800-Year Old Extinct Squash Grown from Heirloom Seed Resurrected

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By Christina Sarich

The importance of heirloom, non-GMO seed has recently been made exceedingly apparent with an odd discovery at an archeological dig at the First Nation’s Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin.

A clay vessel about the size of a tennis ball was pulled from the earth. After carbon dating, researchers found an assortment of seeds that they say are more than 800 years old. One of the seeds was a squash variety thought to be extinct.

A group of Canadian students decided to see if the seeds would yield anything. When they planted the ancient heirloom squash seeds that had been buried for hundreds …read more

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