Recently, a friend was visiting and looked in my freezer for beverage ice. To my friend’s surprise, he noticed that more than half of my freezer space was full of vegetable seeds leaving very little room for frozen foods. “Nate, what’s with all these frozen seeds?” he asked. “That’s my seed bank” I explained. The bank consists of seeds I have been collecting from my own garden or through my work with traditional farmers over the last 25 years!

To me, seed saving is not only a practical way to select and grow plants that thrive in our region; it is also a skill worth knowing in the unpredictable world we live in. As an agricultural anthropologist, I see how saving seeds connects us to an ancient lineage of self-sufficient gardeners and farmers who have protected crop heritage for generatio

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