【经典网站】SeedSavers:拯救种子交易平台

SeedSavers:拯救种子交易平台是一个非营利性的保存和共享世界上珍稀物种的种子，该组织成立于1975年，目前已经收集和分发数以千计的庭园珍贵的种子样品。

Seed Savers Exchange is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds. Since 1975, our members have been passing on our garden heritage by collecting and distributing thousands of samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners.

Seed Savers Exchange offers an alternative model to big agriculture through our work, encouraging participatory preservation among our members, and by signing the safe seed pledge. Seed Savers Exchange knows that the future of our planet depends on a genetically diverse food supply and carries out our important work by:

1、Maintaining thousands of varieties of different plant types—from amaranth to watermelon—in one of the largest seed banks of its kind in North America.

2、Regenerating seed in isolation gardens and storing them in ideal conditions.

3、Documenting valuable cultural information on varieties and their histories.

4、Distributing heirloom varieties to members and the public through the Seed Savers Exchange Yearbook and the Seed Savers Exchange Catalog

5、Storing varieties in back-up locations at the USDA Seed Bank in Fort Collins, CO and at Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. These off-site deposits remain the property of SSE.