Fight Monsanto: Mega Seed Bank Includes 58K Non-GMO Seeds

David Quilty | 18 July, 2012 | Food & Water

Want to fight back against Monsanto and all the genetically-modified foods hitting grocery store shelves? Grow your own food by picking up ~~some~~ enough non-GMO seeds to keep you and your family fed for years to come.

Popular online seed retailer Seeds Now is offering up a promotion which lets you pick up a mega pack of seeds containing over 58,000 GMO-Free, Heirloom/Non-Hybrid seeds of 55 different varieties of fruit, vegetable, and herb plants for just $120. I don’t know about you, but I spend at least that at the grocery store every week, so buying all those seeds at that price could save me a ton of money on my food bill. Of course, I would have to grow the stuff myself – but that’s half the fun, right? And it comes with the added bonus of you knowing where your food came from, rather than buying it weeks removed from the vine of a faceless, nameless farmer somewhere 2,000 miles away. Local and non-GMO? Count me in.

Monsanto’s GMO seeds have been Frankensteined so that they only last one growing season, meaning farmers using the company’s seeds have to re-buy seeds every year. In addition, Monsanto has written “seed laws” which makes collecting, cleaning, or storing their genetically-modified seeds against the law. That doesn’t seem fair to me and I am sure it doesn’t seem fair to the farmers. The plants grown from seeds provided by the likes of Seeds Now can be harvested and used again year after year. That’s more like it – and how nature intended it to be.

We’re not being sponsored by Seeds Now and they didn’t reach out to us to let us know about this promo. But because we are focusing on food issues this month, we did want to pass it along to anyone interested in growing and eating their own locally-produced, non-GMO, organic fruits and vegetables. Whether you are a survivalist waiting for the end times, a beginning farmer, or someone already growing most of their own food, you may want to check out this offer.

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1349783876 Lucy Owsley-Goodman

The seed bank has a stupid mix of seeds. Asparagus?better to order crowns, otherwise you wait 5 to 7 years before you cit your first spears. With crownsd you wait 2 years to cut the forst spears and another 3 before you can cut all you want. 240 to 300 bean seeds? I guess one won’t be eating any dried beans that first year (much less green beans unless you want to eat your seed stock for the following year.) Artichokes? I hope you live in the south or California

Not to mention, if you get a couple of catalogs you can get the same variety of seeds for about 1/3rd what these folks charge.

And if you are buying the emergency seed bank I sincerely hope you know about how to save seed which includes knowing how to isolate varieties so they do not cross, when and how to harvest, how to clean the seeds and how to store. if you are not going to save the seed there is no reason for this.

it would be far better for people to know that hybrid seeds are NOT GMO’s and that growing an Organic garden for the purpose of both food and seed saving takes several seasons to learn how to do this well and you cannot get a great garden out of a big can. het books and order from places the have signed the safe seed pledge. get things you like/love to eat and forget the rest. learn about local farms who are sustainable and GMO free who cater to the locavores and patronize them. volunteer on a local prodce farm and learn how you really should be growing and saving seeds.
http://twitter.com/TracieKnits Tracie Knits

It is better to buy seeds suited for your climate and tastes. It would cost far less money. I like High Mowing Seeds for my area, which is New England. a quick search on the internet and you can find non-gmo, non hybrid seeds specially developed for your area too.