My current pet peeve is grocery stores shelving couscous in the rice and grains section. It's PASTA! Drives me crazy, and likely results in some people believing that couscous is a small yellow seed that has some sort of health benefit. #couscous #seeds #pasta #grains #food #semolina #flour #groceries #botany

Some new #FoodPlant #seeds have arrived

Spent lunch checking on the seedlings and filling the bird feeder. Seedlings are: broccoli, microgreens, onions.
#seeds #SeedStarting #gardening

After a false start, back to broccoli sprouts!
#seeds #SeedStarting #broccoli #gardening

It sure is about that time…
#seeds #SeedStarting #gardening

More than 100,000 African #seeds put in #Svalbard Global #SeedVault for safekeeping
Seeds of 177 species from across #Africa to be stored in Norway to preserve #crop diversity in case of disaster.
Among the latest additions are seeds critical to building #climate resilience, such as the tree Faidherbia albida, which turns nitrogen into ammonia and nitrates, and Cordia africana, the Sudan teak, a tree renowned for its strength and durability.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/27/more-than-100000-african-seeds-put-in-svalbard-vault-for-safekeeping

In these times of processed #food proliferation we might forget that all land derived #food depends on #seeds, #spores and #soils. Farming (both urban and rural) will remain key to our ongoing survival.

https://theconversation.com/when-farmers-and-scientists-collaborate-biodiversity-and-agriculture-can-thrive-heres-how-250333

"Our desire to preserve is strongly linked to a narrative of loss, both for #biodiversity writ large and for rare heirloom #seeds. But we recognize the need for biodiversity and destroy it in the same breath. What if we protected the Amazon instead of just the genetics within it? What if we supported small-scale diversified agriculture instead of industrialized monoculture?"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/02/seeds-biodiversity-hurricane-helene

Chiles growing, tomatoes just started.

Cherokee Nation Sends Heirloom Seeds To ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault In Norway

"The Cherokee Nation is the first US Tribe to deposit culturally important crop seeds in the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard"

by @grrlscientist via #Substack

#DoomsdaySeedVault #seeds #FoodCrops #Cherokee #Norway #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/cherokee-nation-sends-heirloom-seeds

Elon Musk Goes After Bunkers Full of Seeds

"This should unnerve every American who eats. Our food system is only as safe as our ability to respond to the next plant disease or other emergent threat"

unpaywalled link to NYT Opinion
https://archive.ph/X14Tw#selection-721.8-721.48

Sign up for the LEAF (Literacy and Food Education) community growing initiatives newsletter. https://libraryleaf.ie/ #Libraries #Gardening #Growing #Seeds #Education #Literacy #FreeSeeds #Ireland #SolarPunkSunday #Community #Climate #Sustainability

Grow It Yourself (GIY), "providing resources to help people grow their own food at home, at school and in the community.." https://giy.ie/ #SolarPunkSunday #Gardening #Growing #Seeds #Education #Literacy #FreeSeeds #Ireland #Community #Climate #Sustainability

#BurlingtonVT #PublicLibrary restarts #PlantExchange program

by EMMA FLETCHER-FRAZER, Mar 13, 2025

BURLINGTON — "The Burlington Public Library brought back this week its popular plant exchange program.

The Plant/#SeedSwap program uses a shelf within the library that holds a variety of #seeds, starts and #propagations."

Source:
https://www.goskagit.com/news/local_news/burlington-public-library-restarts-plant-exchange-program/article_33dedc12-ff9a-11ef-a11a-9b4ec2643a9f.html
#LibrariesRule #SeedLibrary #PlantSwap #Vermont #SolarPunkSunday

So #ElonMusk went after a depository of carefully preserved #seeds and #plants and fired the #scientists who look after them, putting at risk one of the world's sources of #genetic #diversity for #crops.
And this #NYT article complains only about the #danger for Americans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/opinion/doge-elon-musk-usda-crops.html?unlocked_article_code=1.504.kCEk.N097nAkPJN0u&smid=nytcore-android-share

#capitalism #techbros #oligarchy #doge #fascism #stupidity #science #food

Who are the most important world changers? Those who shout 'make XY great again' and walk over dead bodies in their greed? Or the more quiet ones who get together, let tiny seeds slip through their fingers, swap old varieties, and revitalise this important knowledge? https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/025f4904-2364-4711-8907-f7e55841993f

I want to support seed companies but I've already spent my seed budget for the year, so in lieu of buying more seeds I'm going to toot about them.

My favorite seed source isn't a seed company at all, it's an "open access seed bank" so they carry an incredibly eclectic range of species, all in aid of grassroots (no pun intended) propagation and preservation.

I speak of course of J. L. Hudson: https://www.jlhudsonseeds.net/

Are you busy, ?

Here's something to do:
"20 Seeds You MUST Grow in March"

Daisy Creek Farms with Jag Singh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p2n0p5QcTI