A second visit to Scariff in County Clare, Ireland, to hear from the people working hard to save Ireland’s vegetable heritage and make seeds available to a new generation of gardeners.
Wheat growers are making use of hugely diverse evolutionary populations to give them the seeds they need.
What, really, is the point of conserving agricultural biodiversity? The formal sector, genebanks and the like, will say it is about genetic resources and having on hand the traits to breed varieties that will solve the challenges tomorrow might throw up. Thousands of seed savers around the world might well …
Carol Deppe was a guest here a few months ago, talking about how most people misunderstand the potato, which is about as nutritious a vegetable as you could hope for. I found out about that because I was checking out her new book, The Resilient Gardener, which offers all kinds …
The big question is, why do amateur growers and those who choose not to care even need the protection of EU seed legislation?