[permaculture] changes at seed saver's exchange
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lflj at intrex.net
Sun Jan 20 02:38:57 EST 2008
Johnathan Yelenick wrote:
> I am forwarding this from the Bioregional listserve.
> This letter is hauntingly germane to recent discourse on this list.
> Like, "politics has nothing to do with permaculture institutions and
> activities". I beg to differ.
>
> Anyway, anyone interested in the maintenance of Seed Saver's Exchange
> should closely be paying attention to this.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Johnathan Yelenick
>
>
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>
> Many of you may be familiar with the work, buy garden seeds from or even
> be members of Seed Saver's Exchange in Decorah Iowa. You may have heard
> Kent Whealy give one of his inspiring talks. Here is a letter that Kent
> sent out after he was fired. It sounds pretty apalling. It sounds like
> this massive and amazing seed bank may have fallen into the wrong
> hands.....one of the many perils of centralization. The link to the
> letter is below. Dan'l B
>
> http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/1016/1377/217012.pdf
> <http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/1016/1377/217012.pdf>
C'est impossible!
There's an infestation of power grabs all over the USA.
If they can do it they will do it or try. They are like reptiles without heads
running on autonomous nerve energy.
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