Lee Barnes was honored at the 29th annual Carolina Farm Stewardship Association’s Sustainable Agriculture Conference as Activist of the Year. See him receive his award live at the conference and hear his talk about why it’s so important to protect biodiversity by saving our seed heritage for this and future generations.
VIDEO: Saving Seeds with Lee Barnes Part 1 Award & Why Save Seeds
Lee Barnes was honored at the 29th annual Carolina Farm Stewardship Association’s Sustainable Agriculture Conference as Activist of the Year. See him receive his award live at the conference and hear his talk about why it’s so important to protect biodiversity by saving our seed heritage for this and future generations.
Excellent video. Outlines perfectly my own philosophy of the importance seed saving. Will definitely be sharing this. About the comment on the Slavgard seed bank, though…. No one is going to be able to just fly in and take those seeds. Not if my information is true that it is guarded and fitted with blast doors. It would take a full scale military operation to assault that place. Being a government and corporate project supported by the UN I would be astonished if they don't have a Quick Reaction Force always on standby alert. My biggest concern about Slavgaard is WHY are governments, corporations and the UN socking away an exorbitant amount of heirloom seeds each year when they should be going in the ground to solve the world hunger problem. The UN even has their own special committee for this. What genius decided that, in order to solve world hunger, they should push patented GMO, allow laws in places that prevent people from having gardens, restrict seeds in some place and all the while collecting seed from all over the world. The true purposes and motivation of the people operating that place concern me greatly. You are absolutely correct. If the problem is going to be solved we must do it ourselves.