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Pretty cool program

WALDOBORO, Maine — When researchers in Scotland needed seeds to grow Bere, a very old barley variety once cultivated for thousands of years in highlands, they looked across the Atlantic to a midcoast Maine high school.

With more than 800 varieties in its seed bank, the Medomak Valley High School Heirloom Seed Project is the oldest and one of the largest high school-based seed-saving programs in the country.

They had exactly what the folks in Scotland were looking for for their heritage seed project.

“We ship seeds all over the world,” said Neil Lash, Medomak horticulture professor and director of the program. “It is really an international project.”

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