Craig LeHoullier aka ‘North Carolina Tomato Man’ is the plant breeder behind the F3 teensy family dwarf tomato breeding population that we are trialling in the 2020 Citizen Seed Trial (CST). Craig is also the co-founder of the Dwarf Tomato Project and is responsible for 90 (and counting) tomato varieties, Read more…
Watermelon can be a bit of a difficult crop to grow in Canada… unless you’re growing Blacktail Mountain, that is! Originally bred by Glenn Drowns as a young lad at his home in Idaho, this year’s seeds came to the Citizen Seed Trial from Sal Dominelli of Gabriola Island’s Sweet Read more…
Mel and I caught up on a recent sunny afternoon over some cold lemonades on the sprawling UBC Farm… just kidding, this interview happened over Zoom like everything else during these crazy times. Nevertheless, Mel’s passion for the project and sense of humour came through clearly. Mel is the Field Read more…
Our first Citizen Seed Trial farmer interview comes to us from Hank Keogh of Avoca Seed in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Hank bred the Dazzling Blue kale variety being used as the control variety in the 2020 Citizen Seed Trial. It was also featured in the 2016 BC Seed Trials and Read more…
Welcome to the Citizen Seed Trial 2020 blog series! This year we’d like to introduce you to the people behind the Citizen Seed Trail project, from plant breeders and seed producers to the facilitators who make the project possible. We’ll be (virtually) sitting down with a number of these people Read more…
We are excited about our newest seed program, the Citizen Seed Trial, that launched this spring. We’ve shared a lot of the detail of the program already, but this is a chance to share with you what has made this project so cool for us on a personal and program Read more…