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Variety Trials

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Results are in for the 2024 Tomato Variety Trial!

Biodiversity, Farming, Local Food, Saving Seeds, Southern Heritage Seed Collective, Variety TrialsBy Melissa DeSaJuly 31, 2024

We grew 15 new (to us) varieties this year in our seed trial gardens at GROW HUB and at four other garden locations. Here are the results! Thank you to Meg from Gainesville Giving Garden, Tim, Martha and Marian for contributing their time and garden space to these experimental varieties. View the results of the…

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The Evvy Tomato Project

Biodiversity, Community Impact, Farming, Local Food, Saving Seeds, Southern Heritage Seed Collective, Variety TrialsBy Melissa DeSaApril 24, 2023

How the Seed Was Planted In 2015 we had an ambitious idea: what would happen if we tried to combine our beloved Everglades currant tomato with a dwarf variety, Tanunda Red? This is a very wide cross of tomato types and traits! Everglades is a different species altogether (Solanum pimpinellifolium) and is the wild ancestor…

Pop-Up Pumpkin Tasting

Biodiversity, Community Impact, Events, Local Food, Variety TrialsBy Melissa DeSaOctober 27, 2019

Looking back on our Pop-Up Pumpkin Tasting, we already miss it so much! On October 19th, sampling out delicious pumpkin recipes from our local entrepreneurs and seeing the community come together made for an incredible day. We all came together to celebrate the delicious local varieties we have here and see how versatile they could…

Southern Seed School 2019 Recap!

Biodiversity, Community Impact, Local Food, Saving Seeds, Southern Heritage Seed Collective, Variety TrialsBy Melissa DeSaMay 2, 2019

This past weekend, we hosted our 3rd annual Southern Seed School! The last two years, it was “Southern Seed School in a Day”, but there was so much great content to add, we had to make it a two-day long event. Located at the lovely and peaceful Grow Hub where our seed collective is based,…

Fall 2018 Kale Variety Trials

Biodiversity, Southern Heritage Seed Collective, Variety TrialsBy Melissa DeSaDecember 23, 2018

Results are in for our Fall 2018 kale variety trials!

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