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A sharing economy for plants: Seed libraries are sprouting up

  • Written by Michael Carolan, Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Affairs, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University
A sharing economy for plants: Seed libraries are sprouting upGot a license for those seeds?xuanhuongho/Shutterstock.com

Thanksgiving may be uniquely American, but its core spirit was exported from harvest festivals stretching back for millennia. Its essence is being grateful for what one has, while noting a duty to share one’s good fortune.

In my new book, “The Food Sharing Revolution: How...

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