RT @nick_routledge: I suspect I'll be talking, veiled, about the resurrective ontology of New World Creation today - the Good News of Mustard seed cast in fertile ground. By way of context though, here I am, in 2013, going toe-to-toe with Monsanto’s Global Director of Vegetable Breeding Technology.
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Here, deets of Save Our Seeds Day, a free community event in Talent, OR, on Friday May 16, celebrating the 11th anniversary of the passing of Measure 15-119 that created Jackson County as a GMO-free seed zone. . Save Our Seeds Day Friday May 16 from 4.00 - 8.00 p.m. Cedarwood Barn 7912 Wagner Creek Rd, Talent, OR 97540 Learn more and RSVP at:
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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.
@GRAIN_org 2/ For many reasons, our home-base ecoregion is a world center for plant-breeding and seed-increases. Not unrelatedly, we are also the ‘de facto’ heartland of the US holistic plant-breeding movement. As such, the field politics of seed ecology is especially complex, hereabouts.
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