EDN Issue 143 - Now Available
已出版
2019-04-26
In this issue:
- Learning about and from local seed systems
- Germination to Detoxify Jack Bean
- Techniques to Boost Plants’ Stress Tolerance and Extend Fruit Marketability
- From ECHO's Seed Bank: Fever Tree
- Books, Web Sites and Other Resources: Planetary Health Diet Proposal
Learning about and from Local Seed Systems
Dawn Berkelaar
Excerpt:
Access to viable seed is critical for successful farming. This is one reason our seed banks in Florida (USA), Thailand, and East Africa offer trial packets of seed to our network members. We have written about how to hold a seed fair, to enable people within a community to share and acquire seeds directly from each other. But what do we know about how seed normally flows throughout a small farming community?