Seeds commonplace again
At the end of the gardening season, the flowers, legumes and fruit-bearing vegetables use their last energy to produce seeds. Nature ripens these seeds for the next season. The farmers choose the best and strongest fruits from which the seed is extracted for the next garden season. This is how the farmers cultivated for years. So every farmer had his own specific seeds. But this has changed.
After the Second World War, growing vegetables became industrialized. As a result, multinationals (such as Monsanto and Corteve Agriscience) eventually gained monopoly (power) over most of the seeds. By genetically manipulating the seed (F1 hybrid) it is no longer possible to extract seed from the fruit. These seeds are patented, with the result that farmers can no longer use the seed of these crops the following year. The farmers have to buy new seeds every year from these multinationals. Nature intended it so that when a plant grows, its seed can be used again and that does not include patents and / or DNA manipulation. Changing the DNA of crops is irresponsible and can cause major damage that may be irreversible.
“If you control seed, you control life on earth”
Multinationals also determine what we eat (which varieties can be grown), which means that vegetable varieties are disappearing and that is a bad thing.
Gaia Seeds wants to contribute to the distribution of open-pollinated seeds. We (hopefully with you) reclaim the seeds so that they become commonplace again for ourselves and future generations. For greater reach, we keep seed prices low because we value purpose over profit. This site will regularly post information about great initiatives in the field of natural gardening and of course we will put the Organic Farmers in The Picture. You help by not buying seeds that are manipulated or patented, this will create independence and freedom.