Kentucky Heirloom Seeds: Growing, Eating, Saving by Bill Best with Dobree Adams

This charming book takes a true grass-roots approach despite being chock-full of vital information. Generous to a fault, it holds up and tells the stories of dozens of Kentucky seed-savers, rather than focusing on Billy Best, arguably the state’s quintessential practitioner!  The reader here can learn everything needed to become a seed-saver. Both authors have distinguished themselves in other arenas as well as gardening. Bill Best, a native of Haywood County, North Carolina, with a long career as a teacher at Berea College, holds a PhD in Appalachian Studies and has written ten books. Dobree Adams is known as a fiber artist and photographer. "In the expanding contemporary world of heirloom seed savers, Bill Best is already legend with over 700 varieties of discrete beans and hundreds of tomatoes stockpiled and catalogued at his farm outside of Berea, Kentucky. Best is distinguished not only for his collection of seeds, but for his keen interest in the stories that accompany them and h