Saving Seeds: A Home Gardener’s Guide to Preserving Plant Biodiversity

Saving Seeds: A Home Gardener’s Guide to Preserving Plant BiodiversityMuch of our food comes from seeds. But where do our seeds come from? And where are they going? For much of human history, farmers saved their own seed stocks to ensure a good harvest from year to year. In the mid twentieth century, governments became involved in seed saving, creating massive seed libraries cataloguing thousands of varieties. This biodiversity has come under attack in recent decades, as corporations have replaced heirloom varieties

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And so Shi-shi-etko carefully gathers her memories for safekeeping

readers may have some knowledge of why and how the Hermit Crab borrows an empty shell as it outgrows the current one

and shopping baskets carried Euro-American styles and concepts into aboriginal communities

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and the economy as uncertain as ever

Sheffield’s exploration of this time period

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and determined ab/originality

from coast to coast and beyond

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