CHAPTER 13 - HISTORY OF SEED STORAGE IN AMERICA

When preparing for the possibility of needing to depend on your emergency food storage indefinitely for months or even years, seed storage should be one of the main priorities that can literally make the difference between life and death. 

The very survival of America can be attributed at least in some small part to seed storage.  Soon after the first colonists and pilgrims landed in the New World, Captain Myles Standish found and confiscated a stash of Indian corn seeds buried in the ground while on an exploring expedition inland from the coast. 

This might be the very first emergency food storage documented in American history and it definitely proves the value of storing seeds as these seeds were instrumental in successfully warding off complete starvation and annihilation of the first settlers. 

Although the threats causing the potential for starvation in today’s world might have changed, it is no less important to store seeds in preparation for disaster than it was way back then during the founding of our nation. 

But we have the added benefits of scientific research and experience down through the years that have given us the knowledge of even better ways and means of storing seeds in order to provide life-giving nutrition in situations where the typical sources of food are no longer available for whatever reason.