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To: sageyrain who wrote (6762)	12/16/2007 5:17:18 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24225

heirloom seeds google.com The Seed Savers Handbook Michel & Jude Fanton 1993 Excellent reference especially for tropical gardeners who 'miss out' in many conventional gardening books. Learn to protect our global food heritage - and eat it too! Detailed descriptions of seed collecting, propagation & kitchen uses of more than 100 vegetables, herbs and edible flowers.176pp greenharvest.com.au Survival Garden Seeds #10 Can Seed Varieties Included in Each Can: 1 Sweet Garden Corn -- Golden Bantam 5 oz. 1 Pole Beans -- Blue Lake 5 oz. 1 Sweet Garden Peas -- Little Marvel 10 oz. 1 Carrot -- Scarlet Nantes 6 g. 1 Onions -- Utah Sweet Spanish 10 g. 1 Cabbage -- Golden Acre 10 g. 1 Swiss Chard -- Lucullus 8 g. 1 Beet -- Detroit Dark Red 8 g. 1 Winter Squash -- Waltham Butternut 6 g. 1 Tomato -- Ace 55 VF 3 g. 1 Zucchini Squash -- Black Beauty 6 g. 1 Lettuce -- Barcarolle Romaine 4 g. 1 Pepper -- Yolo Wonder 5 g. 1 Radish -- Champion 10 g. 1 Spinach -- Bloomsdale Long Standing 10 g. 1 Cucumber -- Marketmore 76- 8 g. Totals: 659 grams of Open Pollinated Non-Hybrid Vegetable Seed *Non-Hybrid seeds can be collected from the crop after harvest and used the next season for replanting. Many store bought seed are "hydrid" varieties and will not produce their own seeds. nitro-pak.com and sprouting seeds don't need to start in jars; they can be planted... captaindaves.com

To: sageyrain who wrote (6762)	12/20/2007 11:11:06 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24225

(<: (Not Al) Franken-broccoli? The GM seed giants lumber into the veggie patch Posted by Tom Philpott at 12:18 PM on 19 Dec 2007 In 2005, Monsanto bought Seminis, the world's largest vegetable-seed company. At the time, Monsanto -- which enjoys a dominant position in the global market for GM soy, corn, and cotton traits -- claimed it had no imminent plans to subject veggies to genetic modification. Now I learn from the excellent new blog SeedStory, by Matthew Dillon of the Organic Seed Alliance, that Monsanto is working on RoundUp Ready lettuce. And the few other transnational giants that dominate the global GM seed industry are also upping their position in vegetables. Bayer-Crop Science, Dillon reports, has snapped up Paragon, the world's biggest lettuce-seed firm. Dillon reports that he hears from industry reps that Bayer isn't planning on investing in transgenic vegetable crops. Funny -- that's just what Monsanto was saying a couple of years ago. Incidentally, anyone interested in this topic should read Dillon's "A Brief History of the Seed Industry." gristmill.grist.org