2/ My winter-crop plantings in California's Sierra Nevada foothills are a total loss, but the coast holds. There, our farm team is deep into transplanting season, including a key seed-increase—the crop complex considered the 'de facto' cornerstone of planetary Broccoli diversity.
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Screen grab of WhatsApp communication from my team at the California coast, reading: Monday: the OSU broccoli complex is in the ground! about 300 feet of her, thank God! a better picture of just the broccoli complex
What happens when the best of visionary, holistic, regenerative-design practice hooks up with revolutionary, leading-edge, ag science in an entirely novel paradigmatic combination functionally ‘clicking!’ at a co-evolutionary level?
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Copy of label on seed jacket at ASN's first spring propagation fair of the season, in Williams, OR, situated in the Applegate Valley of S. Oregon. OSU Broccoli Grex. (S. Oregon-adapted accession, 2024) Unparalleled 'modern landrace' emerging from one of the scientific agricultural research complex's most sophisticated and celebrated participatory plant-breeding programs. Adapted to the Applegate Valley by the ASN Seed Increase Initiative in 2024. 90-100 day maturity spread. Want highly adaptive Broccoli? This is it!