Seed to Seed

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Moving Beyond (07:17)
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"I am a Christian, I am a mom, a wife, a homemaker, a leader, a knitter, a quilter… I’m lots of things. Accepting the label felon was really hard."

Missing Kim (07:27)
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Dick Moreau has hung over 50,000 posters of his daughter around the area of Jay, Maine. This is the story of one family's 26-year quest for answers.

Strategy Not Strength (05:16)
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The Last Word (06:49)
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Members of the Passamaquoddy tribe are working to prevent the imminent disappearance of their people's ancient language.

356 Years Later (05:36)
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Earlier this year, Kateri Tekakwitha became the first Native American saint. The 356-year-old saint helps American Indians cope with the Catholic Church’s troubling past.

From This Point On (07:12)
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Joanna Foster was worried when her first deaf child was born. When her second baby was born deaf and autistic, she was devastated. Joanna started learning how to sign and ...

Silent Seekers (06:41)
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Most people know Sufism as the religion practiced by the whirling dervishes. But this mystical form of Islam has taken root in America, too.

Moving Closer (06:24)
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Whitley Newman, also known as Nabintu, isn’t who you’d expect to be teaching a Rwandan dance class. She’s a small, blonde woman from the Midwest.

15 Minutes of Shame (07:35)
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A small town's shocking scandal becomes national news, but no one is really sure why. The defendant was sentenced May 31, 2013.

Bruised (06:32)
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Brain injuries have been in the news a lot lately - with soldiers and sports heroes suffering from acquired brain injuries, science and the public have started to take ...

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Less than five percent of the seed varieties available one hundred years ago still exist today, according to the Seed Savers Exchange, a nationwide heirloom gardener’s organization. Will Bonsall of Industry, Maine is one of the many seed-savers working to prevent further loss of food crop diversity. His Scatterseed Project is an attempt to preserve genetic diversity by growing rare varieties for seed and distributing the seed to gardeners around the world. It’s the largest effort of it’s kind in the country.