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- From: Mike Rock <mikerock AT mhtc.net>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Monsanto owned seeds
- Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:19:27 -0600
I was getting at the fact that a hybrid is from two different parent plants. They cross, someone likes the result, it's tastier, and they then 'select' that hybrid to grow out.
Mike
Don Lareau wrote:
Selection and hybridizing are two very different things that would take too
long to go into here. But that is a wrong use of terms, and is part of the
misunderstanding that prevails in the minds of consumer when it comes to
words like heirlooms, and open pollinated...
Zephyros Farm and Garden
Daphne Yannakakis and Don Lareau
11466 3725 Rd.
Paonia, Co. 81428
970-527-3636
www.zephyrosfarmandgarden.com
dlareau AT tds.net
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[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mike Rock
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 3:10 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Monsanto owned seeds
Good point.... the human race has been hybridizing since it first started cultivating foods. Rather than 'natural selection', we, the human did the selection. 'This one is better than that one'... well, they were cross pollinating back then and 'this one' happened to be a hybrid. It bred true for them and then the bees threw an outcross at them and we had another hybrid...
and on and on.... just because 'man' rather than the honey bee or wind or frog spit made the cross is not material.
my 2 cents.
Aaron Brower wrote:
I always maintain a selection of heirlooms but there are manyconsiderations
besides taste: disease resistance, storability, heat, cold, wet, and dry resistance, to name only a few. I grow multiple varieties of as many vegetables as possible, realizing thethateach has its place and may thrive or suffer depending on variousconditions.
Maintaining heirloom varieties is of great importance but improving vegetable varieties is also important. Around this farm we call heirlooms "unimproved," meant as a humorous moniker to lessen the hysteria sometimes
associated with them.heirloom
Also, I cant say I know much about the specific nutrition content of
vs. hybrid but I imagine it is much more complicated than simply statingthat
heirlooms are more nutritious, just as it is not true that heirlooms arealways
more tasty. It has more to do with soil health and the timing of wateringsand
harvesting.
Aaron
From: Joe Tittiger <joe AT tittiger.com>
To: Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sat, February 5, 2011 1:26:03 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] Monsanto owned seeds
Heirlooms for the most part is the most nutritious so why would anyone buy
hybrids owned by Monsanto or anyone else?surprised
Don't you grow food mostly for the nutrition and taste? Anyhow I am
to see that it is even an issue with anyone.
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[Market-farming] Monsanto owned seeds,
Joe Tittiger, 02/05/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Monsanto owned seeds,
Aaron Brower, 02/05/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Monsanto owned seeds,
Mike Rock, 02/05/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Monsanto owned seeds,
Don Lareau, 02/05/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Monsanto owned seeds, Mike Rock, 02/05/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Monsanto owned seeds,
Don Lareau, 02/05/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Monsanto owned seeds, Wiediger, Alison, 02/05/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Monsanto owned seeds,
Mike Rock, 02/05/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Monsanto owned seeds, Road's End Farm, 02/05/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Monsanto owned seeds,
Aaron Brower, 02/05/2011
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