I am a believer in providing my own food for myself, but i am worried that in the future the pollen of GMO's will contaminate the crops i am growing at home? Is this a possibility?
Yes, it is possible. In fact, there was a case a few years back where Monsanto was taking some farmers to court because their neighbors were growing GMO soy beans and Monsanto thought the others' soybeans may have been cross with their GMO soy beans. Since the farmers Monsanto took to court were saving seeds from their crop Monsanto claimed they were benefiting from their GMO work without paying for the benefit. In essence, the companies making GMO seeds can claim you owe them for using their product even if you did not know your crop had been crossed with their modified plants' pollen if you saved seeds to plant the following year. There are also some organic growers suing Monsanto for contaminating their organic and heirloom crops with GMO pollen as this would change their foods and seeds status, possibly (probably) making them unusable for their intended purpose. Personally, I hope they win and Monsanto has to pay such a large award they have to abandon their GMO projects entirely. Google 'Monsanto sues farmers' and read about the Canadian farmer they sued and the end result of the suit; it is very interesting. Good luck and enjoy!
yes but only of you are growing soy and corn. And if you are growing sweet corn you have always had to plant either ahead or behind the field corn as any corn that crosses with sweet corn ruins it (other than other sweet corn). So if you are growing produce and herbs in your garden and not corn or soy you should not have to worry about G<O's pollinating with your crops. Also if you are not surrounded by farm fields don't worry. I have been growing a sustainable, GMO free market garden in rural SW Ohio for 17 years and they only time I had crossing was when I was growing edamame within 50 feet of a field growing GMO soy (I knew because the flower color was the same as the GMO soy and should have been another color). So i destroyed the crop. Don't worry about GMO corn pollinating your melons or lettuce, it will not happen as that sort of thing can happen only in a lab and not through natural sexual breeding.
