Seeds Before Science: How Observation Built Agriculture Before I ever read a word about plant biology, I learned something true at a dinner table. Every summer, during harvest, a plate of sliced tomatoes appeared at dinner. Just that. Fresh, ripe, still warm from the sun. No one talked about lycopene or soil pH or heirloom genetics. They just sliced them and set them down. And everyone ate. What I understand now, after years of growing my own, is that what was being passed around that table was the end result of an unbroken relationship — between a family, a piece of land, and a seed that had been selected, saved, and carried forward for generations by people who knew exactly what they were doing, without having a word for what they knew. That's what seed saving means to me. Sovereignty. Nutrient density. Stewardship. Love — for the people who will...
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