There are a number of Seedsaver Groups in North America, but I do not know of any
doing the volunteer work in developing countries, as our folk are doing. They work
closely with the Permaculture movement and many people are involved in both groups.
We are also teaching Permaculture in a lot of developing and damaged countries as a
means of empowering locals to take control of their own situation. It is much more
to the point to give people the skills and means to grow their own food, than to
give ongoing handouts of unfamiliar food. I don't know the Fenton's personally, but
have a number of mutual friends. Locally we have a seed bank in our Permaculture
Group, which specializes in locally acclimatized food seeds. By doing this we get
rare seeds from Seedsavers or others and grow them on for several years, then
distribute them locally. This works well.

Gil

Merla Barberie wrote:

> The Seedsaver's Network <www.seedsavers.net> is just what I was sketchingly
> thinking about.

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