Wherever ASN Seed Increase Initiative volunteers gather, we feast. (Raising food for potlucks, our MO.) Tomorrow, we'll be cleaning seed, the fruit of our localizing labors. Fun, the ways our radical revisioning of food crop complexes allow for cosmic giggles with naming systems.
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Photo of seed packet full of seed with sticker identifying it as Agrarian Sharing Network Seed Increase Initiative material. And a label identifying the contents. 'Messiah Complex' Collards. Core selection from 50 row feet of 25 variety composite interbreeding complex (PNW standards x Ultracross). Spectacular size, structure, disease-resistance, coloration, productivity in extremely trying conditions. Sow in Spring for Summer thru Winter harvest. Germ 99%. 2024.
@NoemaMag @Hieraaetus end/ 'Adaptation agriculture' and 'applied agrobiodiversity' are emergent terms describing the vast array of complementary bio-cultural practices aimed at reinhabiting our diets and thus our lives. This includes 'nativizing' genepools of annual and perennial food crop cultivars. x.com/nick_routledge1/status/1737253268630511998
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Agrarian Sharing Network Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1/ Advancing Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1879928724491297014 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 1/ Advancing a landrace-breeding project: backcrossing single-species (B. oleraceae) and interspecific (B. napus x B. rapa) genepools into a multi-species parent-genepool prioritizing high resilience and productivity. Four tweets demystify the details.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Agrarian Sharing Network Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 2/ Shady Grove; Why and how; 3/ Kale Coalition; 4/ Simone; 5/ Ultracross Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1822369103220515203 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 2/ The ‘Shady Grove Mix’ is my parent genepool, consisting of a dizzying yet highly-targeted array of interbreeding kale and collard diversity, emphasizing named cultivars and populations emerging from the heart of Oregon's holistic plant-breeding complex in recent decades.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Agrarian Sharing Network Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 2/ Shady Grove; Why and how; 3/ Kale Coalition; 4/ Simone; 5/ Ultracross Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1814480045282603158 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Why and how is the ASN Seed Increase Initiative wedding highly-diverse, deliberately architected, food-crop genepools to neighborhood-level social networks, in the seamless, positively-intensifying mutualism of a single, synergistic, unitive ecology? facebook.com/share/p/dV1GV7Dn7UMqBHLc/
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Agrarian Sharing Network Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 2/ Shady Grove; Why and how; 3/ Kale Coalition; 4/ Simone; 5/ Ultracross Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1822369112477344172 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 3/ Kale Coalition, a constituent of the parent genepool, represents 15+ years of ongoing selection on a pool of 17 oleraceae kales passed along, hand-to-hand, to the Oregon-based Seed Ambassadors Project as they shared seed among independent plant breeders, in Europe in '06-'07.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Agrarian Sharing Network Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 2/ Shady Grove; Why and how; 3/ Kale Coalition; 4/ Simone; 5/ Ultracross Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1822369119293039001 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 4/ 'Simone Broadleaf' is a vigorous, highly diverse kale population from @AdaptiveSeeds selected out of Tim Peters’ distinctive interspecific (B. napus x B. rapa) creation, 'Gulag Stars’. When winter cropping, I go with Gulag Stars in greenhouses, and Simone Broadleaf in field.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Agrarian Sharing Network Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 2/ Shady Grove; Why and how; 3/ Kale Coalition; 4/ Simone; 5/ Ultracross Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1822369124376584572 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 5/ Ultracross Collard (Cottage Grove, OR, selection '24) represents our ongoing efforts to localize N. America's finest collard diversity. Our population includes Utopian Seed Project's 'Ultracross Collards', a 21-variety composite interbreeding population from North Carolina.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Kales, a passion Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1879928724491297014 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Kales, a passion. I hang on the coattails of an extraordinary cluster of holistic plant breeders - the folk largely responsible for my bioregion's rep as the 'de facto' epicenter of global 'oleraceae' _and_ 'napus' kale diversity. Photos: kales I raised, winters of 2013 and 2019. t.co/qJPwqMUQsu t.co/gMy4HMK3Ln
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