Seeds are so weird! I put these fresh collected seeds into a bag together in July 2024. They've spent almost ten months doing absolutely nothing through all my experiments - light, dark, warm, cool... And now suddenly they're all sprouting at once, it's like magic.
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
@lavaeolus @academicchatter And here's the important story about Abram Kameraz, a scientist who tried to save everything of Vavilov's #seedbank what he could: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/food-source-famine-leningrad-seed-bank-nikolai-vavilov
Who will do this work now in the USA?
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
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/
Small Is The New Great! How to fight against the sludge of 2025 - and how the tiniest things can change the world. I would be happy if you can find some hope in my new blogpost: 
https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/025f4904-2364-4711-8907-f7e55841993f
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Saw this at the current exhibit at Wash U's Kemper Art Museum. The whole exhibit is about seeds and the art is lovely, but this really stunned me. The drawers are full of seeds taken from plants growing locally, which you can take.
There’s more to #Ottawa than manicured lawns and pretty petals.
Thanks to multiple grassroots efforts, Ottawa’s bountiful greenery is getting more sustainable as #rewilding efforts are on the rise. Here are four projects that deserve attention and support.
#urbanrewilding #cities #seeds
https://www.rewildingmag.com/4-ways-ottawa-is-rewilding-and-your-city-can-too/
Am Samstag ist #Saatgut #Tauschbörse in der Berliner Stadtbibliothek. Ich kann leider nicht hin, aber ich weiß hier gibt's einige, die da vielleicht Bock drauf haben! 13-17h! 
#Berlin #Seeds #Tauschen #Samen #Garten
https://www.zlb.de/veranstaltungsuebersicht/bunte-saatgut-tauschboerse/
My real weakness when it comes to hoarding seeds is peas, especially shelling varieties that can grow up a tall trellis. My neighbors at the community garden think I'm crazy to devote so much space to them, but they are the crazy ones for not doing the same. #seeds #allotment #peas #pisum #gardening #VegetableGardening
I cleaned up my seed bank last week. Most of the packets sit unused because I simply don't have space for all the plants. But I keep buying them, as one does. #seeds #plants #garden #gardening #allotment #VegetableGardening
Don't give up on seeds that have been stored for years
Turnip seedlings from seed packed for 2014!
I planted these a few days ago
the weather is in their favor to make it to harvest
There are still good things happening in the world. Today, Svalbard seed vault is receiving more than 14,000 new samples from around the world.
Hmm, interesting story about a variety of hot pepper revived, thanks to someone's grandfather, seeds in the bottom of a freezer, and treating arthritis with beestings. Also connected with slavery and Haiti.
BBC: The US pepper that was nearly lost
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240216-the-us-pepper-that-was-nearly-lost #gardening #ethnobotany #seeds #food
