Students are still on holidays, so nobody here to nibble around the garden, but all our veggie beds are full of vegetables.
Of course some of the organic vegetables are still growing, waiting for the kitchen ladies to prepare them when the children come back, but most of them are already quite ready.
Do you know why we’ve been planting so many to harvest in this period?
Because our goal with these veggies, will be to save seeds !
Saving seeds is an act of politics. By saving seeds we aims to be more self-sufficient, and also to work with nature by selecting the seeds that could work best in our environment.
Vandana Shiva, philosopher and physicist, explains “[saving seeds] is a convergence of human intelligence and nature’s intelligence.” Humans have been selecting seeds for thousands of years, to choose that would fit best and their needs (productivity, taste, appearance, etc.) and their environment (cliimate, soil, tolerance to pest, disease, drought, floods, etc.). To make it short and a tiny philosophical: “The seed in its essence is all of the past evolution of the Earth, the evolution of human history, and the potential for future evolution. The seed is the embodiment of culture because culture shaped the seed with careful selection—women picked the best, diversified. So from one grass you get 200,000 rices.” (Vandana Shiva).
This is why we are basically waiting for all these perfectly beautiful and ready vegetables, to grow too big, loose their potential taste, make flowers, then produce seeds that we will harvest, dry and keep in our seed bank.
Sounds good ?
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One week ago, we had cut the “branches” that our salads had grown, and we’ve let it dry in full sun for about a week.
With Rosita and Petronila, Chumil’s daughters, we have been gently removing the seeds from their pods, and preciously kept them in a little bag.
From one salad plant, we collected hundreds of seeds ! This never stops to amaze me ! As a way to survive, nature has known when to be abundant in order to keep its resilience.
However, we are no professional seed savers. Well, not yet ! But from this experience, a question arises: Are our seeds of good quality ? Did we select the right plants ? Was it the right time to harvest the seeds ? Will they germinate ?
To figure this out, we decided to make a little experiment. We sow few of seeds in a carton of egg, watered them and they are now chilling in the sun in our greenhouse. Just need to wait to calculate the germination rate.
Stay tuned, and thank you for your help Rosita and Petronila !
