Seed Chat: How Are the World’s Seeds Saved? – NEW DATE

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This month’s topic: How Are the World’s Seeds Saved?

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Next, we turn to global seed storage and the industrial world’s seed bank system: CGIAR.

Founded in 1971, CGIAR operates 11 international genebanks safeguarding over 700,000 accessions from more than 3,000 plant species. These collections are held “in trust” as global public goods and form the backbone of international crop conservation.

Each year, roughly 90,000–100,000 seed samples are distributed to researchers, breeders, and farmers under the framework of the International Plant Treaty.

We’ll look at what this system is designed to do — and ask how that compares with how it actually functions in today’s world.

New topics each* month

In this LIVE online Q&A Session…

• Bill McDorman will be discussing key issues relating to growing your own food and saving the seeds yourselves.
• He will be answering your seed questions live!
• Learn how to save and store seeds so that you can create a thriving, resilient garden tailored to YOUR yard
• Ask Bill your most pressing seed questions and get the inspiration and know-how to be a seed saving superhero

(*No class in January)

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Faculty: Bill McDorman was Executive Director and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance (RockyMountainSeeds.org), SeedSave.org and Seed School. Bill has been teaching seed saving for decades and is dedicated to educating communities about the value of seed saving and local seeds as the foundation of local food.