Seeds are far more present in our lives than most of us realize. They compose everything from our morning coffee to our favorite chocolates and have helped shape the world as we know it.

California native seeds are just as vital, and protecting them is a way of safeguarding our very future.

Join me and Cheryl Birker at the California Botanic Garden as we explore the hidden world of seeds. In this episode, we take a deeper look into the difference between spores and seeds, seeds that require fire to germinate, seeds that survived for 2,000 years in the Judean Desert, and how safeguarding seeds is a way of safeguarding life as we know it.

Links:

Get 15% off your order of California native seeds from the California Collection by Nature’s Seed when you use the code GOLDEN15 at checkout.

Speak up for California’s public lands with CalWild.

Cacao Seeds as Currency

California Plant Rescue

Seed Germination Data

Seed photos by John Macdonald

Seed Savers Exchange (the catalogue mentioned at the end of the episode)

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Photo: Prickly poppy seeds by Michelle Fullner, taken at the California Botanic Garden.