Top 10 Seeds the U.S. Locked in a Doomsday Vault. How Many Do You Have? - Ask a Prepper

Two winters ago, I went online looking for heirloom tomato seeds and ended up reading about a mountain in the Arctic until one in the morning. What pulled me in was a photograph: a slab of concrete jutting out of a snowbank on a Norwegian island, with a tunnel running back into the rock. Apparently, behind that door sit 1.4 million seed samples, sealed in foil packets, frozen at minus 18 Celsius. No government spends that kind of money as a backup for a bad harvest. What got me, though, was the sorting. Somebody sat down and decided which seeds were worth freezing inside a mountain for a thousand years and which ones weren’t. Once you know what made the cut, you start noticing a gap. 1.4 Million Seed Samples Are Kept Inside a Frozen Mountain The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened in 2008 on Spitsbergen, part of the Norwegian archipelago about 800 miles from the North Pole. The facility sits deep inside a rocky mountain under permafrost, and it’s run jointly by the Norwegian Government, …