{"id":2977,"date":"2015-12-06T13:31:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T12:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2977"},"modified":"2015-12-06T13:35:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T12:35:49","slug":"2977-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2977","title":{"rendered":"Adaptive Seeds and the Seed Ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I knew I was going to Oregon, high on my list of places to visit was the Sweet Home of Adaptive seeds, where Andrew Still and Sarah Kleeger grow seed of many vegetable varieties organically including several perennials, offered through their Adaptive Seed catalogue (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adaptiveseeds.com\">https:\/\/www.adaptiveseeds.com<\/a>). \u00a0I think I first came across Adaptive Seeds\u00a0\u00a0when I was offered \u00a0seed of \u00a0one of their varieties, Tuscan Arugula by a seed trader. Further, there was a story attached to the seed, which were collected by Seed Ambassador, Kayla Preece from Agricultori Custodi, a seed preservation group in Tuscany, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Adaptive Seeds evolved out of the Seed Ambassadors project, for which Sarah and Andrew are best known in Europe. In autumn 2008, I visited seed saver, breeder and grower of unusual \u00a0vegetables in Belgium, Lieven David. He wrote to me soon afterwards:\u00a0 <em>\u201c<\/em><em>I enjoyed your visit very much too. Your tour now reminds me of the Seed Ambassadors\u2019 (<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedambassadors.org\/\">http:\/\/www.seedambassadors.org\/<\/a><\/em><em>) visit on February 2, 2007\u00a0: sharing seeds &amp; plants &amp; knowledge &amp; tastes\u00a0!\u201d. <\/em>For\u00a0Andrew and Sarah had travelled to Europe on a combined vacation and seed collecting trip and they became known as Seed Ambassadors! Since then, over 800 varieties of new food plant varieties have been introduced by the Seed Ambassadors which includes my friend and long time leader of Danish Seed Savers, Lila Towle!<\/p>\n<p>When Chris Homanics, who was showing me around the area near to Eugene, suggested that we give his friend Andrew Still a call to see if he was home, I jumped at the opportunity! It was great to meet you guys and see your great work first hand! This picture album is a little memento of my visit on 28<sup>th<\/sup> August 2015. Please feel free to correct, add etc.\u00a0 I lost what notes I had taken at the time!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/pictures\/index.php?\/category\/93\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/pictures\/index.php?\/category\/93<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, Sweet Home is where they are located;<br \/>\nWikipedia: Sweet Home\u00a0is a city in\u00a0the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The population was 8,925 at the 2010 census!<br \/>\nI would encourage you to support these guys who are doing great work for increasing food security through conserving our vegetable diversity! Again\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adaptiveseeds.com\u00a0\">https:\/\/www.adaptiveseeds.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I knew I was going to Oregon, high on my list of places to visit was the Sweet Home of Adaptive seeds, where Andrew Still and Sarah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2977","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31968,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2977\/revisions\/31968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}