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PERMACULTURE WORKSHOP

Seed Protectors

facilitators: Alan Cacao & Jean Pullen

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More than 10,000 years ago we start to domesticate seeds.

Conection for all human existence.

Fact & Image:

National Geographic

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Fact & Image:

National Geographic

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93% of all seeds have been lost in the last 80 years

Loss of Seed Diversity Coincides with the Consolidation of Seed Companies… what companies???

Source: Dr. Joseph Mercola

60,000 to 100,000 plant species are in danger of extinction

Facts . . .

Say facts..

More information:

Once considered to be the property of all, like water or even air, seeds have become largely privatized, such that only a handful of companies now control the global food supply.

Agriculture has been around for 10,000 years, but the privatization of seeds has only occurred very recently. In that short time, seed diversity has been decimated, farmers have been put out of business due to rising seed costs…

According to Worldwatch:²

"…by the early 1900s, the U.S. and Canadian governments began promoting the development of large export-oriented agriculture industries based on only a few crops and livestock species.

To maximize uniformity and yields, seed breeding moved off the farm and into centralized public research centers, such as U.S. land grant universities. Variety development became commodity-oriented.

Scientific advances in the 1970s and '80s heralded a new era in agriculture. To boost flat sales, Monsanto and other agrichemical companies ventured into genetic engineering and transformed themselves into the biotechnology industry.

They bought out traditional seed companies and engineered their herbicide-resistant genes into the newly acquired seed lines." It's been all downhill from there…

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What kind of seeds do we have?

Local/Native endemic

Criolla or Adapted Seed

Genetically Modified

Organism (GMO) Seeds.

Local or Native Seeds. These seeds originate in the land or region where they are currently cultivated. Ten thousand years ago, humans started to domesticate plants and adapt to specific local conditions; their seeds adapted with them.
Criolla or Adapted Seeds. These seeds originally come from other regions of the world but have adapted to the climate and soil where they are now grown. With the invasion of colonization, and specifically the Spanish here in Latin America, many seeds have been carried into the Americas—and all across the world.
Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) Seeds. These seeds are bred not in a garden, but in a laboratory, using modern biotechnology techniques like gene splicing. Scientists modify a seed’s DNA to ensure the resulting plant produces desired characteristics. Many GMO seeds are sterile, meaning they cannot produce seeds for the next harvest.

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What are the benefits of Native & Criollas Seeds?

Economic benefit – farmers don’t need to purchase seeds each year

Environmental – Conserve the biodiversity, respect of interdependence between animals and plants

Cultural – Conserve the identity of culture & tribes

Social – Ensuring survival through healthy food for generations

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What are the disadvantages of GMO?

Economic benefit – farmers need to purchase seeds each year

Environmental – Loss of biodiversity, Increased pests, desertification of soil

Cultural – Loss of security and food sustainability of agriculture/farmers/locals

Social – Public health is in crisis and increased sickness of humans

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History..�

Source: Dr. Joseph Mercola

PAST

NOW

Nature Provided seeds

Farmers rarely ever purchased seeds

Saving seeds can be illegal due to patents

Farmers need to purchase seeds

� Past. Now.

--Seeds have traditionally been saved and shared between farmers from one harvest season to the next. Farmers rarely ever had to buy new seed. Nature, when left alone, provides you with the means to propagate the next harvest in a never-ending cycle.

---Now, however, farmers relying on patented seeds must buy them each year from pesticide companies like Monsanto. Saving such seeds is illegal because it is considered to be patent infringement.

---Many farmers depend on Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) (and patented) seeds. More than 90 percent of US soybeans and 80 percent of corn acreage is planted with Monsanto's patented GM seeds.

--Patenting of life forms was never approved by Congress or the American public. But as far the GMO industry is concerned,

---According to the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), as of August 2013 Monsanto owned 1,676 seed, plant, and other similar patents.⁶ This was the plan all along.

Source directly from Dr. Joseph Mercola

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Simple ways to propagate seeds

Directly from fruit seeds, roots and flowers

Cutting from part of the plant

Grafting trees

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Simple ways to preserve seeds

Keep planting seed

Share and exchange seeds with community

Good sealed container with rice or silica (for humidity protection)

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what groups right now are caring for the seeds…

…… and many individual and groups

BUT YOU CAN TOO…

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Other facts about Food -

Plants represent more than 80% of the human diet and nutrition, 2050 our population will increase to 9B humans and we will need to increase food production by 60%

250,000 species of higher plants have been described and identified, of which 30,000 species are edible.

Of these, 30 species of plants are the crops that feed the world, while only five cereals (rice, wheat, corn, millet and sorghum) provide 60% of the caloric intake of the world population.

Fact from:

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Protecting our seeds..

Create a seed banks, in a safe dry place..

Exchange or share seeds with your neighbors.

Plant seeds again.

PLANT SEEDS. Most safe way to keep seeds & empower community.

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Year 1 - soil building making lasagna of materials

logs from forest, mycelium, organic materials (leaves, branches, coconut husks, banana trunks, collecting soil from the forest)

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Year 2 - soil building

growth of perennials, annuals, seasonals, medicinals and planted trees

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Regenerate Your Reality

Plant. Grow. Expand.

Create educational videos & resources in Spanish and English
Host Retreats/ transformational experiences

Host free workshops for local community.
Hands on learning
How to use plants in healthy cooking

Connect through plant medicine music & fun.

Lead by example. Creating food forest in our backyard and community.
Empower our neighborhood to exchange seeds, plants, and work together.

Action

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World Wide

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Our goal is access of knowledge for all. A community of sharing resources. To work with the nature. To regenerate seeds in ourselves, this earth, and others.

Partner with Agroforestry Models and education centers and help scale education platform through leveraging resources locally.

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