It’s quite simple – without seeds we do not have food. And nine out of every ten bites taken around the world today begins with the planting of a seed.
Preserving the variety of genetic material in crops protects us from plant disease.
In an age of monoculture, diversity makes our food system less vulnerable. Pandemics can happen to plants, too.
In this episode of Growing Concerns, we see how Iris Vaisman of Lacombe is part of a global seed network that may one day save us from catastrophic famine.
Up Next in Season 1
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Green Robot
COVID has stopped international travel cold. Now, Canadian farmers can no longer rely on immigrant labor to work their fields. What is the answer?
Meet Dot: a fully automated seeder and harvester. Dot starts her engine, rolls out to the field on her own, and comes back with the harvest.
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There's an App for That
Modern farms are vast – far too big for a person to cover in a day. So today’s farmer instead relies on a network of sensors and satellites to keep an eye on their crops. But sometimes that can mean too much data to make sense of.
Decisive Farming of Beiseker specializes in making all that digita... -
Go Vertical
As international food supply chains are strained to the limit, small local farms are increasingly important.
Nick Hsu runs a small basil farm where he uses no pesticides and almost no fertilizer. It’s a unique vertical aquaponics system that grows wonderful organic produce for Calgary restaurants...
