Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener’s and Farmer’s Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving

2nd edition by Carol Deppe, 384 pages, 8½x11, softcover. “Why Save Seeds? Saving seeds is fun. Cleaning the seed, holding the clean seed in your hands, is magical. Gaze at the seed, run your fingers through it, play with it, and you can feel the connections…Unquenchable joy arises. It is so intense it puzzles you initially. Then you recognize it. It is the joy that comes from being who you are supposed to be and doing what you are meant to do.” Molecular geneticist turned seed breeder Carol Deppe knows seeds and shares information available nowhere else. Want to know how to design variety trials, or how to understand and appreciate the subtleties of selection? Want to reclaim the lost lore of our ancestors and relearn the traditions of seed saving and seed breeding? Let Deppe be your guide as you chart your own path with seeds one experiment at a time. -CR