Posted on 09/17/2016 7:01:37 AM PDT by tired&retired
One of the biggest reasons there are so few non-hybrid seeds anymore is that there were too many farmers who wanted more than just a poverty level standard of living.
whats the best way to store seeds, in your opinion?
Well. The world will have to use the seeds to plant their
gardens. Everybody do their part.
“whats the best way to store seeds, in your opinion?”
Cleaned good quality seeds and then nitrogen flush them and hold at low temperature.
Some seeds will only germinate the next season. There’s lots of excellent info on the net about seed shelf life and germination rates.
“One of the biggest reasons there are so few non-hybrid seeds anymore is that there were too many farmers who wanted more than just a poverty level standard of living.”
It was about survival... If you have ever weeded a soybean field, or lost a crop to weeds... you welcome Roundup Ready soybeans.
Same with the quality of hybrids... disease resistance is a real plus..
“Well given the revolutions of history...it will be more like people using guns to take the food and the means of production back from the crooks....it just takes just the right amount of time and motivation!”
99 out of 100 people could walk through my pasture and not know what plants are edible and what plants will kill them.
I grew up eating from the wild... we used to joke that you knew you were poor when the people getting government surplus food would pity us and bring it and share with us...
We used to joke about the cans of government kangaroo meet. Not sure what it was, but it looked like spam!
But I ate more than my share of venison, pheasant, goose, duck, turkey, rabbit, squirrel, fish...... even muskrat, groundhog, possum and raccoon.
The worst part of eating wild game was spitting out the bullets!
It’s amazing what you can catch with corn on the cob on the prongs of a conibear trap when the ducks and geese are passing through.
Yes, I’ve weeded soybean fields, some on hands and knees to rid them of thistles.
The rows still seem endless today, probably 40 years later.
“nitrogen flush them”
Not sure what that is. My mom used to keep them in envelopes in a drawer. Recently I found some of her lufa seeds and planted them. They grew great. My dad said she took those from a friend over 10 years prior.
You’re definitely one up on me on knowing how to survive off the land.
Now, after a quarter million hogs, I just buy my pork chops at the store like most everyone else.
May it always be so.
“whats the best way to store seeds, in your opinion?”
Some people are betting on Norway:
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2016/5/seeds-on-ice/1
A quote: “A Study that compared named varieties grown in the United in the 1800s with those stored in genebanks in the early 1980s found that a huge number had gone extinct. For instance, more than 2300 out of 2600 pear varieties documented in the 1800s have been lost.” Unfortunately many other historic varieties of useful plants are gone.
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