subject: In Good Company With Heirloom Seeds [print this page] What goes into the ground eventually goes into your mouth. That may sound blunt and disagreeable, but its the truth. All food starts with sunlight, which is stored as energy and nutrition in the plants that are harvested for food. Heirloom seeds are pure sources of this natural nutrition, and heirloom seed companies should be an important resource to anybody planning a garden.
You probably spend time around a friend or two who, in late winter or early spring, avidly pores over catalogs from heirloom seed companies. Well, guess what? Hes going to have a lot of company as the economy continues to decline. Preppers in particular know that its a good idea to find out where to get free seed catalogs and start working on food independence.
Check out your local home and gardening stores; some of them will probably have bins full of free seed catalogs. Some major big box stores have garden sections where free catalogs from heirloom seed companies will be available. Many free seed catalogs can be downloaded from the Web, or ordered via e-mail.
Heirloom seed companies offering bulk seeds will probably send a free seed catalog on request. What are heirlooms? Simply put, heirloom bulk seeds are varieties that have been preserved in their purity for many years sometimes for centuries. They are strains that come from a time before herbicides and pesticides, before Big Agriculture turned food from a delicious source of sustenance into a profitable corporate commodity. They yield produce that retains the full nutritional potency we need, and the taste at least some of us can dimly remember from our childhood.
Furthermore, non-hybrid, non-GMO organic bulk seeds can be recovered and re-planted. The chief advantage here is the ability to preserve a pure strain and to enhance the self-sufficiency of the farmer and consumer.
Once again, the chief advantage of organic, non-GMO bulk seeds is difficult to verify scientifically: The food they produce actually tastes like food.
With times growing leaner and household grocery bills getting heavier, people are increasingly looking to grow more of their own food. Now is the time to get started on a garden, if only to supplement the household food supply and take some of the load off the weekly grocers bill. Heirloom seed companies are a resource just waiting to be tapped.
