Utopian Seed Project
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How to Save Collard Seeds
How To Save Collard Seeds explores seed saving, seed growing and seed heritage in the Southeast USA. Interviews with farmers and growers across the south tell a story of seed heritage deeper than any one variety. Take a deep dive into saving collard seeds to learn both the technical side of saving seeds and the reasons why it's so important.
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Collards heralded from the cold climate of Northern Europe and arrived in New England in the early days of colonization. Originally called coleworts and later known as collards, this food crop was considered inferior to its close relative, the cabbage. When collards made their way to the southeast via the east coast seed t...
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Видео

How to Save Okra Seeds
Просмотров 528Год назад
How To Save Okra explores seed saving, seed growing and seed heritage in the Southeast USA. Interviews with farmers and growers across the south tell a story of seed heritage deeper than any one variety. Take a deep dive into saving okra to learn both the technical side of saving seeds and the reasons why it's so important. This video features Jon Jackson of Comfort Farms and his West African O...
How to Save Squash Seeds
Просмотров 338Год назад
How To Save Squash Seeds explores seed saving, seed growing and seed heritage in the Southeast USA. Interviews with farmers and growers across the south tell a story of seed heritage deeper than any one variety. Take a deep dive into saving squash to learn both the technical side of saving seeds and the reasons why it's so important. Cucurbita spp. represents five domesticated edible squash spe...
How to Propagate Sweet Potatoes
Просмотров 894Год назад
How To Propagate Sweet Potatoes explores on farm propagation of sweet potato slips and making selections for regional adaptation. Interviews with farmers and growers across the south tell a story of seed heritage deeper than any one variety. Take a deep dive into propagating sweet potato slips to learn both the technical side of saving seeds and the reasons why it's so important. Ipomea batatas...
How to Save Corn Seed
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.Год назад
IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO EXPLICITLY STATE THE FOLLOWING: Corn (Zea mays) has an extremely long history in the Americas and is culturally and spiritually significant to native and indigenous communities. The astounding diversity of corn that exists is thanks to thousands of years of seed keeping and stewardship. The very recent history of colonization and European invasion and oppression has ca...
Why Saving Seeds Matters
Просмотров 252Год назад
This is the final episode of our Southeast Seed video series and concludes with the message that regional seed saving and seed growing is as important today as it ever was, in fact it's maybe more important that you claim seed sovereignty in times of global unrest and climate change. In 2021 The Utopian Seed Project and Communal Studios received a grant from Southern SARE to create a Southeast ...
How to Save Southern Peas
Просмотров 317Год назад
How To Save Southern Peas explores seed saving, seed growing and seed heritage in the Southeast USA. Interviews with farmers and growers across the south tell a story of seed heritage deeper than any one variety. Take a deep dive into saving southern peas to learn both the technical side of saving seeds and the reasons why it's so important. Botanists have placed the Southern Pea’s genetic home...
Southeast Seed - A Trailer
Просмотров 831Год назад
Southeast Seed: this video series focuses on six southern crops, using interview footage from 30 farmers across 12 states to produce an eight episode series about growing seeds in the Southeast. The series is both a practical guide to saving seeds and a deeper exploration into seeds, heritage and ethics. This project was funded by Southern SARE. Subscribe to this channel! Learn more at seseed.o...
How to Save Seed for 6 Important Crops
Просмотров 628Год назад
This short introduction to the Southeast Seed video series introduces some of the interviewees and the crops that we'll explore throughout the video series. Get inspired and learn how to grow and save seed in the Southeast. In 2021 The Utopian Seed Project and Communal Studios received a grant from Southern SARE to create a Southeast Seed video series. The project traveled across 12 states and ...
Ira Wallace and The Heirloom Collard Project
Просмотров 9212 года назад
Ira Wallace of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange shares some of the history and motivation behind The Heirloom Collard Project from Mineral VA (Acorn Community Farm).
Ultracross Collards, Seed Pods are ALMOST Ready - May Update with Ira Wallace
Просмотров 952 года назад
This video is part of the Ultracross Collard Community Seed Selection project. We are committed to providing education support and resources to help you be successful in helping us with growing your collards and saving seeds! Ira and Chris talk about collards in May/June, when they have already flowered and the seed pods are getting good and plump. Often it can take just a few more weeks to get...
Ultracross Collards - January Update with Ira Wallace
Просмотров 1602 года назад
This video is part of the Ultracross Collard Community Seed Selection project. We are committed to providing education support and resources to help you be successful in helping us with growing your collards and saving seeds! Ira and Chris talk about January collards, eating and growing collards, some ideas around plant selection, and what to expect as spring spurs new growth for your surviving...
Whidby White Okra - Selecting Dried Pods and Mature Seeds
Просмотров 4012 года назад
This video is part of the Sow True Seed sponsored Whidby White Okra Community Seed Selection project. We are committed to providing education support and resources to help you be successful in helping us with this project! This video covers the correct time to harvest your pods to ensure that the seeds are mature for planting the following year. It's important that the seeds are dried and dark ...
Ultracross Collards in Florida with Melissa Desa - A Community Seed Selection Project
Просмотров 1142 года назад
This video is part of the Ultracross Collard Community Seed Selection project. We are committed to providing educational support and resources to help you be successful with growing your collards and saving seeds! Working Food, based in Gainesville Florida, are distributing seeds and taking part in this project. We're excited to reach out to a more southern community and speak to co-founder, Me...
Exploring the Okra Forest!
Просмотров 3132 года назад
Exploring the Okra Forest!
Welcome to Ultracross Collards - A Community Seed Selection Project
Просмотров 3543 года назад
Welcome to Ultracross Collards - A Community Seed Selection Project
Whidby White Okra - Final Selection and August Bud Bagging
Просмотров 2143 года назад
Whidby White Okra - Final Selection and August Bud Bagging
Whidby White Okra - July Pod Selections
Просмотров 1553 года назад
Whidby White Okra - July Pod Selections
Whidby White Okra - July Pod Production and Color Spectrum Chart
Просмотров 2063 года назад
Whidby White Okra - July Pod Production and Color Spectrum Chart
Whidby White Okra - June Field Transplant Update
Просмотров 843 года назад
Whidby White Okra - June Field Transplant Update
Whidby White Okra - May Seeding Update
Просмотров 1233 года назад
Whidby White Okra - May Seeding Update
Whidby White Okra - Germination and Seeding
Просмотров 1743 года назад
Whidby White Okra - Germination and Seeding
Whidby White Okra - What's in the Community Seed Selection Kit?
Просмотров 3513 года назад
Whidby White Okra - What's in the Community Seed Selection Kit?
In The Field: Collard Cross Pollination
Просмотров 1733 года назад
In The Field: Collard Cross Pollination
Experimental Farm Walk Through - Oct 16 2020
Просмотров 1173 года назад
Experimental Farm Walk Through - Oct 16 2020
Plant Breeder Profile: Edmund Frost (2018 Tony Kleese Awardee)
Просмотров 2753 года назад
Plant Breeder Profile: Edmund Frost (2018 Tony Kleese Awardee)
Homemade Seed Winnower - Test I - Sunflower Seeds
Просмотров 10 тыс.4 года назад
Homemade Seed Winnower - Test I - Sunflower Seeds
Preventing Cross Pollination in Okra Flowers for Seed Saving
Просмотров 4,3 тыс.4 года назад
Preventing Cross Pollination in Okra Flowers for Seed Saving
Introducing Bambara Groundnut with Michael Carter (a Utopian Seed Project Meet-the-Plant series)
Просмотров 5 тыс.4 года назад
Introducing Bambara Groundnut with Michael Carter (a Utopian Seed Project Meet-the-Plant series)
How to Make Sweet Potato Leaf Pesto (Recipe)
Просмотров 9794 года назад
How to Make Sweet Potato Leaf Pesto (Recipe)

Комментарии

  • @daniellecummings7524
    @daniellecummings7524 16 часов назад

    I'm reading a book written in 1950 called "Little Britches" and his father made a winnower. I didn't know what it was and found your page. Thank you for showing it to me. Now, it makes sense.

  • @kylamackay3079
    @kylamackay3079 День назад

    That’s awesome.

  • @JAsisterti
    @JAsisterti 16 дней назад

    Lol- This is all kinds of awesomeness 🤩🤩😎

  • @kieranlerch1256
    @kieranlerch1256 17 дней назад

    You might have included something about how to save corn seed in this video titled "How To Save Corn Seed"

  • @shirleyyoungblood1763
    @shirleyyoungblood1763 25 дней назад

    I just got into saving organic seed from the food I’ve bought from a local organic farmer. It’s so important more people learn how to save seed and grow their own food. Our food sources are being wiped out and now the food in the grocery store is no longer real and has no nutritional value. Glad I found this channel

  • @ManicBeastBoise
    @ManicBeastBoise Месяц назад

    Ugh.

  • @user-bb8kt7gf8s
    @user-bb8kt7gf8s 2 месяца назад

    Oh boy those seed does look so nice when you open the pod from early as it turn a little brown

  • @fredrickvanolphen3299
    @fredrickvanolphen3299 2 месяца назад

    Thanks so much for sharing! ❤️🙏❤️ This is an absolute must given the weevil invested garbage that Pennington is passing off as quality wild bird seed: I would suggest returning the 80% weevil munched.

  • @fredrickvanolphen3299
    @fredrickvanolphen3299 2 месяца назад

    Thanks so much for sharing! ❤️🙏❤️ I hope you know that 'climate change' is an excuse to cover up the fact that we're in a twin sun system and the geoengineered skies are to disguise the fact.

  • @milkrecu
    @milkrecu 3 месяца назад

    Fun and creative project! How has it gone these last two years? What’s a “stuffing okra”?

  • @vetadanielle5206
    @vetadanielle5206 4 месяца назад

    Thank u for the video! How can I get seeds to try and grow my own? I see so many similar names but not sure which to purchase

  • @C3Voyage
    @C3Voyage 4 месяца назад

    Thanks for the video. When you bagged the flower, it was facing skyward. The stigma is on the top. If there's no pollinator, how did the pollen get from below the stigma up to it to pollinate it? Did you take the bag off and hand pollinate after it opened (day or 2 later)?

  • @sandralee3990
    @sandralee3990 5 месяцев назад

    Awesome knowledge from so many. Great to watch them do their magic.

  • @shalomtoday
    @shalomtoday 5 месяцев назад

    👍

  • @morningsunhomesteaders5466
    @morningsunhomesteaders5466 6 месяцев назад

    I am delighted to have found your channel I am looking forward to learning more about your projects.😊

  • @saileshram7610
    @saileshram7610 7 месяцев назад

    Emily Fans😂

  • @mariondavisjr.5791
    @mariondavisjr.5791 8 месяцев назад

    Great idea! Thank you!

  • @chandimasenadheera4245
    @chandimasenadheera4245 8 месяцев назад

    I want to more information and please help me.

  • @1HorseOpenSlay
    @1HorseOpenSlay 11 месяцев назад

    I got some from Baker Creek last year! It's really really amazing turquoise corn 💙

  • @EGYA3MU
    @EGYA3MU Год назад

    Amazon bro

  • @camperjack2620
    @camperjack2620 Год назад

    High quality. I liked your explanation; it was very clear.

  • @chozen_1309
    @chozen_1309 Год назад

    Amazing!! Keep up the great work !! Our world depends on stuff like this!!!! Drank some BamNut milk and got me interested in all this 👏

  • @ianepicearth
    @ianepicearth Год назад

    Wow, that Motherland Okra is amazing- i'd LOVE some seeds! Another great, informative video folks!

  • @LGnLA
    @LGnLA Год назад

  • @branchingtraditions9220
    @branchingtraditions9220 Год назад

    Will be attempting to grow a day neutral variety in NC to diversify our annual cover crops.

  • @caroldurusau2866
    @caroldurusau2866 Год назад

    Where can you get those bags?

  • @rawmilkmike
    @rawmilkmike Год назад

    I love gardening. I like saving seeds. I would like to be able to grow the corn I ate as a child. It has not been available in the store all of my adult life. I'm 68 now. So that's fifty years of these super sweet tasteless hybrids. I do take issue with people calling any plant a food. Yes, we can eat them, but we can't live on them. For our ancestors, they could have been useful in the fall to put on fat for the winter. But humans don't need to eat plants, and we are much healthier when we don't. It's companies like Kellogg's and Coca-Cola who push this ridiculous plant based diet narrative. A vegan diet wasn't even possible fifty years ago. And it's still extremely unhealthy. A vegetarian diet is possible as long as you find some animal source to get your vitamins and minerals. A person can live on beef or fish or dairy. We can't live on beans and rice. The most sustainable food on Earth is probably beef or lamb. We can live on goats and chicken. Or fish if you're near a good water source. But we need grazing animals to sustain the planet. Without sufficient grazing animals, we are turning the planet into a desert. And if you're worried about carbon, cows are the answer. Almonds are contributing to the drought in California. The transportation of exotic fruits and vegetables uses fossil fuels. Beef and dairy can be produced anywhere and within close proximity to the population. Most of the planet can only sustain animal agriculture.

  • @OffGridInvestor
    @OffGridInvestor Год назад

    I got a vacuum cleaner about 10 years ago for AU$100 that had a slide knob on the top that changed the engine speed hence changing the suction level. In this scenario you would save power instead of just having a flap at the back.

  • @annwurden1126
    @annwurden1126 Год назад

    So fun! Sharing with our garden group. Keep up the important work!

  • @CW-nk2vd
    @CW-nk2vd Год назад

    To whom it may concern: I am a community gardening volunteer in Dayton, Ohio, and I started an Urban Vegetable Farm on North Main Street in 2015. Would like to purchase some of your seeds. I am interested in getting some heirloom seeds (particularly Yard-long Beans, Mustard Greens, Collard Greens, Tomatoes, Peppers, Cucumbers, Corn, Sweet Potato Slips, etc.). Respectfully, Curtis Watson

    • @UtopianSeedProject
      @UtopianSeedProject Год назад

      Hey Curtis, we don't sell seeds, but Southern Exposure Seed Exchange (Ira Wallace's organization) does. You can easily find them online.

    • @CW-nk2vd
      @CW-nk2vd Год назад

      @@UtopianSeedProject Thanks you for your feedback information.

  • @sillyyetsuccinct
    @sillyyetsuccinct Год назад

    What a lovely new series!

  • @star_pear9433
    @star_pear9433 Год назад

    I came from your tik tok and love to see the longer videos!!!

  • @lazyandineptprdtions
    @lazyandineptprdtions Год назад

    I love okra! It's so easy to save seeds from okra - everyone should be doing it.

  • @FrannysFarm
    @FrannysFarm Год назад

    I love love love this

  • @barbarakrecic
    @barbarakrecic Год назад

    THANK YOU! Neighbor gave me the plant. It was native to his home in China. I only knew it was called Buddah's Paw and had no idea really what it was until now. How lucky am I? He told me to put the fruit in a brown paper bag and keep it until next spring. It feeds itself and starts to vine. He said keep it in the bag or it will be hard to control. Can't wait!

  • @geraldinenewton1627
    @geraldinenewton1627 2 года назад

    I participated in the 2021 ultracross project. I grew the collards in August of 2021 and had an abundance for Thanksgivings and also for Christmas. They came back in the spring of 2022. Each time they were so delicious. I lost them to beetles in the summer of this year but plan to purchase them for 2023. Thanks for a great mixture of collards. I loved the purple collards best. Just wish I knew the name of each collard. Thank you for some delicious greens! 😀😀

  • @williamwilliams7706
    @williamwilliams7706 2 года назад

    Emily is a great helper. Watched a few of these DIY winnower videos now and yours is the best.

  • @kilejo4779
    @kilejo4779 2 года назад

    What's the address to buy some to plant? Is it too late to plant in July in North Carolina?

    • @UtopianSeedProject
      @UtopianSeedProject 2 года назад

      Truelove Seeds sells Bambara beans but it's too late to pant in NC - get an early start next year!

  • @jrscott5827
    @jrscott5827 2 года назад

    SHALOM EXCELLENT WORK..

  • @jrscott5827
    @jrscott5827 2 года назад

    shalom THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK..I ALSO SAVE SEED.IN ITHACA NY..ZONE 5..IM PUTTING A SEED PACKET TOGETHER FOR FREEDOM GEORGIA..A NEW DEVELOPMENT YOUR WORK IS SO IMPORTANT..I DID NOT FOR GET ..IN BISHOPSVILLE MARYLAND ..SEED SAVER WHO PASSED AWAY..CANT REMEMBER HIS NAME HE GREW SEED FOR DEEP SEED DIVERSITY...BACK IN THE EARLY 90S..OK ILL LET YOU GO FOR NOW I WILL FIND HIS NAME.SHALOM

  • @JuanLopez-li2hi
    @JuanLopez-li2hi 2 года назад

    Hi can tell me where can I get this seed cleaner do you sell it?

    • @UtopianSeedProject
      @UtopianSeedProject 2 года назад

      There is an open-source design to build one! www.realseeds.co.uk/seedcleaner.html

    • @OffGridInvestor
      @OffGridInvestor Год назад

      It's very easy to make yourself. The other version is a fan and a bit of metal like a half tube that the fan sits slightly inside. The tube is on an angle of about 30 degrees and the junk blows out the top end and the bottom end you have a bucket under and get your good seed in.

  • @GeorgeBrabant
    @GeorgeBrabant 2 года назад

    Emily put a big smile on my face. I love it. Lets talk pro's/con's of this(like adding a chaff chamber...)

  • @jerryjackson9481
    @jerryjackson9481 2 года назад

    I planted the Ultracross blend alongside 3 other collard types, one of which was Alabama Blue. We had a lot of blue and purple along with greens. We live in northern Alabama and our coldest temperature dips were in the high teens, and those were brief. We also saw wild swings in temperatures during short time spans. I will concentrate my seed saving on the blues and purples. As far as cooking, I have combined ideas from several recipes in Deborah Madison's vegetarian cookbook. I cook diced onion and garlic in ghee in a heavy braising pan. Meanwhile, I blanch the chiffonaded collards in boiling water for 10 minutes. The collards are added to the onion/garlic pan along with 1/2 cup of the blanching water. I add salt along with a sprinkling of paprika and cumin, then cover and cook at fairly low temperature for around 30 minutes more. They are incredibly tender and delicious, now our favorite green. Apparently collards are used in Indian cuisine, which is I think the basis of this recipe idea. I like Ira's idea of using a broth in place of the cooking water.

  • @bonnettaadeeb8242
    @bonnettaadeeb8242 2 года назад

    Is there one that leans a bit pink?

  • @bonnettaadeeb8242
    @bonnettaadeeb8242 2 года назад

    We cook them West African style with peanut, ground nut. or egusi Adding dried seafood takes it to another level.

  • @gideonoji4013
    @gideonoji4013 2 года назад

    What weather conditions are best for growing bambara in America? Bambara pudding is my favorite food ever

  • @neipeixoto1
    @neipeixoto1 2 года назад

    I am Nei Peixoto, From Brazil, Sowth America. Can you tell me where can I to buy a mixed sample of mambara bean to test here? It seem to be interesting.

    • @UtopianSeedProject
      @UtopianSeedProject 2 года назад

      Mine came from the USDA germplasm - I believe they accept international requests.

    • @neipeixoto1
      @neipeixoto1 2 года назад

      @@UtopianSeedProject Thank you. I will to contact with them.

  • @lannadelarosa
    @lannadelarosa 2 года назад

    Can you show the cross pollination process? If one wants to purposefully cross two okra varieties together?

    • @UtopianSeedProject
      @UtopianSeedProject 2 года назад

      I recorded this process last year and will put a video together about it ASAP.

  • @jimreynolds9084
    @jimreynolds9084 2 года назад

    Is there anyplace one could go to purchase Whidby White okra seeds?

    • @UtopianSeedProject
      @UtopianSeedProject 2 года назад

      Whidby White is not currently available for purchase anywhere, but once our selection project is complete it'll likely be offered through a seed company. Are you interested in growing some?

    • @jimreynolds9084
      @jimreynolds9084 2 года назад

      @@UtopianSeedProject Yes, I'm very interested in growing Whidby White. Thanks

    • @UtopianSeedProject
      @UtopianSeedProject 2 года назад

      @@jimreynolds9084 I should have enough seeds to share. Email me at chris@utopianseed.org

  • @ananthinachimuthu4664
    @ananthinachimuthu4664 2 года назад

    Is this done early in the morning?

    • @UtopianSeedProject
      @UtopianSeedProject 2 года назад

      It doesn't need to be done early unless you are bagging buds on the day they'll actually open?