75% of the world's crop diversity has been lost in the past century. Industrial agriculture relies on fewer than 30 crops, while thousands of locally adapted varieties — resistant to drought, pests, and climate shifts — are disappearing. The Svalbard Global Vault stores backup seeds, but it's a frozen archive, not a living network. Meanwhile, small farmers and gardeners who maintained seed diversity for millennia are losing their knowledge as older generations pass away and rural communities shrink.