Seed Savers Exchange

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In my last post I wrote about human seed, the sperm, in this article I will write about plant seeds and Seed Savers Exchange.

This nonprofit organization provides a way for people to trade or purchase heirloom seeds, ensuring that you'll always have access to high-quality produce. Plus, by being a part of the Seed Savers Exchange, you're helping to preserve heirloom varieties of fruits and vegetables that might otherwise be lost forever. So if you're interested in gardening or simply want to find a new way to get your fruits and veggies, continue read this article!

Seed Savers Exchange is the perfect solution to the problem of crop seed diversity and seed availability and encourage participants to grow and save seeds from heirloom and open-pollinated varieties.

The exchange creates a community of individuals who can share, trade, and swap seeds. This is done through a monthly newsletter. It also has a list for thousands of varieties that are available for saving such as tomatoes, squash, or peppers.

Seed Saver Exchange also has a gene bank to preserve seed to next generations. In this time, when we gene manipulate many plants to make better harvest it is very important that we preserve heirloom seeds. 

Manipulation of the nature could be necessary in one way, but extremely dangerous in an other way. 

The Earth has not become what it is by an accident, million of years have evolved the nature into what it is today.

The nature has created a balance, which we are trying to manage in our own way.

Gene manipulating could, I don't say it will, but it could destroy that balance.

And what will happens after that.

We have changed the temperature on Earth by large carbon dioxide emissions, and most of them for about 200 years ago when the industrial revolution started and we needed a lot of energy. Most, or all, of them from coal.

But that is another story. 

But we do things that affect the environment.

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Back to Seed Saver Exchange. 

What will happens in the future with the nature if we are trying to control it in every way.

That is something to think about!

But our tries to control the nature also helps starving and the large population that is on the Earth. And larger will it be.

We have to produce more food in the future. Better food from less energy and water consuming methods.

That's a fact.

But we also have to preserve the past, and that's why Seed Saver Exchange is so important.

Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange has worked to ensure the biodiversity of our food system and our planet by preserving interesting, treasured, and open-pollinated seed varieties in their Heritage Farm seed bank and empowering landscapers and ranchers around the world to develop, reap, and share legacy seeds while also sharing the compelling stories behind them.

Diane Ott Whealy was inspired to help create Seed Savers Exchange using legacy seeds for treasured tomato and flower assortments generously brought to Iowa by her Bavarian wonderful ancestors during the 1870s. 

The news of the organization quickly spread, and a small group of concerned nursery workers began conserving and exchanging their own rare, treasure collections, as well as donating seeds to their collection.

The Exchange is a seed exchange, where greens keepers from around USA offer seeds they've created. 

The Exchange is worked with Seed Savers Exchange, a cause dedicated to ensuring and sharing inheritance seeds. The affiliation started with the sharing of seeds inside a little group of people in 1975 and has continued to reach out over the last 40+ years. The Exchange you find at Seed Savings Exchange is a continuation of that training and works with the sharing and preservation of seeds among maintenance people.

The affiliation keeps a Seed Bank containing in excess of 25,000 combinations at their headquarters in Decorah, Iowa. A part of the combinations from the Bank are appropriated in the Exchange and 600+ arrangements are made fiscally available to individuals overall in the affiliation's seed file. The pay from the seed bargains, aswell as gifts and enlistments, serve to stay aware of the affiliation's collection and progress and enable the custom of saving and sharing seeds.

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By joining with new seed stewards to continue seed saving habits into the future, members of the Exchange have preserved a large number of interesting gems from extinction. Many of the gems that have recently penetrated the commercial core were first shared here, and many more legacies can still be found in the nurseries of this neighborhood.

This grassroots seed-saving community is preserving and sharing America's horticultural past for future generations. The more people who participate, the more solid it will be.

Thousands of homegrown, heirloom, and open-pollinated seeds are offered by Exchange members to other Exchange members. The term "homegrown" simply refers to seeds that were not grown in a commercial setting. They define "heirloom" as a seed that has been passed down through families and communities from generation to generation.

All of the seeds supplied by Exchange listers are open-pollinated and non-hybrid, which means that if you develop these seeds into adult plants, they will generate seeds that you can harvest and plant again the following year. They're also non-patented, which means they can be freely grown, conserved, and shared. Many Exchange listers, but not all, provide organically cultivated seed.

In the Exchange, you'll also find potato tubers, garlic bulbs, apple tree cuttings, and other non-seed plant propagation materials.

Anyone can browse the Exchange, but to request or list seeds, you must first create an account.

You can do it here: Seed Savers Exchange 

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