A Sisters of the Soil Novel/With Recipes by Sonia Day Friesen Press 306 pages, $31.99 In 2006, a group of eight women met for the first time in New York, “lured by a press release from the Brooklyn ...

It sounds like a quaint proverb—“don’t eat your seed corn.” For the scientists at the world’s first seed bank, it was a matter of life, death and honor. For more than two years during ...