[MGSA-L] [External] Re: ASIA MINOR - Agricultural heritage

Mon Mar 28 07:36:21 PDT 2022

And Peliti <https://peliti.gr/>  and other seed bank initiatives in Greece.

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Thanks for the reference June.

For those interested in seed saving and Greek agricultural heritage, you might be interested in my wife's article in the journal Gastronomica. Still very relevant ten years on:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/gfc.2012.11.4.66

James  

On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 8:36 PM June Samaras <june.samaras at gmail.com <mailto:june.samaras at gmail.com> > wrote:

A quote from an interesting article linked below

"By preserving these seeds, each uniquely suited to its particular Turkish ecosystem, and educating young people, she is protecting the cultural heritage of Turkey''

NOTE THAT SHE IS ALSO PRESERVING THE HERITAGE OF THE GREEK COMMUNITIES WHO CULTIVATED ASIA  MINOR FOR GENERATIONS.

This led to me to discover these similar efforts in Greece to create seed banks to preserve old agricultural varieties.

https://www.google.com/search?q=HERITAGE+SEED+PRESERVATION+GREECE <https://www.google.com/search?q=HERITAGE+SEED+PRESERVATION+GREECE&rlz=1C1NHXL_enCA811CA811&oq=HERITAGE+SEED+PRESERVATION+GREECE&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i546l2.14435j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8> &rlz=1C1NHXL_enCA811CA811&oq=HERITAGE+SEED+PRESERVATION+GREECE&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i546l2.14435j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

June S

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Stockpiling—and Sharing—Turkey’s Heritage Seeds

You don’t save agricultural traditions without swapping some seeds.
BY KATIE NADWORNY
MARCH 18, 2022

 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/unique-seeds-turkey?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter <https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/unique-seeds-turkey?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f995a30b4e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_03_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-f995a30b4e-71014525&mc_cid=f995a30b4e&mc_eid=6133406903> &utm_campaign=f995a30b4e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_03_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-f995a30b4e-71014525&mc_cid=f995a30b4e&mc_eid=6133406903

NARDANE KUŞÇU TRAMPS THROUGH THE green fields at Narköy, her organic farm and eco-property, leading the way to a small, climate-controlled room behind a greenhouse. Inside, sliding plastic containers are meticulously labeled: pazı, lahana, pembe köy domates, karpuz. This isn’t a normal storage space. Each small container holds a selection of Turkish heritage seeds, carefully selected and stored by Kuşçu herself. At Narköy, in the Western Black Sea region, she has more than 1,200 varieties of them—one of the largest collections of heritage seeds in Turkey, if not the largest.

Nardane Kuşçu’s passion is the ecological importance of Turkish seeds, which are under threat from changing agricultural practices, industrial seeds, and climate changeBy preserving these seeds, each uniquely suited t, she is protecting the cultural heritage of Turkey, o its particular Turkish ecosystem, and educating young peopleas well. l as planting the seeds of a more sustainable way of living.

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