EP: 425 Seed Freedom & Resilience Why Open Pollinated Is More Important than Ever

EP: 425 Seed Freedom & Resilience Why Open Pollinated Is More Important than Ever - Siskiyou Seeds

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Melissa K. Norris - Modern Homesteading

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Join me and my guest, Don Tipping from Siskiyou Seeds, as we discuss the history of seeds and seed saving and how it’s changed over the past 100 years. Our conversation takes a deep dive into how seed companies source their seed (this may surprise you!) and how to know you’re getting quality seeds with the exact characteristics you want.
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@WoochiRanch 3 ай бұрын

I LOVE this history talk. History repeats itself. Best way to prepare is to learn from history!!

@rumpledbark 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, Don, for sharing what I understand to be the basic landrace gardening goal: to develop seeds that work in one’s own garden with its climate, its soil, and its pest pressures. . . What I didn’t hear mentioned is that one can speed this process up by starting with a wide diversity seeds-open-pollinated ones of a specific species-from all over one’s continent, even the world-to develop varieties that have such diverse genetics that at least something will survive seasons with marginal growing conditions. Of all the homesteading- and solely-garden-oriented vlogs and podcasts to which I subscribe, yours, Melissa, is the only one that has presented these concepts. Thank you. From Landrace Gardening, by Joseph Lofthouse: To create a landrace, start with a high diversity of seeds within a single species. Encourage natural cross-pollination-genetic diversity. Encourage selection by the local ecosystem-survival of the fittest. Use as few inputs as possible. And save the seeds.