Hear about how Florentina started her Flora Seeds , all thanks to seeing the need for a community seed library in her settlement of Yellow Springs , Ohio . Her interest group in seed education and in aid people spare , share and grow seeded player grew from there . As more masses started becoming more aware of the exposure of our global food organization , they also started paying attention to where their food come from , which invariably leads back to seeds , seed keeping and seed sovereignty . Florentina explore the multiple pathways that bring mass into hold an interest in seeded player , ranging from food protection to political underground and ethnical stake .
instruct how the Yellow Springs Community Seed Library works and how citizenry can “ check out ” and donate seeds . Florentina explains how she insure in with ejaculate program library users to be sure they are getting along with their seeds and to meliorate the organisation for everyone . She tells us , too , about some of her favourite seed that have been contribute to the germ library . ( Have you ever heard of elephant dill ? )
With sights set on suffer an even expectant encroachment than what a seed library offers , Florentina is also act upon with ejaculate common — communal resource of seed collection , source keepers and seed shielder on a regional story . She blab out about farmers , gardeners and community people who are building these networks to exchange seeds , share skill and cover specific seeds ’ stories . Florentina also discusses how university and government activity interests are bear upon the spirit behind seed commons and why it ’s significant to have both regionally based community ejaculate commons and university / government programs but not necessarily the two conflate . She also makes the causa for when and why you might want to work with folk in your area to start your own seed common .
TheAppalachian Seed Growers Collective , co - mastermind by Utopia Seeds ’ Chris Smith , is similar but different than a ejaculate commonalty . It follows a fortune of the same precept but is a collective for come growers and farmers growing ejaculate to democratically make for together . They also give the chance for folks to bribe surplus come as a means of support more ethically and communally produced seminal fluid .
Listen to the end to pick up about Eden ’s Harvest urban farm in Dayton , Ohio , which is a certified native wildlife home ground and kernel for growing food and educate neighbor and local students about nutrient and farming .
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