seed banks

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30 crops make up the world's diet. Wheat, corn and rice alone account for more than half of the world's food consumption. What if a natural disaster wipes out the majority of wheat and other important crops?

A seedbank stores seeds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed) as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere are destroyed. It is a type of gene bank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_bank). The seeds stored may be food crops (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_crop), or those of rare species to protect biodiversity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity). The reasons for storing seeds may be varied. In the case of food crops, many useful plants that were developed over centuries are now no longer used for commercial agricultural production and are becoming rare. Storing seeds also guards against catastrophic events like natural disasters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disaster), outbreaks of disease, or war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War).

but it is not all drama.. seed banks are also a great way to share seeds with friends..

these are also called seed exchanges..

here is a link to a interesting site Seed Savers Exchange (http://www.seedsavers.org/)


http://youtu.be/M6w0afL8sLU

http://youtu.be/dKG7kFbgh_o