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Look Carefully At Those Seeds

March 6, 2013

“Lately, I’ve needed a new ethical code to guide my seed shopping. I want seed that was raised in conditions like my own — in a low-input system — and if possible, in a geographically similar environment. That way, I’m contributing less to the pollution caused by conventional seed growing, and I am likely to have better growing success.”

Read more from this New York Times Op-Ed piece by Margaret Roach.

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NY Times: Alexis Anne Mackenzie

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