Nick Routledge@AgrarianSharing

Why our deliberate focus on 'shallot rescue'? For one, chronic diversity loss; accentuated by scientific plant-breeding trends effectively taking shallots non-clonal and, in the process putting the crop beyond the propagative reach of anybody but Big Seed. facebook.com/groups/agrariansharingnetwork/posts/3459209060994827/

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Quoted by@Englishomestead Truly delighted to hear you're working with shallots, Kev. For reasons that have everything to do with the way Big Money interfaces with food systems at the plant-breeding level, a tiny handful of huge corporations are simply removing common folk's ability to regenerate them.