"As I learn the stories about this cucumber, or that tomato, or this corn, and I learn this is an Iroquois corn, or a southern tomato, or a Syrian cucumber, I'm making sure I put that story out there and get the seeds to a person from that part of the world and excited to keep those stories," he said. "Reconnecting seeds to people is a way of reconnecting them to the land. Even if they don't touch the soil, they have this connection to the food."