{"id":37752,"date":"2025-04-02T16:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/i-dont-want-to-die-with-a-freezer-full-of-seeds-its-time-to-rethink-biodiversity-and-preservation-chris-smith\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:23:22","slug":"i-dont-want-to-die-with-a-freezer-full-of-seeds-its-time-to-rethink-biodiversity-and-preservation-chris-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/i-dont-want-to-die-with-a-freezer-full-of-seeds-its-time-to-rethink-biodiversity-and-preservation-chris-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t want to die with a freezer full of seeds. It\u2019s time to rethink biodiversity and preservation | Chris Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Helene proved a hard truth: a freezer of seeds is the literal version of putting all your eggs in one basket<\/p>\n<p>About a month after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/hurricane-helene\">Hurricane Helene<\/a> devastated western North Carolina last fall, Roger Wynn and I met in an Asheville, North Carolina, supermarket parking lot. He\u2019d driven two hours from Little Mountain, South Carolina, where the passing storm had also left its destructive mark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the power finally came back on,\u201d Wynn said, \u201ctwo of my freezers didn\u2019t work.\u201d Wynn was worried not about spoiled food inside, but his seed collection. On that autumn day, in an act of forced downsizing and seed philanthropy, Wynn handed over two boxes filled with seeds. He wanted me, as founder of the non-profit Utopian Seed Project, to share the seeds with farmers across the region. The boxes contained a trove of Appalachian varieties: speckled field peas, white mountain half-runner beans, purple-podded bush beans and lots of butterbeans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/apr\/02\/seeds-biodiversity-hurricane-helene\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Helene proved a hard truth: a freezer of seeds is the literal version of putting all your eggs in one basket About a month after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina last fall, Roger Wynn and I met in an Asheville, North Carolina, supermarket parking lot. He\u2019d driven two hours from Little Mountain, South &#8230; <a title=\"I don\u2019t want to die with a freezer full of seeds. It\u2019s time to rethink biodiversity and preservation | Chris Smith\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/i-dont-want-to-die-with-a-freezer-full-of-seeds-its-time-to-rethink-biodiversity-and-preservation-chris-smith\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I don\u2019t want to die with a freezer full of seeds. It\u2019s time to rethink biodiversity and preservation | Chris Smith\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}