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Plant Breeding

Citizen Seed Trial

CST Blog: Blacktail Mountain Watermelon with Sal Dominelli

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…

By Steph Benoit, 8 months4 months ago
Citizen Seed Trial

CST Blog: Winter Rainbow Kale with Mel Sylvestre

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…

By Steph Benoit, 8 months8 months ago
Citizen Seed Trial

CST Blog: Dazzling Blue Kale with Hank Keogh

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…

By Steph Benoit, 8 months6 months ago
Citizen Seed Trial

Introducing the Citizen Seed Trial Blog Series

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…

By Steph Benoit, 8 months5 months ago

Commercial Organic Seed Production Workshop with Patrick Steiner – Winlaw, BC

Demand for organic seed is increasing across North America and many regions of BC offer a great growing environment for seed crops. On-farm seed production can bring additional revenue to your farm and help you grow seed optimally suited to your farm environment. Join long-time organic seed producer and founder Read more…

By bc seeds, 3 years3 years ago
Carrot Seed Program

Preparing the Carrot Tent for the 2018 crop

This year we have taken a bit of a different approach with setting up the isolation tent for the Carrot Seed Project by erecting the tent as late as possible before flowering. This is done in the hope that the carrot stalks will be strengthened by having more wind exposure Read more…

By bc seeds, 3 years3 years ago
BC Seed Trial

Gleaning from the Variety Showcase

9 October 2017 Chris Thoreau One of my favourite trips of the past couple years has been my venture down to Portland to the Culinary Breeding Network’s Variety Showcase. Last week (sometimes it takes a while to get to these blog posts) I made it down for my second visit Read more…

By bc seeds, 3 years ago
BC Seed Trial

Kale Breeding Workshop a Success!

Today we were happy to host Laurie McKenzie of the Organic Seed Alliance for our Kale Breeding Workshop in Duncan on Vancouver Island. We had a group of 18 eager and budding plant breeders ready to absorb all Laurie had to offer. This workshop was focused on kale as it Read more…

By bc seeds, 4 years3 years ago
Education

Certificate in Organic Vegetable Seed Production with Canadian Organic Growers

Introducing the 22-week online Certification Course in Organic Vegetable Seed Production through the Canadian Organic Growers! This flexible online course is delivered with online readings and webinars while studying The Organic Seed Grower book by John Navazio and Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties by Carol Deppe. The experienced course instructors are Patrick Read more…

By bc seeds, 4 years4 years ago

The BC Seeds Program is a project of FarmFolk CityFolk and a regional partner for the Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security