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SEED: The Untold Story - Botanical Explorer Joe - Clip

In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film SEED: The Untold Story, we meet seed-obsessed botanical explorer Joseph Simcox, who, with his brother Patrick, shows us rare and precious seeds they've collected from all over. From Bolivia to Tanzania, Peru to West Virginia to Vietnam, Simcox has collected thousands and thousands of seeds, to bring them to as large a swath of humanity as possible.

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