Description: Just four annual crops (corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans) account for 75% of the calories consumed by people. We are missing out on a tremendous bounty of perennial foods--foods that can not only enrich our diets but help heal the land and combat climate change.
In Living Roots, a passionate group of experts from wide-ranging backgrounds come together to explore the promise of perennial foods. In this book, you'll hear from Indigenous scientists and community leaders who are working to restore buffalo prairies and traditions of berry gathering. You'll also hear from urban visionaries planting food forests. And you'll hear from scientists and farmers who are developing perennial grains, from sorghum to silphium. Living Roots is a vital introduction to this burgeoning movement and an invaluable resource for sustainable farming advocates, including anyone who cares about the future of food.Review Quotes: "Living Roots is a chorus of hymns to our relationship to the land and, through it, to the rest of the web of life. Together, these voices call us away from the loneliness of extraction and back toward reciprocity, memory, and care. Moving through forest, grassland, and grain, this book reminds us that perennial foods are more than a technique: they are a different way of belonging to the earth. Rooted in Indigenous stewardship and alive to the urgencies of climate, justice, and survival, Living Roots is both witness and invitation: to live, at last, as if our future depends on the lives around us."---Raj Patel, filmmaker and author of Stuffed & Starved