Lela Nargi is a veteran journalist who writes about science, food and food policy, and sustainability for a wide variety of outlets, including Civil Eats, NPR’s The Salt, Sierra, Mental Floss, and Science News for Students. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Cultivating a limited number of crops reduced the genetic diversity of plants, endangering harvests. Seed collectors hope to fix it by finding the plants’ wild cousins.
