Rowen White talks about corn and squash seed keeping in episode 5 of The Seed Growers Podcast. Here are some of the highlights of the corn conversation: • Isolating corn in time and space to avoid cross pollination • Differences in growing corn for stock seed vs bulk seed • Evaluating small corn lots to … More How to grow corn and squash for seed
Rowen White is a Seed Keeper and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for indigenous seed and food sovereignty. Rowen grows seeds outside of Nevada City in California. In this episode Rowen talks about stock seed improvement to offset the impact of genetic drift to select culturally and bio-regionally relevant … More The seed growers podcast episode 5 – Rowen White of Sierra Seeds
Wow a second blog post in the same day!!!! This is book two is my personal Top 10 farm books of the decade. I’m presenting my Top 10 in order of publication. Let’s head to 2011 With ,,, Breeding Organic Vegetables A Step-by-Step Guide for Growers by Rowen White and Bryan Connolly This book is … More Breeding Organic Vegetables – Book Review
Last weekend was a watershed moment in the Eastern Canadian organic seedscape. A hundred or so seed growers, seed savers, farmers, gardeners, seed, seed sellers, seed buyers, academics, students, NGOs, and some folks who’d never even gardened met at Seed Connections 2012 in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Frank Morton (from Wild Garden Seeds in Philomath, Oregon) opened the event … More Looking back at SEED CONNECTIONS 2012
Almost 10 years ago, NOFA released a series of handbooks on organic principles and practices. These were compact affordable books written by experienced farmers that gave solid introductions to poultry production, seed saving, crop rotation and more. I devoured these books. NOFA-NY recently published a book that follows in the previous handbook series’s steps: Breeding … More Book Review: Breeding Organic Vegetables