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Heirloom seeds help in getting natural products
Posted: Oct 10, 2013
Getting hold of something which is natural and full of hygiene is what we all want. But still there are several such processes that do give us food and that also at a cheaper rate but the quality is not up to the mark as these are not produced in the best possible environment in which food should be grown or in which that particular food should be grown. There are various such processes that help produce such hybrid varieties of food and they include mainly growing them in closed or forced pollination conditions and the ones that alter the genes of the originals so that we can get different varieties of the same product. These are done in order to raise the food number but in such an attempt we do ignore the quality by a huge amount. Heirloom seeds are one such seed varieties that are produced in conditions of open pollination which is the natural way of producing seeds. The seeds that are considered best are selected from the lot of the seeds that are produced in the gardens of the people or these are the bought from the markets also at times. They are then sowed in natural conditions for future growth.
The idea of open pollination is not only restricted to seeds but also to fruits, flowers and vegetables. This method had been almost lost in the race of maximizing the food quantity but now there are efforts going on to retrieve back the earlier quality of seeds and food items. This is also increasingly used because of the growing cases of quality disputes regarding canned food. They are termed as fresh but in real they are not so always. Survival seed bank is a very good alternative to canned food as it requires you to store some of the best varieties of the seeds available to you after gardening for the next season or year. These are stored in special kits which are designed in such a way that no matter what the environmental conditions are the seeds would always be up to the mark. These can then be again produced and stored in the future seasons. Even if you are thinking of buying these from the market then make sure that they are non-GMO seeds. GMO seeds are the seeds that are genetically modified ones through different technologies that in the name of producing good seeds actually destroy them from all the useful minerals that they do possess in them. The biggest disadvantage of using these is that the originality of the seed is lost after you modify them. Prepper supplies are emergency supplies which are very handy in times when you fall into a situation in which you require them as soon as you can. These are stored in seed banks which are suitable for storing any kind of things in any sort of a climate. These can be bought in the shops which specialize in such kinds of supplies. The main reason for anyone to opt for these should be healthy food which is impossible to get without using these kits.