By Katie Lamar Jackson | March 2009

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For 10,000 years or more—ever since humans first began cultivating crops, in fact—people have ensured their gardening future by saving seed from one year’s planting to use the following year.

Today, many people rely on seed companies for their annual seed stock so seed saving has become something of a lost art. However, more and more farmers and gardeners interested in preserving heirloom varieties and in protecting the genetic diversity of food and fiber crops are saving and sharing seeds.