I can tell it’s January because I catch myself peeking into the seed collection in my cabinet. It’s becoming something of a ritual, since some of those seeds have been waiting for me for three years. (In my defense, I did plant lettuce, spinach, kale, peas and green beans last year, but that’s just a sample of the seeds I’ve amassed.)
Fortunately, seeds are apparently everlasting. 2000-year-old date palm seeds found in the Judean desert…