Sefra Alexandra: The Seed Huntress

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Josh Trent

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Monocrops are the number one most susceptible crop to pests, destruction, and possibly famine. By saving seeds, we maintain crop diversity. When we save seeds and store them, we’re not relying on the potential doom and gloom of industrial agricultural systems. - Sefra Alexandra

We find ourselves in a pinch of time in our ethnobotanical history where the genetic biodiversity of our planet is in rapid decline. The seeds that hold the knowledge of our land and the memory of our ancestors are being ignored and forgotten. Today, 93% of vegetable varieties have already gone extinct.

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"The solution for stable, nutritious crops that can grow in non-fertilized, non-irrigated soil exist; there just needs to be a larger conversation about what those crops are and how they can be shared with the world." - @TheSeedHuntress on @WellnessForce wellnessforce.com/238

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Crop Trust - Securing Our Food, Forever Our mission is to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide.

It has never been more critical to conserve crop diversity. We need the greatest possible diversity of crops to secure our food supply at a time when we are making unprecedented demands, and putting unprecedented pressure, on our environment.

A 10,000 YEAR LEGACY WE CAN’T LEAVE TO CHANCE

Throughout the history of agriculture, farmers have generated a seemingly endless diversity within crops, discovering ingenious solutions to local challenges. Meanwhile, many of the wild relatives of these crops have also persisted in nature, adapting to tough environments. Crop diversity allows farmers to feed the world. But this diversity is not in fact endless. It is disappearing, and once lost, it’s lost forever.

We need crop diversity both in farmer’s fields and stored in genebanks – available to all through an efficient global system to ensure that nutritious food will be available at stable and affordable prices without expanding agriculture’s footprint. Safeguarding biodiversity in – and around – agriculture is a prerequisite for food security.

No single institution can hold this diversity, which amounts to millions of distinct crop varieties and make it available to plant breeders and farmers around the world. The Crop Trust brings together and secures those genebanks that are tasked by the international community with conserving this legacy for all of us.

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0:00.0	You can either focus on the doom and gloom of the big corporations or realize that the power is inherently exactly the opposite.
0:07.0	It's completely in our hands.
0:09.0	When we take those seeds and we plant them and then we're saving them and we're not relying on these bigger industrial
0:14.5	agricultural systems, then that's how we build our own resilience.
0:18.1	The cornerstone and the key zones of resilience is maintaining our own diversity.
0:28.0	That's Suffra Alexandra, and this is episode 238 of Wellness Sports Radio. What's up my friend? It's your host Josh Trent,
0:31.0	and welcome back to another episode for your weekly access to
0:34.0	global experts in all things wellness as we discover the physical and
0:37.5	emotional intelligence we need to live life well. In this episode we're talking about seeds, but not just any kind of seed, the kind of seeds that can save the world.
0:48.0	We're learning about this from the seed huntress herself, Sepfra Alexandra.
0:52.0	Now I met her live in person over three days in Lake Tahoe which I know you're gonna love this podcast for so many reasons first of all
0:59.9	Sepfra is a complete dynamo when it comes to creation.
1:04.0	Not only is she the seed huntress, but she's also one of the co-hosts on the Spartan podcast,
1:09.4	the Spartan Up show, which I got to be a guest on that is coming out very soon.
1:13.9	This episode, though, really got to me because I learned brand new things, which you're going
1:17.8	to learn as well.
1:18.8	Like, for example, did you know, not only is there a global seed vault in Norway that the Norwegian government paid 45 million dollars for,
1:26.4	but also that we find ourselves in a pinch of time when it comes to seeds and saving seeds
1:31.3	with the recent landslide vote in court against Monsanto
1:35.0	and all the other informational pieces coming out
1:37.0	about our genetic biodiversity,
1:39.0	how this planet is in rapid decline
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