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Seed Sovereignty/Grassroots seed savers & libraries organize
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Seed Sovereignty/Grassroots seed savers & libraries organize
Date: 9/30/2014 11:30:05 AM ( 10 y ago)
I do not want to lose track of this article that Devon wrote.
Here is the URL. I will be getting back and updating this issue after the Yom Kippur. That is my focus now.
http://ejfood.blogspot.com/2014/08/seed-sovereignty-grassroots-seed-savers.html
From Devon's Article:
Devon G. Peña | Las Colonias de San Pablo, CO | August 31, 2014
On August 5, I reported on the closing down of a seed library in Pennsylvania by the state’s Department of Agriculture. A week later, August 13, I posted an analysis and position paper on U.S. seed laws prepared by Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC).
Continuing with this series on Seed Sovereignty in the U.S., I am posting this call for a discussion of a National Seed Library Protocol prepared by Leslie Goldman affiliated with the Seed Library Social Network (SLSN). The call was posted on August 27 on the SLSN homepage. I have re-posted Leslie Goldman’s announcement and call for discussion below (unedited). Goldman also reports on initial email correspondence with state officials in Pennsylvania.
Leslie Goldman | Seed Library Social Network | August 27, 2014
The purpose of this Seed Library Social Network Discussion is Working Toward a National Seed Library Protocol & Changing the Seed Laws as Needed. It is being set up with the encouragement of Devon Grissim, who founded The Seed Library Social Network site, and Rick Passo, a member of the Las Vegas Seed Library. Both have been extremely inspiring to me in recent weeks. I began writing about the Simpson Seed Library-Department of Ag Communications four days after the Draft of proposed Protocols for running the Simpson Library and Seed Libraries in Pennsylvania were accepted "as is" by the Simpson Seed Library, August 1.
I went to a number of original sources including Johnny Zook, Seed Program Supervisor, for the PA Department of Ag, and Jonelle Darr, Cumberland County LIbrary Executive Director. Both of them read over my primary story for accuracy.
PLANTING CLARITY! SIMPSON SEED LIBRARY AND AG DEPT WRAP UP: http://curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=2196853.
My most recent Plant Your Dream Blog compiles my latest research that has led me to see it would be wise to come up with a mature well-rounded set of National Protocols in support of Seed Libraries that also allows them to function within existing Seed Laws.
My strategy when I wrote this was that seed library leaders could work toward a national protocol, building upon the protocols accepted by the Simpson Seed Library. I realize that there are restrictive laws in some states such as CA, that appear to block seed exchanges….the legal minds truly need to be at work here. For the states that are more lenient, I feel the Protocols need to be developed as well as looking toward changes where Seed Laws are needed. August 25, 2014
SEED PROTOCOL DISCUSSION GROUP NOTES: http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=2197727.
COMMUNICATIONS WITH JOHNNY ZOOK, SEED PROGRAM SUPERVISOR, PA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
COMMUNICATIONS WITH JOHNNY ZOOK, SEED PROGRAM SUPERVISOR, PA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
I have numbers of emails and phone conversations with Johnny Zook. As of August 27, 2014, my assessment is: If Seed Laws in some states, such as California, were as lenient as Seed Laws in Pennsylvania, we would have an easier time moving toward National Protocols without the need to change Seed Laws. I have found Johnny Zook well meaning and accessible. He has been forthcoming with ideas and suggestions. In my most recent email of he said:
On Aug 26, 2014, at 5:27 AM, "Zook, Johnny" wrote:
I am willing to take suggestions, and if you know people [that] have ideas it would be good for me to have them sooner than later.
Numbers of states are reaching out to Zook now and they will be modeling their protocols on what the Simpson Library accepted. The “soon the better” that we discuss here what we want to be accepted.
OTHER RECENT ARTICLES I WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON LATER
http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2014/09/22/seed-libraries-dig-their-heels-protect-their-right-share
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