The seeds from these plants will be sold to gardeners and farmers, from hardware store packets to several pound bags, then grown for one season. The grower will return to the company for seed the next year. Millions of acres of land are devoted to maintaining parent lines and creating hybrid crops. This is not idyllic rural countryside. This is an outdoor commodity factory.
Seeds are products, vehicles for profit.
On the surface, city landscapes look very different from the expanses of grain and beans that stretch through the middle of the continent. However, just as the monoculture of plants is not grown to feed people, neither is the space in cities dedicated to meeting the daily needs of the people who live there. In ecology there is a phenomenon known as edge . Edge is the space where two different ecosystems meet. This could be forest and prairie, or river and desert.