Supermarket Food vs the Seed You Know

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If you have ever tasted home grown food grow from your own seeds supermarket vegetable lack taste (read they are nutrition-poor). The solution is to grow your own food with tasty varieties you or friends have bred or conserved from local seeds. Peasants very much do just that. 

Most vegetables on the global market are grown with corporate seeds. Seeds that have been dumbed-down by corporate plant breeders that are told exactly what the supermarkets need, like extra sweetness, uniformity at seedling emergence, flowering and bearing time, and all importantly to suit industrial farming, transport and distribution systems that distribute now 75% of Australia's fresh food.

Local maize varieties in Ecuador 

You can see that we believe it all starts with the seed and we are not the only ones. Monsanto, Bayer, Dupont and Syngenta believe that too for they are the world's largest seed companies.

Saving cucumber seeds from very large mature cucumbers

Even if you have a tiny garden, grow from seed you know such as from an other gardeners who save their seeds every year. If you need a seed start check with one of the hundred Local Seed Networks that are established in Australia on www.seedsavers.net