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Continuity and resistance: Central Vermont farmers' motivations for cultivating heirloom vegetables.

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正題名/作者:	Continuity and resistance: Central Vermont farmers' motivations for cultivating heirloom vegetables./
作者:	Nickerson, Virginia.
面頁冊數:	277 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-02, Section: B, page: 0608.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-02B.
標題:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
電子資源:	Download PDF (下載PDF全文)
ISBN:	9780542569722

Continuity and resistance: Central Vermont farmers' motivations for cultivating heirloom vegetables.
Nickerson, Virginia.

Continuity and resistance: Central Vermont farmers' motivations for cultivating heirloom vegetables. - 277 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-02, Section: B, page: 0608.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2006.

Heirloom vegetables have come to play an increasingly important role in the United States' food system, representing many of the values of the alternative agriculture and food movement. Yet few scholars have explored why commercial growers in the US cultivate heirloom varieties, despite the fact that they are often more costly to grow and market than hybrid varieties. This qualitative case study explores why commercial vegetable growers from two different generations choose to cultivate heirloom varieties, and relates their motivations to changes in the political geography and social organization of the local food system. The study is based on ethnographic field work and in-depth interviews with 23 growers from two cohorts: senior growers who grew up on subsistence farms in central Vermont prior to World War II, and younger growers who began to farm in central Vermont after the advent of the alternative agriculture movement in the 1970's. Although scientists argue that we should conserve older, farmer-developed varieties in order to preserve genetic diversity for future breeding efforts, the farmers in this study did not give food security as their primary motivation. Instead, the older generation continues to cultivate and consume varieties from their youth as a means of enacting regional cultural identity, while the younger generation cultivates and saves the seed from a wide range of "heirloom," or older, open-pollinated varieties from around the globe for their superior flavors and to practice a personal farming style that embraces a range of varieties and tasks. According the younger growers, they are also using open-pollinated varieties "from the past' to resist industrial agriculture and the threats of contamination from genetically modified crops, while simultaneously supporting local seed producers.

ISBN: 9780542569722Subjects--Topical Terms:

179385
Anthropology, Cultural.

Continuity and resistance: Central Vermont farmers' motivations for cultivating heirloom vegetables.
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