This last Thur till Sun i was blessed to be appart of the severn valley bidynamic apprentice course in Botton Village Yorkshire. The focus of the time was seeds.
What an education and what an eye opener.
The commercial plant species( an animal) as we know them are under serious threat.
The corporations who are pulling the strings are encoraging the supermarkets to encorage the scientists to be inspired to design the plants of the future.
No slow steady plant selection exsists anymore on that market, no open pollination exsists.
Laboratory work is where plants evloution is at hand. An work with no vision outside of money.
Old breeds of plant and animal are now becoming exstinct as the new Hybrids, GM and non GM have the only place. One can not keep ones seed as much does not have seed as well much is sterile.
This is a very dark tunnel which i have only just looked down, the organic movement in the Uk as great as it is has not seemed to take up the task of growing for seed therefore they buy from these companies those seeds which are organic but only first or second generation,, This is unstable as well as supportive of the wrong industry.
The biodynmamic seed group is attempting to pool there seeds and work with the farmers to maintain plant varieties and soon look at breeding there own plants( not in a lab and no interbreeding but open poolinated careful selection) The carrot variety from Botton is 15 yr as a biodynamic plant..
Any who!! The time was good and i learnt alot ablout the way to select and develop a crop over time. It was a very useful weekend and i had fun.
Botton is a very special place and i would recommend it to anyone to visit when in the Yorkshire area. It is an excellent example of community living.
What an education and what an eye opener.
The commercial plant species( an animal) as we know them are under serious threat.
The corporations who are pulling the strings are encoraging the supermarkets to encorage the scientists to be inspired to design the plants of the future.
No slow steady plant selection exsists anymore on that market, no open pollination exsists.
Laboratory work is where plants evloution is at hand. An work with no vision outside of money.
Old breeds of plant and animal are now becoming exstinct as the new Hybrids, GM and non GM have the only place. One can not keep ones seed as much does not have seed as well much is sterile.
This is a very dark tunnel which i have only just looked down, the organic movement in the Uk as great as it is has not seemed to take up the task of growing for seed therefore they buy from these companies those seeds which are organic but only first or second generation,, This is unstable as well as supportive of the wrong industry.
The biodynmamic seed group is attempting to pool there seeds and work with the farmers to maintain plant varieties and soon look at breeding there own plants( not in a lab and no interbreeding but open poolinated careful selection) The carrot variety from Botton is 15 yr as a biodynamic plant..
Any who!! The time was good and i learnt alot ablout the way to select and develop a crop over time. It was a very useful weekend and i had fun.
Botton is a very special place and i would recommend it to anyone to visit when in the Yorkshire area. It is an excellent example of community living.
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