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Seed
Cleaning and Drying Area |
After harvest, the bulk seed heads, pods, and capsules are
brought to an airy verandah for completion of their maturation,
drying and cleaning. Volunteers, interns and staff clean and
file the samples. Baskets collected from Malaysia, Indonesia,
Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, Brazil and Zimbabwe are
used for sorting and winnowing.
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of the basket collection. |
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Seed
heads are spread out on the lawn on sunny days. |
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buckets are used to dry and store the seed heads.
The white background is useful for sorting seeds from
chaff. |
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Volunteer,
Robin Parker, cleaning seeds on the front veranda.
Robin now runs a seed programme in Melbourne. |
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Intern, Amber Tucker, cleaning
Green Oakleaf Lettuce seeds. Amber went on to work
in India for four months with GREEN Foundation near
Bangalore. Read about it in People and in Projects.
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Shelling
Mucuna (Velvet Beans) which were grown up a
tall trellis. They are reputed to be one of the most
productive green manures in the tropics. |
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beans (Canavalia gladiata) grow well at The
Seed Centre. Their bright pink coats never fail to
draw comment. |
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Seeds
and their pods of all sizes and shapes. Okra is in
the centre, lotus on the lower right, with the large
grey seed at right of centre being the baobab of Africa. |
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