Seed Saving Would Have Prevented Irish Famine
Featured on Friday’s Channel 49 ABCnews, was a Kansas local who grows and saves rare or heirloom seeds - a Seed Saver. Ron Thuma has been a member of Seed Savers Exchange since 1978, starting with several varieties of vegetables that were raised by his grandmother.
The Seed Savers Exchange maintain about 25,000 varieties of vegetables, and Ron said it’s important to care about the diversity of foods.
If we don’t keep the genetic diversity going, we lose the potential to solve the problems as we develop plant diseases:
The Irish potato famine is the perfect example. That was because Ireland grew only one variety of potato and something developed, a disease which wiped out the crop and about wiped out the people. Growing many different kinds of potatoes there will always be some that survive
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