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  3. I enjoyed this hour segment very much. I also enjoyed the documentary on Vandana Shive called “Bullshit.”

    The film shows Shiva all over India and in debate with Monsanto representatives. The title of the documentary is multi-leveled. It first introduces dried manure as a fuel for cooking and then proceeds to the wider topics of seed and industrialization.

    http://www.peaholmquist.com/bullshit/about.htm

  4. I spent 6 months with Vandana Shiva shooting footage of her in India for a documentary, and ended up starting and an heirloom seed biodiversity farm with her help, here in Santa Barbara. In celebration of planting heirloom seeds, we are offering a free packet of assorted heirlooms for the cost of shipping at http://www.onemilliongardens

    if you are going to plant a garden, make sure you have some natural seeds growing – we will need them in the years ahead…

  6. Seeds

    Dr. Alan Kapuler and a small group of individuals like him across the world held and developed organic and open-pollinated cultivars. It was Kapuler’s work identified as Peace Seeds that became the basis for Seeds Of Change, the first national company selling certified organic seeds. Our mutual colleague Dr. Carol Deepe’s now classic book BREED YOUR OWN VEGETABLE VARIETIES reveals the science that drives what is slowly becoming an organic seed industry.

    I worked with Harry MacCormack at Sunbow Farm in Oregon. We took off-the-shelf beans and grew them out in test plots. We also requested from the produce manager where the seeds came from. At my new location, I repeated that process and learned that organic red beans came from Turkey. Anyhow, they are organic, much cheaper than a seed packet, and not completely regulated at this time. Get them while you can even if just to start a small seed bank. Grow-outs are much better adapted to climate change than frozen seed banks.

    This is worth repeating and for all those not familiar with the battle; Monsanto is even seeking to regulate seed cleaners since these are expensive for the small farmer. There are $2100 models that community gardeners can invest in collectively. “The proposed legislation is part of a dangerous trend to eliminate or restrict the right of farmers to save and exchange seed – all in the name of increasing seed industry profits” explains Hope Shand, Research Director of RAFI. “We weren’t surprised to learn that Monsanto is behind the bill, because the company is already waging a ferocious campaign against seed-saving farmers and it’s actively developing the controversial suicide seeds – or Terminator technology,” said Shand. Terminator is a technique for genetically altering a plant so that the seeds it produces are sterile.

  7. Thank You Thank You for posting this. Vandana Shiva is truly inspirational.

    God Bless

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