Seed Saver
The U.S. government maintains a large stockpile of seeds, to be used if disease threatens the nation’s food supply. But informal networks of farmers are also saving seeds to preserve exotic crop varieties that the government does not. NPR’s Andrea DeLeon (day-lee-OWN) visits one of the country’s biggest seed savers, in central Maine.
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