FRIDAY SURPRISE: Seedy characters.

Friday, February 19, 2010 Filed in: Friday Surprise!

Lots of folks, concerned with anything from global warming to economic collapse, are recommending that you have a garden. What's more, most of them say, you should be planting only non-hybrid varieties and saving the seed from those plants. Only by doing that can you hope to be self sufficient, or so the theory goes.

Whether you think such advice to be prescient or kooky, there are people who do this on a grand scale. Read The New Yorker's story about the global seed bank.

-=[ Grant ]=-

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