{"id":15299,"date":"2017-12-04T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=15299"},"modified":"2017-12-04T18:38:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T17:38:40","slug":"on-the-worlds-vanishing-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=15299","title":{"rendered":"On the World&#8217;s Vanishing Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article that opened my eyes to the importance of conserving our vegetable diversity was 37 years ago, written by Lawrence D Hills, Director of the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA) in the UK.\u00a0 This article was in the first newsletter that I received having recently joined the HDRA.\u00a0 Not much has changed in the intervening years, except it was the oil company Shell that was the &#8220;bad guy&#8221;. This is well worth a read for anyone interested in food and the history (now and then) of the fight to save our seeds!\u00a0 We are now 37 years on, we in KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) setting up Vegetable Sanctuaries here in Norway!<br \/>\nI had become a member of HDRA following a &#8220;chance&#8221; encounter on a train north to Edinburgh where I was studying. I was travelling with a bike as was a guy called Dave du Feu.\u00a0 Dave was and still is heavily involved in cycle campaigning. On that journey he told me of the Edinburgh Cycle Campaign, Spokes and introduced me to organic gardening and the HDRA, both of which I joined!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring800.jpg\" alt=\"HDRA_Spring80#0\" width=\"685\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring800.jpg 685w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring800-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring801.jpg\" alt=\"HDRA_Spring80#1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring801.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring801-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring802.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring802.jpg\" alt=\"HDRA_Spring80#2\" width=\"2896\" height=\"2253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring802.jpg 2896w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring802-300x233.jpg 300w, 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class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15304\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring804.jpg\" alt=\"HDRA_Spring80#4\" width=\"412\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring804.jpg 412w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring804-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/HDRA_Spring804-300x455.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article that opened my eyes to the importance of conserving our vegetable diversity was 37 years ago, written by Lawrence D Hills, Director of the Henry Doubleday 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