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Every fruit and vegetable you eat is available because someone saved a seed.
Saving seedsis as much a part of gardening as digging in the soil and planting a crop.
Here are our top ten reasons to start saving seeds from your own vegetable garden.
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Your own saved heirloom tomato seeds can produce several dozen tomatoes.
Purchased at the market, you might pay up to six dollars per pound.
Like everything else sold at retail outlets, the price of seeds also increases every year.
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Reserve your garden budget for hybrid seeds and new crops you want to try.
Heirloom and open-pollinated seeds can be harvested year after year and planted for significant savings in the long run .
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Commercially grown fruits and vegetables are grown more for appearance and shelf life than for flavor.
It’s pretty disappointing to look for that seed next season and find it’s no longer available.
Saving seeds means your favorites will always be available.
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Genetically modified foods are becoming more and more prevalent with an opposing movement equally as strong.
Commercially grown seed is subject to some regulation however these seeds can come from chemically treated crops.
In fact, many seeds are pretreated with pesticides before being sold at retail outlets.
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Tradition
Traditions strengthen family ties and provide a sense of community and security.
For some growers, saving seeds of favorite crops is a tradition handed down from generation to generation.
Stories abound about grandpa’s best beans of mom’s favoritecanning tomato.
you could also donate seeds to libraries and other organizations that provide free seeds.
Plants grown from heirloom and open-pollinated seeds provide the nectar and pollen these important insects need to survive.
One of every three bites of food you take comes from a plant pollinated by an insect.
Saving seed and replanting heirlooms and open-pollinated fruits and vegetables are an investment that helps sustain food availability.
