Statement of Purpose

J. L. HUDSON, SEEDSMAN, BOX 337, LA HONDA, CALIFORNIA 94020-0337 USA

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

"Preservation Through Dissemination"

"Conservation, Propagation, Education"

Preservation

The Preservation of Biological Diversity Through:
In Situ Preservation of Botanical Diversity - Protecting Ecosystem Processes Here at Las Sombras Biological Preserve
Ex Situ Preservation of Botanical Diversity - Cultivation, Propagation, Dissemination, and Naturalization of At-Risk Plants
To Provide Public Access to Plant Genetic Resources Through the Seed Bank, Thereby Promoting Decentralized Preservation of Plant Diversity
Conservation of Rare Crop Germplasm - Ex Situ Reproduction and Dissemination of At-Risk Crop Genetic Diversity

Research

To Conduct Primary Research into Effective Means of Long-Term Storage of Seeds and to Share Our Findings With Other Seed Banks
To Conduct Primary Research into Effective Means of Overcoming Dormancy of Seeds and to Share our Findings With Other Seed Banks, Propagators, and the Public, in Order to Promote Propagation of At-Risk Plants
To Conduct Non-Invasive Long-Term Ecological Research at Las Sombras Biological Preserve

Education

To Educate the Public on the Many Facets of Biological Diversity, the Importance of Biodiversity Conservation, and To Educate the Public Concerning Threats to Biodiversity
To Educate the Public About Modern Ecological Theory and the Interconnectedness of All Life
To Educate the Public About Modern Evolutionary Theory and the Common Ancestry of All Living Beings
To Educate the Public About the Evolutionary Common Ancestry of All Peoples and Promote an Ethic of Unity Out of Diversity
To Educate the Public About the Privatization of Biological Resources and to Promote Strategies to Maintain the Biological Commons
To Educate the Public About the Importance of Vanishing Ethnobotanical Knowledge and to Promote Public Access to Recorded Ethnobotanical Traditions

Ethics

To Promote an Ethic of Respect for the Diverse Organisms Around Us
To Promote an Ethic of Responsible Care for Wildlands, and to Oppose Industrial Models of Ecosystem and Wildland Management
To Promote an Ethic of Respect for Rural and Indigenous Peoples

Society

To Promote and Coordinate Decentralized Preservation Strategies
To Promote the Continued Teaching of Evolution and Science in Schools
To Promote Organic, Regenerative, and Sustainable Agriculture, and Actively Oppose the Industrialization of Organic Agriculture
To Promote Sustainable Rural Lifestyles That Enhance Local Ecosystem Processes Rather Than Diminish Them
To Promote Healthy, Sustainable Rural Economies, Enhance the Economic Well-Being of Rural Peoples, and Support Jeffersonian Land-Tenure as the Path to Humanity's Food Security
To Promote the Independence of Rural Peoples That They May Obtain Adequate Livelihood Without Compromising the Future Productivity of Their Lands

Practice

Activism

To Actively Oppose the Mismanagement of Public and Private Wildlands
To Actively Oppose Industrial Attempts to Redefine and Co-opt Organic Agriculture
To Actively Oppose Industrial Attempts to Redefine and Co-opt Environmentalism
To Actively Oppose the Theft of the Biological Commons by Governments and Corporations
To Actively Oppose the Politicization of Environmentalism - All People Need a Healthy World