[permaculture] changes at seed saver's exchange

Lawrence F. London, Jr. lflj at intrex.net
Sun Jan 20 21:32:13 EST 2008


Jennifer Nazak wrote:
> This situation appears to be deplorable indeed. That
> said ...
> 
> Remember the PERMACULTURE approach to solving
> problems? Don't waste too much energy talking about
> what's wrong. Instead, "Find the solution in the
> problem."
> 
> Problem: An extremely precious resource is in jeopardy
> because a few humans acted on their baser instincts.
> 
> SOLUTION: Start our own Seed Savers' Exchange! And not
> just in one central place, but EVERYWHERE. Start one
> in your community; your neighborhood; your state; your
> country. Swap seeds and info with other such
> organizations. Build robustness through
> decentralization and redundancy. Yeah, it's a big
> task, but it needs to be done, who else can we rely
> on?
> 
> cheers, and Permaculture Phorever!

The key to it is:

1) active participation, on a local and regional basis, as usual
2) communication - using the web, and US Mail to exchange seeds

 From a previous post:

Next step would be to, of course use the Internet, establish
overlapping regional seedsavers distribution networks comprised of local networks,
seedsheds or seed circles.

I am in the process of having installed an interactive integrated online
information and networking system
using a wiki, a blog and forums. You are welcome to use this resource if you
might find it useful.
I am open to adding extra sysops (admins) to manage their own areas of interest.
Name is PermacultureWiki & it uses
MediaWiki, Wordpress blog and BBPress forums. Very robust, simple and relable
platforms.



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