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Sumangla.K.H
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Regarding organic ,old seeds, and your helping hands towards Indian backward agricultural people.
Comment #75 on : Tue January 31, 2012, 00:14:06
We are trying to help our Indian poor farmers through our NGO SAMANVAYA by providing required details and support from our end.Hence we would like to keep healthy relationship with all the organisation which is truly working based on farmers uplifment,Environment,concentrating on health, Physicall,Economical etc., Over all development of our farmers community.
Terry, Proud UK Expat, Washington State
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Seed Hunter
Comment #74 on : Mon October 31, 2011, 01:55:05
I just watched the documentary on the Smithsonian Channel. I'm so impressed by you and the entire team. However exciting it looks, it must be terrific yet rewarding work. Scary the countries,land mines, etc. that places you wonderful people in harms way for the benefit of our future and mankind in general. Thank you for the work you do...you make a significant difference. I was impressed.
Sally Ingleton
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Producer
Comment #73 on : Mon October 17, 2011, 07:48:33
Hi Simon
Why not contact your local seed bank in Perth? Or try CSIRO in Perth. They have a large chick pea program and may know about heirloom varieties?. Good luck.
Simon Dempster
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Chickpea availability
Comment #72 on : Mon October 17, 2011, 01:07:46
Hi. Would lov eot get hold of small quants of chickpea seed suitable for growing in central west WA after seeing CHICKPEA flourishing in Tanzania and Kenya. Can you advise where I can get heirloom varieties? Regards
Simon
Jan
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Re: Seed Hunter
Comment #71 on : Sat October 08, 2011, 18:36:55
For a documentary it would have been good to shed some critical light on the owners of the arctic seed vault and their agenda's. It looks to be a kind of internationally endorsed and managed work for the good of humanity. Is this indeed the case if private investors pull the strings?
Emma
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360 Degree Films
Comment #70 on : Tue October 04, 2011, 15:38:52
Thank-you for your comments everybody. You have put forward some very interesting opinions and it's great to keep this discussion alive!
Jeniffer-Eir
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Comment #69 on : Mon October 03, 2011, 15:46:04
Completed watching "Seed Hunter." In utter appreciation and admiration regarding the willingness of the entire SH team/community to undertake such rustic (and especially dangerous) conditions. And thrilled that you found (all) of the heirloom seeds that you did. At the same time...questions. How could mono-crops of even this quality of seed be preferable to the diversity of food forest gardening that integrates a multitude of plant species for many different interrelated purposes? And how I cringe at the continued mention of genetic tampering of seed(s). Why not just begin to plant a few of all of these various seeds? Perhaps even allow permaculture experts to do this in lieu of laboratory environments? I understand why some seed ought to be saved via such seed banks. However, we need to be planting these as well...now! I truly do not understand the necessity of splicing to modern plant seeds, etc. This requires time and economic resources we do not have? With all of the elements of food forest gardening at our behest, this laboratory approach seems superfluous to me. I realize that many would be resistant to this idea - there has been much money to be made in such sectors. But swiftly declining energy resources, ever-increasing weather-related events (i.e. crop failures), drought in so many parts of the world (including the U.S. where I live) - I will opine again that we do not have the time to maintain the status quo. Further, we humans are going to have to accept that we cannot continue to live as we have - and I am referring primarily to those of us in the wealthier countries. More resistance...I know. I have already observed/encountered much of the last. We prioritize virtually everything in life more than the basic necessities that we need - particularly clean air, water, and healthy food-growing soil. Why should we just sit back and wait for the worst of disastrous events to occur? We humans have will. Why not use it (now) to make changes that will save as many of us and other species as possible? I cannot understand this idea of utter helplessness simply because we are outright unwilling to give up our extravagant and wasteful ways - and instead focus on the aspects of life that involve our very survival. It is beyond time that we begin "Greening the Desert(s)" instead of creating even more of them.

Sincerely,
Jeniffer-Eir

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzTHjlueqFI&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLA58B1460A9E15C5A
(Greening the Desert 1 - plus sequel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=MsRJkDHLHuM
(Greening the Desert 2 - plus sequel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWdlDmviV9k&NR=1
(Greening the Desert 3 - plus sequel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbcn06h8w4
(Martin Crawford)
Jeniffer-Eir
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Comment #68 on : Sun October 02, 2011, 15:56:53
This endeavor is significant - no doubt. Yet, are we not missing much here? Aside from the (human) will to simply choose to change our existing ways (and if we had this, we could start tomorrow)...what of concurrently working to make our food-growing conditions more hospitable? What of Geoff Lawton and his "Greening the Desert" in Jordan? What of the work of Martin Crawford? I am glad so many of us are now striving to acquire, grow, collect, and share "heirloom" seeds. And, I realize...

that some of the seeds mentioned in this segment/film are far older than many other heirlooms. But yet again - what of the work of Sepp Holzer in Austria? The couple who are doing permaculture farming in Australia? I think that these efforts are at LEAST as significant as searching for specific seeds. After all, lack of seed diversity is yet another problem associated with our food-growing "system." Thus, I think that diversity is even more important than any single variety of seed...

...regardless of how stalwart the characteristics are of certain seed varieties. One does not need scientific knowledge/degrees in order to understand the basics of all of this - nor to put all of this into practice. Food-growing, seed-saving, permaculture approaches that facilitate the growing of food - even in challenging conditions - can be done by anyone/by all. Science does not have "the" solution for everything. Further, scientific approaches to/in life have...

...been as pronouncedly disastrous to all species and the "environment" as much as they have been beneficial.
Emma Barnett
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360 Degree Films
Comment #67 on : Mon September 19, 2011, 12:50:12
Hi Teresa,

Thank-you for your comment. You can join our Seed Hunter community via Facebook, where Ken is an active member.

Here is the address: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seed-Hunter/110081302364982

Kind Regards,

Emma
Teresa Carvalho
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Very good movie about seeds and climate change
Comment #66 on : Sat July 23, 2011, 05:15:04
I like very much the film and the learning we get watching Dr. Ken and all scientists. Is there any chance to have more informations about other ancient seeds and where they are found? Gratitud.
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