Today, America’s abundant crops —corn, wheat, and vegetables —come from only about 30 hybrid varieties that cannot reproduce themselves. The seed for all hybrid crops must be grown fresh each year, from open-pollinated “heritage” crops. But a United Nations study found that over 90 percent of all heritage crops grown in the U.S. in 1900 were extinct by 1950. And the extinction continues, at an alarming rate.

The SeedTime Project is a conservation initiative founded by best-selling author Kevin Orlin Johnson, Ph.D., that has gathered more than 90,000 of America’s heritage farmers and gardeners to ensure the future of food crops, herbs, flowers, and landscape plants. Now the Project offers a television series, SeedTime: Saving the World’s Future Food in America’s Home Gardens, in which Johnson visits America’s most colorful heritage growers to explain:

• Why all hybrid plants in a crop, genetically identical to all others, can be wiped out by a single pest.

• How to cultivate, propagate, and use these priceless plants yourself.

• Which supermarket fruits and vegetables boast ancestry thousands of years old.

• How heritage plants are rooted in song, story, art, and ethnic culture.

• How you can save endangered species in your own backyard.

CREDENTIALS: An experienced teacher and speaker best known for books on Catholic Christianity, Kevin Orlin Johnson is a lifelong heritage gardener. He is a frequent guest on national and worldwide radio talk shows ranging from David Rubin’s Strange Universe to BBC programs from London, Sydney, and Singapore.
www.SeedTime.tv

AVAILABILITY: TX, nationwide by arrangement
and via telephone
CONTACT: Sheryl Cleere, (214) 821-7939 (TX), metatron@airmail.net