Transcript: Environmentalists Adopt New Weapon: Seed Balls

ROBERT SIEGEL
NPR All Things Considered
04-15-2009
Environmentalists Adopt New Weapon: Seed Balls

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time 21:00-22:00 PM


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Now, a little eco-vocabulary lesson: seed balls. If you go to YouTube and search the term, you'll find a surprising number of entries all for a technique of planting on abandoned and often inhospitable land. Seed balls were developed in Japan, but they're now being used all over the U.S. by local organizations that want to spruce up their neighborhoods.

NPR's Margot Adler caught up with one group throwing seed balls in Brooklyn.

MARGOT ADLER: First of all, here's how you make seed balls. Here's Emily Gallagher, a member of ...

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