The Educator Stockpiling—and Sharing—Turkey's Heritage Seeds

Nardane Kuşçu tramps through the green fields at Narköy, her organic farm and eco-property, leading the way to a small, climate-controlled room behind a greenhouse. Inside, sliding plastic containers are meticulously labeled: pazı, lahana, pembe köy domates, karpuz. This isn’t a normal storage space. Each small container holds a selection of Turkish heritage seeds, carefully selected and stored by Kuşçu herself. At Narköy, in the Western Black Sea region, she has more than 1,200 varieties of them—one of the largest collections of heritage seeds in Turkey, if not the largest….

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