The Plowboy Interview Kent Whealy

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January/February 1982
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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PLOWBOY: This all seems like an enormous amount of work for one man. What sort of inspiration helps keep you going?

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WHEALY: Our group is really lucky, I think, to have the chance to do something that will affect future generations in such a positive way. As I've already emphasized, the stockpile of genetic wealth is dwindling rapidly . . . and our descendants will have to work with whatever we manage to save of those horticultural resources.

You know, there's sort of a tidal wave of greed sweeping this society, but we can't let it chip away at our agricultural inheritance. We are the stewards of this sacred wealth and it's up to us to preserve and pass it on . . . and that's why I'm willing to dedicate my life to saving as much as is possible of our vanishing vegetable heritage.

EDITOR'S NOTE: A yearly subscription to the Seed Savers Exchange—which includes a copy of the Winter Yearbook and the Fall Harvest Edition—costs $6.00 (write to Kent Whealy, Director, Dept. TMEN, RR 2, Princeton, Missouri 64673). The 1982 edition of the SSE yearbook should reach subscribers about March 1. Kent wishes to remind all interested gardeners, however, that he serves only as a clearinghouse for access to rare vegetables . . . so no seeds are available directly from him.

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