This Colorado vault is keeping your favorite foods from going extinct

This Colorado vault is keeping your favorite foods from going extinct

Inside the collection site preserving the world’s biodiversity, hundreds of thousands of microbes, plant and animal cells at a time.

(Illustration by Hillary Bonhomme)

By Simran Sethi, The New Food Economy

smithsonian.com
March 9, 2018

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