Alive is best. Everyone should have basil, cilantro, mint and rosemary growing year round in a kitchen window. They are so good for you. Toss them in your cooking as much as possible. Having green plants in the kitchen helps remind us all of the living nature of food and the gift of health it brings. The other primary healing herbs are garlic, ginger and tumeric. Buy fresh organic garlic and ginger and eat as much as possible. It's great for your heart. (Rosemary and Mint don't start easily from seeds. Get a small plant from your local health food store).
Locally grown. Heirloom. Organic.
Seeds are our most important resource, next to water. Whether you want to grow your own food or not you don't want Monsanto to own all the world's seeds.
Support local growers who collect seeds and preserve (our) right to do so to protect our food source. When you grow a garden, you want to know your plants will produce live seeds.