By Ana C. Galvis Martinez
Dear Organic Seed Alliance community,
The time goes fast, and now we are in Winter! I hope all of you are doing very well.
For this delivery of our newsletter I want to share with all of you that on December 4th, 2024, we gathered at WSU Port Hadlock classroom to celebrate life and listen to information about germplasm adapted for the environment of the Olympic Peninsula. In the meet up we had the opportunity to listen to our former co-director of Education and Research, Dr. Micaela Colley, and the WSU researcher Dr. Laurel Moulton about projects that they have been working on. We also had the opportunity to listen to our Executive Director, Laurajean Lewis, who shared some updates about the seed center. People shared food potluck style, and also we had La Cocina delicious tortilla and tacos, it was a very sweet time.
Here is a video of Micaela’s presentation, really a very detailed recount of different plant breeding projects that she was part of during the 20 years she worked for the Organic Seed Alliance. It was amazing to see all that information together, I hope you have the time to watch it and you enjoy it!
Full version of Micaela’s presentation
In case you want to watch it in smaller doses here shorter clips for each project. Best wishes for next year, cheers!
Abundant Life Spinach Project
Nash’s Red Kale
Chicos Corn
Nash’s buckwheat “Evolutionary breeding population”
NOVIC 3 (corn tortilla trials)
Some Jared Zystro led programs: “Honey Badger Sweet Corn” Tomato Organic “Management Improvement” “Humboldt Quinoa”
Dark Star Zucchini
Magenta Chard
Multispecies selection trial for winter hardiness (Chicory and Purple Sprout Broccoli)
NOVIC (carrots, cabbage “Purple OP cabbage”, broccoli and sweet corn “who gets kissed” “Olympic Sweet corn”)
Carrot Improvement for Organic Agriculture “Orange strain”, “Novel colored carrots” “Fantasia”
