In where our food comes from Gary talks about the famous Russian botanist who traveled the world looking for crop diversity to prevent future famines.
In growing food in a hotter drier land Gary talks about how to adapt to climate change.
Gary co-founded native seeds search Shop – Native-Seeds-Search
Where you can still find and buy historical landraces from the southwest.
He talks about landraces and the historical landrace concept in a lot of his books even for Turkeys. He also talks alot about wild crop relatives and the importance of geneflow with them and how indigenous peoples allowed that.
He definitely was an influence on me that led me to a similar place as Joseph even prior to 2016-2017. That along with Carol Deppe.
i know this is an old post, but i’m just starting to dive into gary paul nabhan’s work. currently reading mesquite: an arboreal love affair; growing food in a hotter, drier land; and a 2010 research paper titled “desert oases as genetic refugia of heritage crops”. i’m in southernmost baja california on the edge of the sonoran desert region, so his writings are very relevant for me here. but i think that growing food in a hotter, drier land could be useful to anyone experiencing a hotter, drier climate, as he himself says in the book!
I grew my little collection of Native Seed Search tomatoes this year and attempted a few crosses with them. I think the traditional landraces Native Seed Search sells and that Gary Paul Nabhan writes about in his many books are a great basis for adaptation gardening. Especially if things get hotter and drier as gary writes about in the growing food in a hotter drier land book. Though I really think everyone should read Enduring Seeds.