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3/ Andrew and Sarah went on to found @AdaptiveSeeds ('Bringing Biodiversity Back') one of our country's foremost, holistic plant-breeding companies. A core focus? Potent, productive, well-stewarded, public-domain seed, with the intrinsic, co-evolutionary capacity to localize.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 12 Jan 2022

@GMWatch Bizarre, the almost universal failure to notice, but hybrid varieties of food crops (the majority of for-profit cultivars) are engineered _by_design_ to lack the inherent capacity to co-evolve. Simply put, at a fundamental genomic level, such seed cannot adapt to climate chaos.

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Quoted byLong fidelity to the immediate, animating substrate of resilience and adaptation passes through seed into culture and consciousness. At its best, public-domain plant breeding makes integrity civilizational. Tuesday, our team circles up to feast with longtime allies @AdaptiveSeedsQuoted byRT @AgrarianSharing: @IrelandSeedSov @LivTorc Liv, you're lighting up Oregon! Peacevine? One of ours, bred by Dr. Alan Kapuler of Peace Seeds. Sweet Meat? A PNW heirloom, since improved by local n' loved Carol Deppe. Andrew & Sarah (likely the transatlantic seed bridge) locals too. Global peacemaking going OP local, innit?Quoted by@IrelandSeedSov @LivTorc Liv, you're lighting up Oregon! Peacevine? One of ours, bred by Dr. Alan Kapuler of Peace Seeds. Sweet Meat? A PNW heirloom, since improved by local n' loved Carol Deppe. Andrew & Sarah (likely the transatlantic seed bridge) locals too. Global peacemaking going OP local, innit?