Horticulturati: Bad Seeds
Hothouse
English - August 08, 2020 19:38 - 31 minutes - 43 MB - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsScience Arts hothouse ecology gardening hothousepodcast permaculture urbanlandscapes Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Yes, it's another cross-posted episode! On this Horticulturati, we dive into the "seeds from China" story and discuss the implications and ramifications in the context of the political moment, which brings us back to an endlessly debatable question: is garden "nativism" xenophobic?
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Mentioned in this episode:
Central Texas Seed Savers; Press release from texasagriculture.gov; “Mystery Seeds Mailed From China” by Reese Oxner (Texas Tribune, 2020); Sid Miller talks about seeds (Texas Department of Agriculture Facebook page); “Against Nativism” by Michael Pollan (NYT Magazine, May 15, 1994); Sid Miller’s 2020 Texas GOP Convention video (his Facebook page).