{"id":1470,"date":"2014-11-12T07:22:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T12:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2014-11-12T07:22:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T12:22:33","slug":"protecting-seeds-and-their-stories-the-sacred-in-everyday-life-permaculturenews-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1470","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Seeds and Their Stories: The Sacred in Everyday Life &#8211; PermacultureNews.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2014\/11\/10\/protecting-seeds-and-their-stories\/\">Protecting Seeds and Their Stories: The Sacred in Everyday Life &#8211; PermacultureNews.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">The recent UN Climate Change Summit, the marches in New York and around the world, once again brought into our collective consciousness the need for real change. As did the shocking news of the global loss of species. The vital need to protect our ecosystems is part of a cry that embraces the whole earth, from the smallest creature to the vast oceans. And in the midst of this call to cease our globally self-destructive behavior is a story that touches each of us, every day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">It is in every bite of an apple, every bowl of rice, every piece of bread we butter. It is the essential and elemental story of seeds, how we are losing our heritage, and how this effects our soul as well as our body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">As I take my walk these early fall mornings, I pass by an old apple tree with gnarled and empty branches. Only a few weeks ago these same branches pushed over the hedgerow, laden with red and golden fruit. Nature\u2019s generosity is one of life\u2019s wonders; and yet, seeing these empty branches, I am also reminded of the hidden sadness of loss, knowing how once in this country we had around 5,000 apple varieties but now mostly grow only 15 varieties. Accordian, Camack Sweet, Haywood June, Sally Crocket, are just a few names of what has been lost. Like apples, all seeds, our most essential source of sustenance, are losing their biodiversity. They are suffering the same fate as much of the natural world, with many varieties being made extinct\u201475% lost from the world\u2019s fields1: yet another example of what our mechanized world is destroying, the ecocide we are witnessing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protecting Seeds and Their Stories: The Sacred in Everyday Life &#8211; PermacultureNews.org. The recent UN Climate Change Summit, the marches in New York and around the world, once again brought into our collective consciousness the need for real change. As did the shocking news of the global loss of species. The vital need to protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[72,141,1057,1058],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-biodiversity","tag-climate-change","tag-ecosystems","tag-seed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}