The importance of biodiversity in the garden. Save your seeds and you could save the world!

Awesome quote from his video: Growing your own food increases your standard of living and decreases your cost of living.

I would like to add another quote to that: In a world where food prices are rising, growing your own food is a rebellious act.

I love that.

I used to garden and save my seeds and trade them with other organic gardeners/growers.

I was on a couple email lists where we would post what seeds we were looking for and what we had to trade.

It was mostly heirloom seeds and we would trade hundreds of dollars worth of seeds and sometimes plants for just the cost of postage.

I traded with the guy who runs Baker Creek seeds and also a school on the east coast as well as a few people in other countries.


Your own garden will have its own micro climates and by saving seeds you get something that grows great for you.

Take the Cherokee Trail of Tears Beans for example.
I got some in a trade from a woman in Colorado and the first year they grew good.

Every year I would save the first ones to ripen and the last ones as well and I would save the longest ones.

The first year the longest ones had 6 or 7 seeds in the pods. After growing them year after year I had most of them with 10, sometimes 12 seeds and I had them ripen fast and also have the later ones ( which I planted a month later than the early ones).

So, wonderful beans for a long season.

You can do that with tomatoes and everything else you save seeds from.

Save the best, the biggest, the earliest, the tastiest...

Yep, I always hate doing it, but I do choose the best for seed-saving.

Saving seeds makes your garden acutely adapted to your location.

Yes, if you pick the strongest, most healthy-looking produce from your garden to save seeds, and do this every year, your plants become even more and more productive and healthy because you have chosen the ones that grow best in your environment.

It's amazing how nature works. We really do need to get back to that as a population. I think this should be taught in schools. We live in a time where everyone is relying on evil minions of evil people to provide us food. It's scary as all fuck because as they say, those who control the food control the population.

Welp, they can't do that if we all know how to grow our own food in a way that provides us with even better food as the years go by.

MiGardener has a playlist of how to save various seeds. I have learned so much from watching his videos. He seems so young to have such a clear grasp of how this world works. We need more people like him. He thinks outside the box and sees the actual problem with food production rather than the piddly things people chase, like rather than use pesticides, if you have a diverse set of varieties, you can grow the one that is pest-resistant.

We weren't meant to have only one variety of banana or beet or anything. If we pay attention, we can save the whole world from starvation. If the world leaders don't do it, it is up to us to do it properly. We MUST save our own seeds. It is the best way to provide healthy food for the next generation.

It is imperative that every home gardener understand this. You aren't just doing a hobby. You are saving the world.