Nate Kleinman presents this full day workshop addressing climate change on the farm and in the garden, through the fostering of native and resilient plants, grassroots plant breeding, citizen research, and seed saving. Kleinman founded the Experimental Farm Network to promote a variety of exciting plant exploration projects. He teaches agro-ecology techniques, how to utilize germ-plasm resources and how to access free seeds and find rare plants. His work champions what he calls “a citizen-science model for developing staple crops.” With the Experimental Farm Network, he is evolving techniques for variety development and putting them into the hands of laypeople. “Anyone can do it,” he says, “and regular people ought to be doing it.
VIDEO: Farming to Fight Climate Change with Nate Kleinman
Nate Kleinman presents this full day workshop addressing climate change on the farm and in the garden, through the fostering of native and resilient plants, grassroots plant breeding, citizen research, and seed saving. Kleinman founded the Experimental Farm Network to promote a variety of exciting plant exploration projects. He teaches agro-ecology techniques, how to utilize germ-plasm resources and how to access free seeds and find rare plants. His work champions what he calls “a citizen-science model for developing staple crops.” With the Experimental Farm Network, he is evolving techniques for variety development and putting them into the hands of laypeople. “Anyone can do it,” he says, “and regular people ought to be doing it.
This was an excellent presentation. Learned a lot and will probably implement some of these ideas and grow some of these crops moving forward. Thanks, Living Web Farms for sharing and Nate for speaking!
great food for thought
I am not an experienced plant breeder so forgive the ignorance, Nate mentions that with the Illinois bundleflower he is experimenting with the northern-most varieties but if we are headed to a warmer/drought ridden climate wouldn't we want to work with wild varieties already found in similar climates?