{"id":20382,"date":"2018-12-13T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=20382"},"modified":"2018-12-14T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:30:09","slug":"visit-to-bioforsk-landvik-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=20382","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Bioforsk Landvik in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norwegian:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0I september 2012 bes\u00f8kte jeg Grimstad for \u00e5 snakke om min\u00a0 bok Around the World in 80 plants <\/em>som snart skulle se dagens lys!\u00a0Jeg holdt et foredrag for Grimstad bys museum og Aust-Agder sopp- og nyttevekstforening. Jeg ble ogs\u00e5 invitert til Bioforsk Landvik hvor \u00c5smund Asdal fra\u00a0 genressursenteret hadde et kontor. Jeg hadde samarbeidet med \u00c5smund over flere \u00e5r som leder av Planteklubben for Gr\u00f8nnsaker (Norwegian Seed Savers). Jeg ga en kort foredrag for staben etterfulgt av en tur p\u00e5 fors\u00f8ksarealene for \u00e5 se f\u00f8rsteh\u00e5nd flere av klonsamlingene som Planteklubben mottok materiale fra hvert \u00e5r!<\/p>\n

English:<\/strong> <\/em>In September 2012, I visited Grimstad in the south of Norway to give a talk about my soon to be published\u00a0 book Around the World in 80 plants<\/em>\u00a0to Grimstad bys museer and\u00a0 Aust-Agder sopp- og nyttevekstforening (the museum and local group of the Norwegian Useful Plants Society).\u00a0 I was also invited to nearby Bioforsk Landvik where \u00c5smund Asdal of the Norwegian Genetic Resource Centre had an office.\u00a0 I had collaborated with \u00c5smund over a number of years as leader of Norwegian Seed Savers (Planteklubben for Gr\u00f8nnsaker). I gave a short afternoon talk to the staff followed by a tour of the grounds to see first hand several of the clonal collections that Planteklubben received material from each year!<\/p>\n