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  1. Hi Catherine,
    Just a brief note. One Million Gardens is a part of our little heirloom seed company, edible gardens. I was a filmmaker working with Anita Roddick (the body shop) and had opportunity to tour with His Holiness, The Dalai Lama in 1994. On one stop, we went to the Botanical gardens, and his holiness was looking into seed saving strategies and technologies, recognizing that culture is not just people, art, music and language. It is also the other life we share the planet with. He was very concerned for the plants of Tibet and their loss. A seed had been planted…

    Nearly 10 years later, my father passed away in 2002 and Anita sent me to India to shoot with Vandana to get some perspectives on my life. As a result, I ended up staying in Asia for over a year, staying at farms and being with Vandana, and started to see for myself what has transpired with the seeds. Upon my return to the US, I could no longer ignore what was an obvious need – to bring awareness to the plight of our natural seeds and the bio-piracy of Monsanto and others who are looking to control the world’s food supply. The seeds are very important, often overlooked, rarely discussed…yet as vital as water and air. We started Edible Gardens as a way to have the backyard gardener be the repository of the planet’s biodiversity instead of giant agribusiness and frozen seed vaults.

    When we get down to the last viable seed of a lost variety – what would that be worth?
    all the wealth of nations…

    Thank you again for your interest and wonderful support. It is so nice connecting with you.

  2. Hey all – thank you for your wonderful support and comments. We are passionate about preserving the vitality of the few remaining natural seeds. As you can guess, it’s been a labor of love. Ty – however we can help, please let us know. There is a phone number on the http://www.ediblegardens.com website under about us. Let me know what it would take to get these into your hands – we only have 17 packs left…

    Also, we did a great video with Vandana Shiva on food and gardening…

    http://www.tinyurl.com/growfood

    Thanks all & Catherine – let’s work together and see what kind of world we can create for our children!

  4. Very interesting, particularly about how they’re modifying seeds to absorb more chemicals. I had been reading about the carbon credits scam, wondering why they would encourage farmers not to till their soil to recieve more carbon credits. Probably because GM seeds and chemical fertilizers would be more productive in that situation than traditional farming. I think the carbon credits will become a global Enron style fraud or the lynchpin of global enslavement, if slavery is calculated as 50% or more taxation. If science is the new religion, carbon the new sin, climate change the new doomsday, Carbon credits ushered in as the new salvation, used like indulgences. They are the perfect backer for fiat currency, money created out of thin air backed by thin air. A bubble in the making that can grow as big as the lie that creates it, sucking up the wealth of the planet.

  5. I got to the site using as you suggested in the google search. This is fabulous.. I’m going to spread this around.

    I saw a clip once how manure was collected in India, placed in a water vat, from which the methane was captured in an overhead funnel and piped into houses for cooking, preserving the bulk of the manure to be put back into the soil. It was very low tech, but very effective.

    I’ve been successful growing spinach by my back door. I mow it in the fall and it reseeds itself. I use the grass clippings from my lawn as mulch to keep the weeds under control. I use scissors to harvest it. It is only a few steps more to the garden as it is to the refrigerator.. very satisfying. Spinach is a simple thing to grow. Plant a few red onions and some tomatoes and you have a salad. If you are a first-time gardener, start small and add items as you go. Lettuce and cabbage can be grown in your flower beds between flowers and shrubs.

  6. why doesn’t someone lock up these monsanto people and throw away the key? i heard they are making room in guantanamo.

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