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Open Source Seed Banks
Open Source Seed Banks?
Just reading up on Mission 2 and already my brain is humming. I just watched Food Inc. a couple of weeks ago and now, after reading the Time article on future food shortages, http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1870766,00.html
I am struck by another Urgent Evoke!!!!!! Food Inc taught me about Monsanto and the monopoly they have on genetically modified seed and I shudder to think that they are already in place to control the seed supply. Because of this all too likely inevitability, I am researching "Seed Banks" for urban gardners.
After reading about survival seed banks - I think this idea would be a good foundation for an urban garden as well. The goal for a sustainable garden would be to use seed that is non-hybrid and open pollinated so that the seeds from the vegetables/fruits can be collected and used the next year.
Survival Seed Bank is a small box that contains anywhere from 20-30 differentvegetable varieties of seeds, depending from manufacturer. Each seed bank has few hundreds to few thousands seeds of each vegetable packed into a paper or plastic bags. These small bags are then put into a plastic or metal container which makes the survival seed bank.
All the survival seeds are non hybrid and open pollinated, because you can collect seeds from vegetables grown from non hybrid seeds. Thus, you buy your survival seed bank, grow vegetables, save the seeds from the vegetables and can continue to grow vegetables the next year.
Survival seeds in Survival Seed Banks are hand picked for their hardiness, nutritional value, germination rate and of course, storage life.
In every survival seed bank, beyond the seeds, you will find helpful information about growing and harvesting vegetables and instructions for storing seeds. This is a very important step that needs to be done properly, because failing to store the seeds in the right way could mean that you won’t have enough seeds to plant the following year.
In case of some climate disaster like flood or economic crises, the ability to grow your own food could be the only way for long term survival for you and your family. It the food supply runs out and there is no way to fill it again, planting a Survival Garden and using survival seeds will be the best solution.
This post will be used to research and log "Open Source" ie; open pollinated and heirloom seed producers who are providing seed at a reasonable (non-disaster ecomnomy) price. The list will be added to as I continue my research.
ABCeeds - This is a wonderful site with a great deal of teaching for beginners!
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Comment by Linda Holt on March 12, 2010 at 1:18pm
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Thanks 'chelle and Willy, I think this is imperative and will be a God-send to the world.
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Comment by Martin Dyer on March 12, 2010 at 8:00pm
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Good job! =)
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