While traveling in Italy, funny things happened to my knowledge of tomatoes. Two things particularly, the first was the unexpected regionalization of the vegetables and especially in the tomatoes. The second was what Italian tomato names represent to us in the states. Ill explain both a bit further. My trip to Italy started like …
Dinner series – Pomodori
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Italy. Live the slow life.
I recently had the opportunity to travel to Italy to collect seeds and talk with many wonderful people about all aspects of the Italian culture and farm family life. This was the ultimate food experience. Staying for 5 weeks, 5 farms, and in the middle was the food Olympics Slow Food's Terra Madre. The experience …
Documenting the seeds
The Portland Seedhouse partners with growers that travel to acquire and document collections of seeds. I will be documenting my travels to Italy and collected seeds from many different places in Italy to start this blog off. We will see where it goes from there. Pictured is the Slow Food Presida Vesuvio Piennolo Cherry Tomato, …
Interesting article on seedbanks
Interesting article on seedbanks all over the globe. Who has the largest collection of veggies? The world's largest public vegetable germplasm collection, the AVRDC Genebank holds more than 59,500 different germplasms from 156 countries. The AVRDC does. Read on...Seed Bank Article.
Hello seed friends!
Lots of special posts about food travels to Italy and the Portland Oregon food scene. The focus is seeds, the networking, culture, sources, breeding, collecting, saving, educating and sharing. Join us.
