New Plants Grown from Seeds found in Old Trading Ships

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New Plants Grown from Seeds found in Old Trading Ships

These lush green plants contain more history than one would imagine. They came from soil carried as ballast in early shipping boats. The empty trading ships needed weighing down, for balance, and what could be easier, and cheaper than to use soil. Once they arrived in port, they dumped the ballast (earth, sand, rocks, etc) unto the river banks and picked up their cargo. The boats roamed the seas between 1680 and the early 1900's. In this way the seeds were carried from ports and regions all over Europe. Now, hundreds of years later, the seeds in that soil have been planted in an old barge (how appropriate) and floated down a river in Bristol, UK. © Max McClure The project by Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alvesis, (who just happens to be co-founder of Brazil's Green Party) is called Seeds of Change . She discovered that these ballast seeds can lie dormant for hundreds of y...

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Cool RT @christackett This is amazing. Soil used as ballast in old trading ships from 1680-1900 used to grow new plants [link]
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Dormant seeds in soil used as ballast in old trading ships from 1680 - 1900 used to grow new plants. [link]
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RT @stonehinge_: 오래된 목선을 개조해 그 위에 채소를 기른다. 이것도 재미난 도시농업의 한 형태로, 운하가 발달한 곳에서 신선한 채소를 바로 길러 날라서 팔 수 있는 방법이겠다. [link]
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오래된 목선을 개조해 그 위에 채소를 기른다. 이것도 재미난 도시농업의 한 형태로, 운하가 발달한 곳에서 신선한 채소를 바로 길러 날라서 팔 수 있는 방법이겠다. [link]
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RT @christackett: This is amazing. Soil used as ballast in old trading ships from 1680 - 1900 used to grow new plants. [link]
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This is amazing. Soil used as ballast in old trading ships from 1680 - 1900 used to grow new plants. [link]
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Seeds from ballast soil dumped in river at Bristol for 100s of years by ships from all over Europe dredged up & planted [link]
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