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Inside The World’s “Doomsday Vault”
Inside The World’s “Doomsday Vault” Imagine that the unthinkable has happened. A massive asteroid impact triggers a “nuclear winter” effect, or one of the world’s most dangerous supervolcanos erupts. Maybe Donald Trump gets in an epic Twitter feud with Kim Jong-Un that initiates World War 3. Either way, things are going sideways, and the fate […]
Climate Change Adds Urgency To Push to Save World’s Seeds
Climate Change Adds Urgency To Push to Save World’s Seeds In the face of rising temperatures and worsening drought, the world’s repositories of agricultural seeds may hold the key to growing food under increasingly harsh conditions. But keeping these gene banks safe and viable is a complicated and expensive challenge. During the 872-day German siege of […]
Monsanto Losing Its Grip?
Monsanto Losing Its Grip? The earnings warning was just a precursor. Monsanto, the world’s largest seed manufacturer, is not having a good year. The company recently slashed its 2016 earnings forecast from the $5.10-$5.60 per share it had forecast in December to $4.40-$5.10, claiming that about 25-30 cents of the reduction was due to the […]
Tips On Saving Seeds
Tips On Saving Seeds There are no guarantees in this world we live in today. We can’t rest assured that the grocery store will always be there or that its shelves will always be stocked full of food. We can’t count on our local home supply store having rows and rows of different seed packets to choose […]
Monsanto and the Heirloom Seed
MONSANTO AND THE HEIRLOOM SEED “Control oil and you control nations,” said US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s. “Control food and you control the people.” World food control is almost in place thanks to the reduction of seed diversity with genetically modified seeds being distributed by only a few transnational corporations. Genetic engineering has […]
Tips From A Survivalist On Saving Seeds
Tips From A Survivalist On Saving Seeds There are no guarantees in this world we live in today. We can’t rest assured that the grocery store will always be there or that its shelves will always be stocked full of food. We can’t count on our local home supply store having rows and rows of […]
How to Harvest Your Own Seeds From Fruit and Vegetables for Propagation into Nursery
How to Harvest Your Own Seeds From Fruit and Vegetables for Propagation into Nursery Harvesting your own seeds from fruit and vegetables for propagation into a nursery significantly reduces your costs by over 50 percent. In order to reap the maximum benefit, you must give your plants the help they need to produce healthy seeds. […]
Here’s Why a Prepper Homestead May Not a Good Plan for Survival
Here’s Why a Prepper Homestead May Not a Good Plan for Survival Lots of preppers are convinced that they’re going to “live off the land” should the world as we know it come tumbling down around our ears. Seed banks are stockpiled, books are purchased, and people are confident that they’ll be able to outlive everyone […]
The Chilling Thing an Industry Insider Said about Glyphosate, GMOs, and Why He Sold His Conventional Seeds Company
The Chilling Thing an Industry Insider Said about Glyphosate, GMOs, and Why He Sold His Conventional Seeds Company Dan Romig, who along with his father co-founded Trigen Seed LLC in 1993 and bloodstresold to Limagrain Cereal Seeds in 2010, is an insider in the seeds industry. His father was head of R&D at Northrup King, a subsidiary of […]
Monsanto Bites Back
Monsanto Bites Back Monsanto, the U.S. agribusiness giant that controls a quarter of the entire global seed market, could soon be even bigger and more powerful than it already is, following renewed speculation over its interest in Swiss agrichemicals firm Syngenta. The logic behind the deal is clear: Monsanto ranks as the world’s largest purveyor […]
Duluth City Council Unanimously Passes Seed Sharing Resolution – Shareable
Duluth City Council Unanimously Passes Seed Sharing Resolution – Shareable. Seed activists can put a mark in the win column. Recently, the city council in Duluth, Minnesota passed a resolution supporting seed saving and sharing in the city (see video below of the council meeting). They also requested changes in state seed law to allow seed sharing without […]
The Largest Seed Exchange in the World Inspires Change – Shareable
The Largest Seed Exchange in the World Inspires Change – Shareable. Ethical consumers in the US are increasingly concerned with the seeds used in the production of their food. However, this has been an issue in Europe for many years. In fact, there are several transnational seedsaver networks, like Arche Noah, which have become policy reform experts […]
Seed Saving, Part 2: Practical Ways to Save Seed
Seed Saving, Part 2: Practical Ways to Save Seed. Having learned some background knowledge on why you would want to save seeds in the first place (see Part I), you may now be wondering how to go about doing it. There are many ways to do this, and though it can be as simple as keeping […]
