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Post by synergy on Mar 15, 2011 3:15:52 GMT -5
I was thinking about all the seed storing people do . Would anyone like to try to find a group in Japan and contribute open pollinated seed for their spring gardens? I am a new gardener so I do not have seed saved but I would be happy contribute to shipping . I just think it would be an appreciated gesture of love and caring .
Lisa
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Post by littleminnie on Mar 15, 2011 10:35:10 GMT -5
Totally yes, if you can find a way to do it.
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Post by cortona on Mar 15, 2011 16:37:26 GMT -5
i'm in! surely i like to do it if i can find a way to do it!
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Post by ottawagardener on Mar 15, 2011 16:53:16 GMT -5
I have seed!
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Post by synergy on Mar 15, 2011 18:24:54 GMT -5
So advice from retail seed and garden centres and the University has been that I might send invasive weeds, that we may have incompatible climate zones (they are 7 -9 from the map I saw of Japans climate zones ) that they people might not know how to grow them or use a vegetable, that there are lots of red tape for agricultural exports as I could spread diseases. Why do people always say you cannot do something but it is jolly well good to have nuclear plants but heaven forbid a package of swiss chard seeds might being foreign and invasive. How baddly out of control is it going to get if the people are hungry?
We have GMO wheat, corn , cotton, trees, alfalpha etc. with a stranglehold on the agricultural and forestry industry and I might be problematic sending open pollinated seed ?
You know how you put something in an envelope and mail it? Well that is about as complicated as I see it, not planning to send anything I would not grow in my own 7b yard and eat but i am sure that will be seen as an act of terrorism , well I'll deal with that when I am caught and hauled away.
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Post by synergy on Mar 15, 2011 20:21:49 GMT -5
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." -- the Dalai Lama
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 15, 2011 21:34:13 GMT -5
With the billion pieces of mail that are shipped daily, most things get through most of the time. There are only around a million postal employees worldwide. That's too much mail and too few people to ever inspect more than a tiny portion of it.
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Post by garnetmoth on Mar 15, 2011 22:54:27 GMT -5
Ill see if anyone will take lead on Kitchen Gardeners International (How I met Salma in Pakistan) - theyll likely have more important things to deal with.
I sent most of my seed to Salma and WinterSown at harvest, Ive got about a cup of Tenderette green beans and can likely divert some tomatoes, and a few greens if anyone is sending packages.
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Post by synergy on Mar 16, 2011 0:44:42 GMT -5
Thank you all, all my friends in the horse community too are generously supportive of reaching out as well. I think it will be a matter of try and try again to find some community gardening communities out of the most dangerous zones and to liase with but at this moment in time I think stress levels are so high, to be sensitive to their situation I will be careful at this time about contacting people there. Still I will search for people willing to donate and for recipients .
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Post by jack66 on Mar 16, 2011 10:49:01 GMT -5
Cheer Synergy and Joseph. If I can obtain address gardeners to Japan it is with happiness that I would forward of the seed envelopes most simply possible.  peace with people of good will.  "Let make God it is a man who has old age". |
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Post by jack66 on Mar 16, 2011 11:01:49 GMT -5
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Post by bunkie on Mar 17, 2011 10:26:09 GMT -5
count me in too, synergy, for sending seed.
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Post by wildseed57 on Mar 17, 2011 10:53:59 GMT -5
I could add a few seeds, Tomatoes and yard long beans. It will be awhile before there is enough clean up done for any one to grow a garden in the strike zone. You might have some luck if you reached some of the towns that were not touched.
George W.
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Post by jack66 on Mar 17, 2011 13:30:29 GMT -5
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Post by galina on Mar 17, 2011 13:53:15 GMT -5
What a good idea to organise something to lift the spirits of people who have suffered so much.
Whether sending seeds right now is appropriate whilst we wait to hear how bad the radiation contamination is, I am not so sure though. The tsunami devastated north western agricultural coastal areas which are now contaminated with debris and salt from sea water. Nothing will be grown there for a while either.
The embassies are busy helping search whether family members are alive and organising papers and transport.
I have just checked with the Disasters Emergency Committee website and they don't (yet) have a Japan appeal open, but say that the British Red Cross is collecting for the Japanese Red Cross.
Do we have Japanese members on this forum? Please let us know what we can do to help.
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