Expats: save those seeds!
In an interesting article. the New York Times has proposed that the traditional seeds that once made up the vast variety of food plants grown in Italy has started to disappear.
My neighbors save seeds and use them year after year, if you live in the country, I’ll bet some of yours do, too.
I’d like to propose that we who live in the country talk to our neighbors with ortos and ask about the seeds they use, ask further who else there is they can introduce us to who uses old seeds. Now is the time to do it, because now is when the seeds are in and are also in their minds.
We can contact the study group in Perugia and point them right at the seeds that we find. Some will be winners, some not, but nothing will happen if everyone doesn’t try.
Calabria? Puglia? Emilia-Romana? Le Marche? All of italy … rise up and save those seeds!
12 comments November 28th, 2007
