse-ray-wins-sustainable-literature-award.html","title":{"rendered":"Janisse Ray wins Sustainable Literature Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nThe Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food,\r\nwon the prize for Agriculture in the Sustainable Literature Awards,\r\naccording to\r\n\r\nthe Santa Monica Mirror, 11 September 2013<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nFrom the book:\r\n

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\r\n\r\n“If you haven’t heard what’s happening with seeds, let me tell you.\r\nThey’re disappearing, about like every damn thing else. . . . But\r\nI’m not going to talk about anything that’s going to make us feel\r\nhopeless, or despairing, because there’s no despair in a seed.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nOther awards for The Seed Underground:\r\n

\r\n<\/a>\r\nGold Award of Achievement for Best Book Writing from the Garden Writers Association \r\n
\r\n\r\nNautilus Book Awards Gold Winner: Green Living<\/a>\r\n
\r\nBooklist’s Top Ten Crafts and Gardening Books of 2012\r\n
\r\nAmerican Society of Journalists and Authors Arlene Eisenberg Award for Writing that Makes a Difference \r\n
\r\nAmerican Horticultural Society Book Award \r\n
\r\nSilver Award of Achievement from the Garden Writers Association \r\n<\/em>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nFrom the publisher:\r\n

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\r\nWith a quiet urgency The Seed Underground reminds us that while our\r\nunderlying health, food security, and sovereignty may be at stake as\r\nseeds disappear, so, too, are the stories, heritage, and history\r\nthat passes between people as seeds are passed from hand to hand.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nAnd\r\n\r\nhere’s Janisse reading from the book<\/a>:\r\n

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