Cultivating practices: saving seed as green citizenship? From: Environments | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: Phillips, Catherine | COPYRIGHT 2005 Wilfrid Laurier University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Abstract

In this article it is asserted that saving seed is a political practice. This understanding stands in contrast to dominant constructions of seed saving as anachronistic and/or private and therefore not of political concern. While seed savers engage in the more accepted ways of being political in our society such as deputations and letter writing campaigns; they also pursue more direct, local, embodied engagements--by actually saving seeds and sharing them with o...