Sentence examples for local seeds from inspiring English sources

But local seeds are vulnerable to increasingly erratic weather conditions.

For their part, the seed companies and catalogs, which were then small and regional, collected local seeds from the plants that performed best from year to year.

"We provide peasants with local seeds," one of their leaders Rosnel Jean Baptiste explained.

The massive land grabs taking place in Africa, the displacement of local seeds with GMOs, and the violent dislocation of peasant communities to make way for industrial plantations in the Global South are not far removed from the urban realities of Detroit.

They may prefer local seeds and be able to discriminate between seed species based on their size [12], [32] [34].

Open pollinated local seeds were used, seed selection, storage and exchanges between different villages was encouraged.

They are testing grounds for plant vegetative material and some sites are using the food forests as local seed banks to breed locally acclimated plants that produce seed for home gardens or small farms.

She and her mum collected as much local seed as they could find (locally sourced seed is always best for "new" meadows) and bought extra BCT-approved native seeds, and scattered them over the slope.

As restoration targets grow and if the emphasis on local seed sources remains a priority, localized negative impacts through unsustainable practices may occur.

Also seek out a local seed swap.

A handful of American beech seedlings, grown from local seed by the Greenbelt Native Plant Center, on Staten Island, were only a foot tall.