Seed Adaptability

CALLER 

• Had terrible luck planting anasazi beans last year. He started them in March. Any solutions?

COMMENTARY

• Bill McDorman talks about the adaptability of older seeds, like corn for example. It’s basically a tropical grass that has prospered all over the world.

Ancient Agriculture

COMMENTARY

• Uptown Farmers Market. Every Saturday and Wednesday morning in Phoenix.
• Bill talks about the oldest recorded ancient agriculture dig near Tucson. Producing chapalote corn. Led to the spread of growing corn in other cultures by trial and error.
• Once you find something that works, share it and grow it.
• Mention of Glass Gem Corn. Has its own Facebook page.
• Romey’s story of using sunflower seeds for fly control.

CALLER

• Has a 20 year old pepper plant that died. Has a few of the seeds from that plant. How to get a new plant started?
• Some seeds have to go through the digestion of a bird for them to germinate.

Seeds Are Impressive

COMMENTARY

• You can store what you don’t use to plant later.
• Seeds don’t die – we kill them. Farmer Greg explains.
• Greg and Bill have formed a Seed School Online