If you listened to last week's podcast you know the metaphor. Charles Ingalls represents the heirloom seeds industry and AC Slater represents the hybrids. The big question we asked last week is whether or not heirlooms and hybrids can grow in the same garden? Do we really need another war? Really? Renee Shepherd of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden put it best:
Champions of heirlooms insist that they are the saviors of world food crop diversity, foot soldiers in the battle against an increasingly powerful cartel of seed companies. Hybrid proponents dismiss the heirloom advocates as agricultures version of tree huggers, inflexible ideologues standing in the way of progress by rejecting the superior disease resistance and commercial viability of hybrids.
This week on the Rock Garden Tour we're going to get into it, big time. Our angle, can't we all just get on? Harmony? Peace? Rock & Roll? Ever hear of it? Isn't the garden big enough for both sides? Feel free to weigh in on the matter and keep it rural.
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