@ewahlwriting I ask largely because the future of seed is local, where the great majority of productive cultivars on offer (carried by, say, Johnnys) lack the inherent capacity to settle in. We may be able to plug you into the right seed network, or help you create one.
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Where efforts are indeed moving away from reliance on hybrids and toward open-pollinated seed, the consequences are proving revelatory. We are finding, for example, that the open-pollinated phenomenon naturally lends itself to stewardship activities that exist, literally, beyond the ecological reach of Big Money – as befits approaches that are small-scale, highly-localized, and inextricably related to the long term care of the larger ecologies in which they are embedded. The implications are startling. If biological realpolitik is now clearly placing the mantle of authentic cultural stewardship squarely beyond the centralizing grasp of the ancien regime, who, in your neighborhood, will now assume it? Which crop varieties hold the most promise for you and your local landscape? Where are they to be found? What, all of a sudden, is to be done?
@nils_gilman Don't get me started. 'The Story', of late, largely dictated by economic interests, where recent insights into the fundamental, organismic (i.e. archetypal) structure of life, reveal vigor as dependent upon much more than the evolutionary cul-de-sac of synthetic hybridization.
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