Posted Mon, 08/02/2010 - 00:26 by Jude Fanton
Former intern, Matt Brown from Kentucky, made contact with Jude by email in January 2010
I watched the videos of you putting Davidson plums to use and Michel bashing the Bunya nut! Ha! It reminded me of when Michel climbed a palm tree to cut out the fruit (growing in the ginger garden at that time) because it was not a native or desirable and he was worried too many seedlings would pop up everywhere.
Matt Brown at Seed Savers. Michel up a Cocos palm. Seed Savers friends and interns
Posted Sat, 06/02/2010 - 10:20 by Jude Fanton
Some 200,000 tonnes of US soyabeans have been blocked at EU ports this year because they contained trace amounts of two varieties of GM maize that have not yet been approved by member states.
Posted Sun, 24/01/2010 - 11:16 by Jude Fanton
Frank O'Neill, Independent Consultant and pro bono adviser to Seed Savers, New York, has expertly converted our film “Our Seeds” to a digital NTSC version for showing on TV in the USA.
Here he reports on seven screenings for societies and on television in New York.
Posted Thu, 14/01/2010 - 21:03 by Jude Fanton
You can now see and show a 34 slide Powerpoint on why and how to create food gardens in schools in our resources section.
www.seedsavers.net/resources/school-gardens-powerpoint
Posted Tue, 12/01/2010 - 21:58 by Jude Fanton
A successful strategy to overcome evaporation, protect plants from both drying hot and cold winds and to conserve water is the sunken garden. Here we see a grandiose garden in a massive fort complex and a modest urban vegetable garden, in the arid zone of western Rajasthan, India.
Posted Tue, 08/12/2009 - 16:37 by Jude Fanton
We worked in Herat, Afghanistan in 2002 and 2003 on helping the Faculty of Agriculture with their plans to conserving their local traditional varieties. Here is an article published in Living Lightly in about 2004.
Posted Fri, 04/12/2009 - 00:41 by Jude Fanton
The Hindu Times of 18th November 2009 reported that there are hundreds of cases of exporters of cotton falsely selling Bt cotton as organic.
Posted Thu, 03/12/2009 - 23:25 by Jude Fanton
We toured the rural areas around and near Jharol and met with three medium-scale farmers who organically grow vegetables, cereals, pulses and medicinal herbs. These farmers explained that it is difficult to make as much money organically as with conventional methods, though their inputs are cheaper.
Posted Thu, 03/12/2009 - 22:11 by Jude Fanton
Conversations around food -Ethical Feast in and around Udaipur 17th to 25th November 2009, by our webmaster and Feast organiser and major funder, John Brisbin
Clearly, many of us have strong ideas about the recipe for a better world. It's the challenge of "being the change" that I find most fascinating in this gathering.
Posted Thu, 03/12/2009 - 21:21 by Jude Fanton
If aid agencies are to help the poorest of the farmers they may as well invest some of their funds in helping farmers, who practically all save some seeds, to create seed networks and community seed banks.
