
Seed: The Untold Story
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(calm and earthly strings music)
(seeds shake and rattle)
(soft and chill strings music)
When I first came here,
we are a hippy, back to
nature, self-sufficient thing.
We were watching too
many David Crockett,
Daniel Boone movies
and reading too much Thoreau.
(man sings song in
foreign language)
We were trying to seek
a different vision.
The first time I saw bean
collections and so on,
it was like woo, a
jewelry store, lit up,
and I've always just been
dazzled by diversity.
I don't like people that
are all straight, all gay,
all communist, all Christian,
let them all be there
and absolutely the
different kinds of seeds.
My great grandfather
was a farmer.
Looking through our
family photo album,
I just wish that I could like
somehow step into that photo,
say "Hi great grandma.
It's me, Billy,
"can I have some of these?"
because I know for a fact
the things are now extinct.
They're my family,
and they're gone.
I have this horrible
vision someday
that the creator would look down
and he'd come look
around and say,
"Well, where is this,
well where did that go?
"I created this,
where did it go?
"How come it's not here?"
I see myself as Noah, not God.
Noah didn't get to decide
whether the crocodiles
came on the Ark or not,
or the black flies.
His job was to load 'em on,
ok, that's my job.
I have thousands of varieties
that I am maintaining,
People of the future, plant
breeders, and gardeners,
they will decide.
What the heck did
Will save that for?
I don't get to
make that decision.
My job is to keep
these all on the Ark,
keep them alive for
40 days and 40 nights
until the flood's over.
I may discover 10 years from now
that that seed will
be in huge demand
because it has in its genes
some resistance to some disease
which is only now evolving.
In many many cases,
what I've got is not
available anywhere else.
She's my sweetheart.
The year that I fail
to grow a variety
is the year it is lost to me.
And in some cases perhaps
lost to the planet,
some of these things are right
on the edge of extinction.
(calm and relaxing
strings music)
We have this collection
of several hundred
potatoes that are
purple or black skinned
and with yellow flesh,
some with a purple skin
hot pink flecks in them.
We have in the collection
a variety of lumpers.
Most of the Irish in the 1830s
and 40s were growing lumpers,
big yielder,
and none of those varieties
had any resistance
to late blight.
This is the potato that
killed a million Irishmen.
Because of the fact that
they were the one or two
were totally vulnerable.
This is the variety
that explains why O
Genetic diversity is the hedge
between us and global famine.
The diversity in our seed
stocks is as endangered
We have the largest
seed shortage
in history.
(moves into calm ambient music)
It's this beautiful dance
between the plant
and the humans,
that find each other
and make a culture possible.
In Mesoamerica over
10,000 years ago,
corn found humans,
Corn really is this
beautiful co-creation
between plants and humans.
The domestication of corn
was centered in the
Oaxacan Valley of Mexico.
The incredible evolutionary
leaps that we took with corn
is a miracle.
It ignited this
sacred connection that
entire spine of the Americas.
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