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Seeds & Stories
Seeds, like stories, can be passed down through the generations. Seed saving and memory banking provide a means to preserve seed lines and the stores that accompany each seed. Seed lines can be traced back to grandparents or other relatives and friends who nurtured the same crops; preserving seed lines connects the present with the past and maintains both biological and cultural diversity.
"Conservation of diversity is, above all, the production of alternatives, of keeping alive alternative forms of production ... The diverse seeds now being pushed to extinction carry within them seeds of other ways of thinking about nature, and other ways of producing for our need." - Vandana Shiva
"It's not very easy to approach people and ask for their story. The seeds are a great medium for people to connect. You start talking about seeds, and then the stories begin to stumble out." - Virginia Nazarea, 2000
Seed and Gardening Stories
Seed Saving
References
Gianaro,Catherine. 2000. "A Legacy Seeded in Southern Tradition." University of Georgia Research Magazine, Spring.
Nazarea, Virginia D. 1998. Cultural Memory and Biodiversity. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Nazarea, Virginia D. 2005. Heirloom Seeds and Their Keeper. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.