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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
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  • Subject: [Market-farming] Cornell Univ. Vegetable Variety Rating Site
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:04:47 -0500


Hi,

Look what I just found (serendipity!):

http://cce.cornell.edu/veg/index.php

It is not necessary that you live in NY State to
participate.


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>From their 'About' page:
http://cce.cornell.edu/veg/about.php

About Vegetable Variety Citizen Science

What varieties will grow best in my garden? No doubt
gardeners have been asking their fellow gardeners this
question for centuries.

Today's gardeners ask the same question. But now this
website provides an avenue for gardeners to share their
knowledge with a much wider community.

The concept is simple: Gardeners visit this site and report
what varieties perform well - and not so well - in their
gardens. Other gardeners visit to view the variety ratings
and read the reviews to decide which might work well for
them.

The Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners citizen science
project also provides an opportunity for researchers to
involve knowledgeable and motivated citizens in meaningful
scientific research. Research on the performance of
vegetable varieties is often limited to commercial
production for many reasons. Home gardens may be overlooked,
in part, because visiting thousands of home gardens to
collect data would be an overwhelming task.

Asking gardeners to partner with researchers by collecting
and sharing their own observations via the web could prove
to be a winning combination for all. With a multitude of
gardener observations at their finger tips, researchers can
gain new insight into the performance of vegetable varieties
under a wide range of conditions and practices, and
ultimately provide more insight into which varieties perform
best. At the same time, gardeners can get advice from a
larger community of gardeners to help decide which varieties
to try in their own garden.

Gardeners - young, old, beginners, experts - join the
research team today.

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Pat
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  • [Market-farming] Cornell Univ. Vegetable Variety Rating Site, Pat Meadows, 12/22/2004

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