Stalking the Wild Sweetgrass Domestication and Horticulture of the Grass Used in African-American Coiled Basketry /

• Main Author: Dufault, Robert J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Plant Science,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant ecology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant anatomy.; Plant development.; Plant physiology.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Plant Ecology.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Physiology.; Plant Anatomy/Development.

Stalking the Wild Sweetgrass: Domestication and Horticulture of the Grass Used in African-American Coiled Basketry is concerned with the historical domestication of sweetgrass, the main construction/structural grass used in the three century old African-American tradition of coiled basketry in South...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The beginnings of change
• My time to get involved
• Getting to the grass roots of cultivation
• Getting more involved
• Sweetgrass Utopia in the Southeast – Little St. Simon’s Island
• Getting to know the basketmakers
• Sweetgrass Culture Workshop Oct. 24, 1992
• The concept of large scale sweetgrass plantations
• 2nd Site of large scale sweetgrass plantings – McLeod Plantation, James Island
• 3rd Site of large scale sweetgrass plantings – Dill Sanctuary, James Island
• Alternative ways to access sweetgrass
• Sweetgrass biology
• Sweetgrass horticulture -environmental considerations
• Seedling cultural practices
• Field production practices
• Concluding thoughts
• Afterthoughts.