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  • The community seed bank (CSB) in Harbu which was built and sponsored by Ethio Organic Seed Action (EOSA) to help farmers regain traditional varieties of crops and have a safety net against loss of crops in times of drought and crop failure. <br />
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Members of the seed bank contribute seeds and can use the seeds for their crops. Included in the seed bank is a germplasm reserve, where seeds are stored in jars as a further means of preserving greater crop diversity. <br />
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Seen in the germplasm reserve are CSB members and farmers Ansha Seid (turquoise scarf) and Seid Shiferan (tan scarf) looking at the jars of seeds.
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  • The Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank in Ejere, Ethiopia was built by Ethio Organic Seed Action to help farmers regain traditional local varieties of grain that are better adapted to their location. Seed bank members donate seeds and in turn get seeds from the seed bank. Regassa Feyissa with EOSA is one of the founders and promoters of the seed bank and helps the local farmers. <br />
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The germplasm reserve saves a wide variety of crops that may not be grown every year and acts as a safety net in case of crop failure. <br />
<br />
Farmers seen in the seed bank with Regassa are Taddesse Retta, chair of the Farmer Conservator Association and Eshetu Badada, the treasurer.
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  • The Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank in Ejere, Ethiopia was built by Ethio Organic Seed Action to help farmers regain traditional local varieties of grain that are better adapted to their location. Seed bank members donate seeds and in turn get seeds from the seed bank. Regassa Feyissa with EOSA is one of the founders and promoters of the seed bank and helps the local farmers. <br />
<br />
The germplasm reserve saves a wide variety of crops that may not be grown every year and acts as a safety net in case of crop failure. <br />
<br />
Farmers seen in the seed bank with Regassa are Taddesse Retta, chair of the Farmer Conservator Association and Eshetu Badada, the treasurer.
    MM7753_20101030_42416.jpg
  • Jamal Mohammed and his wife Tayitis Mohammed keep a personal seed bank in their house in the Fontanina area south of Kombulcha, Ethiopia. These seeds are their insurance against crop failure so that they can plant again should disaster strike. <br />
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Having gone through the famine of 1984 they changed their farming methods, bringing back more of the tradtional varieties, but also holding on to larger reserves of food before selling their crops for cash.
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  • The Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank in Ejere, Ethiopia was built by Ethio Organic Seed Action to help farmers regain traditional local varieties of grain that are better adapted to their location. Seed bank members donate seeds and in turn get seeds from the seed bank. Regassa Feyissa with EOSA is one of the founders and promoters of the seed bank and helps the local farmers. <br />
<br />
The germplasm reserve saves a wide variety of crops that may not be grown every year and acts as a safety net in case of crop failure. <br />
<br />
Farmers seen in the seed bank with Regassa are Taddesse Retta, chair of the Farmer Conservator Association and Eshetu Badada, the treasurer.
    MM7753_20101030_42411.jpg
  • The National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Ft. Collins, Colorado is a major USDA facility for the preservation of crop biodiversity. Besides preserving seeds and crop material, including cryogenic sorage, they also test for viability and maintain a massive cold storage vault.<br />
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Contact:
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  • The National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Ft. Collins, Colorado is a major USDA facility for the preservation of crop biodiversity. Besides preserving seeds and crop material, including cryogenic sorage, they also test for viability and maintain a massive cold storage vault.<br />
<br />
Contact:
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  • Local wheat varieties in test plants at the Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank in Ejere, Ethiopia. It was built by Ethio Organic Seed Action to help farmers regain traditional local varieties of grain that are better adapted to their location. Seed bank members donate seeds and in turn get seeds from the seed bank. Regassa Feyissa with EOSA is one of the founders and promoters of the seed bank and helps the local farmers. <br />
<br />
The big variety of wheat varieties are important to maintaining biodiversity in the crop and because of how different varieties respond to varying climate and weather patterns from year to year. <br />
<br />
Farmers seen in the seed bank with Regassa include Taddesse Retta, chair of the Farmer Conservator Association and Eshetu Badada, the treasurer.
    MM7753_20101030_42091.jpg
  • Seed Savers Exchange is one of the oldest and largest heirloom seed conservation organizations in the world. <br />
Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. The non-profit organization of gardeners is dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
    MM7753_20100903_34175.jpg
  • Seed Savers Exchange is one of the oldest and largest heirloom seed conservation organizations in the world. <br />
Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. The non-profit organization of gardeners is dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
    MM7753_20100903_34370.jpg
  • Cary Fowler at the Svalbard Global Seed Bank, also known as the "Doomsday" seed bank, in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.  Dug into the frozen mountainside above the town, the seedbank is a last chance repository for millions of seeds, that could be used to restore agriculture should a disaster wipe out many of the plants we depend upon for food.
    MM7753_20100312_0825.jpg
  • Seed Savers Exchange is one of the oldest and largest heirloom seed conservation organizations in the world. <br />
Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. The non-profit organization of gardeners is dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
    MM7753_20100904_34522.jpg
  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.
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  • Seed Savers Exchange is one of the oldest and largest heirloom seed conservation organizations in the world. <br />
Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. The non-profit organization of gardeners is dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
    MM7753_20100904_34552.jpg
  • Cary Fowler at the Svalbard Global Seed Bank, also known as the "Doomsday" seed bank, in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.  Dug into the frozen mountainside above the town, the seedbank is a last chance repository for millions of seeds, that could be used to restore agriculture should a disaster wipe out many of the plants we depend upon for food.
    MM7753_20100312_0788.jpg
  • Carey Fowler at the "Doomsday" seed bank in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.  Dug into the frozen mountainside above the town, the seedbank is a last chance repository for millions of seeds, that could be used to restore agriculture should a disaster wipe out many of the plants we depend upon for food.
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  • The herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens contains thousands of plant samples collected over the last two centuries.<br />
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The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are 121 hectares[1] of gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest London, England.<br />
Kew Gardens originated in the exotic garden at Kew Park formed by Lord Capel John of Tewkesbury. It was enlarged and extended by Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales, the widow of Frederick, Prince of Wales, for whom Sir William Chambers built several garden structures. One of these, the lofty Chinese pagoda built in 1761 still remains. George III enriched the gardens, aided by William Aiton and Sir Joseph Banks. The old Kew Park (by then renamed the White House), was demolished in 1802. The "Dutch House" adjoining was purchased by George III in 1781 as a nursery for the royal children. It is a plain brick structure now known as Kew Palace.
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  • The Svalbard Global Seed Bank, also known as the "Doomsday" seed bank, in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.  Dug into the frozen mountainside above the town, the seedbank is a last chance repository for millions of seeds, that could be used to restore agriculture should a disaster wipe out many of the plants we depend upon for food.
    Svalvard Pan I.jpg
  • Seed Savers Exchange is one of the oldest and largest heirloom seed conservation organizations in the world. <br />
Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. The non-profit organization of gardeners is dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
    MM7753_20100904_35446.jpg
  • Carey Fowler at the "Doomsday" seed bank in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.  Dug into the frozen mountainside above the town, the seedbank is a last chance repository for millions of seeds, that could be used to restore agriculture should a disaster wipe out many of the plants we depend upon for food.
    MM7753_20100311_0585.jpg
  • Carey Fowler at the "Doomsday" seed bank in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.  Dug into the frozen mountainside above the town, the seedbank is a last chance repository for millions of seeds, that could be used to restore agriculture should a disaster wipe out many of the plants we depend upon for food.
    MM7753_20100311_0269.jpg
  • Cary Fowler at the Svalbard Global Seed Bank, also known as the "Doomsday" seed bank, in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.  Dug into the frozen mountainside above the town, the seedbank is a last chance repository for millions of seeds, that could be used to restore agriculture should a disaster wipe out many of the plants we depend upon for food. Giving a tour to a group of Norwegians.
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  • Cary Fowler at the Svalbard Global Seed Bank, also known as the "Doomsday" seed bank, in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.  Dug into the frozen mountainside above the town, the seedbank is a last chance repository for millions of seeds, that could be used to restore agriculture should a disaster wipe out many of the plants we depend upon for food.
    MM7753_20100312_0667.jpg
  • Repatriated potatoes in the warehouse at Pampallacta at the Parque de la Papa near Pisac, Peru.   Varieties shown are being "repatriated" from the seed bank at CIP in Lima, Peru, the international potato center. These varieties were collected from the surrounding area and kept at CIP, and are now being planted and grown by the people living in the potato park.
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  • Seed bank at USDA-ARS North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station in Ames, Iowa.
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  • Carey Fowler at the "Doomsday" seed bank in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.  Dug into the frozen mountainside above the town, the seedbank is a last chance repository for millions of seeds, that could be used to restore agriculture should a disaster wipe out many of the plants we depend upon for food.
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  • Testing for Ug99 wheat stem rust in the field station at Asella, Ethiopia.<br />
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Kulumsa Research Centre, P. O. Box 489, Asella, Ethiopia  Wheat being tested for Ug99 wheat stem rust and other rust diseases at the Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center in Asela, Ethiopia. <br />
<br />
Ug99 is devastating to wheat, leaving the heads with nothing but small, shriveled grain in the otherwise normal looking heads. It was discovered first in Uganda in 1999 and has since been moving east, having recently been found in Yemen.<br />
<br />
The rust is seen as red patches along the stem of the wheat, hence the name.  <br />
<br />
KULUMSA AGRICUTURAL RESEARCH CENTER (KARC) is about 167 km southeast of Addis Ababa. It is located in the Oromiya Regional State in the northeast periphery of the town of Asela, Arsi Zone.
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  • Inside the seed bank rooms at the USDA-ARS North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station in Ames, Iowa.<br />
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Seeds are stored at low temperatures and low humidity to keep the viable for a longer time. The Ames facility focuses on corn, as well as sunflowers and other grains.
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  • Sunflowers being grown out are kept in insect-prooof bags to prevent cross pollination, at the USDA-ARS North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station in Ames, Iowa.<br />
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Seeds must be grown out periodically to keep them viable, one of the issues that makes proper maintenance of a seed bank difficult and expensive.
    MM7753_2010-08-06_31830.jpg
  • Carey Fowler at the "Doomsday" seed bank in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.  Dug into the frozen mountainside above the town, the seedbank is a last chance repository for millions of seeds, that could be used to restore agriculture should a disaster wipe out many of the plants we depend upon for food.
    MM7753_20100311_0524.jpg
  • Carey Fowler at the "Doomsday" seed bank in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.  Dug into the frozen mountainside above the town, the seedbank is a last chance repository for millions of seeds, that could be used to restore agriculture should a disaster wipe out many of the plants we depend upon for food.
    MM7753_20100311_0516.jpg
  • Sunflowers being grown out are kept in insect-prooof cages to prevent cross pollination, at the USDA-ARS North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station in Ames, Iowa.<br />
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Each cage has it's own beehive so that the plants are properly pollinated. Seeds must be grown out periodically to keep them viable, one of the issues that makes proper maintenance of a seed bank difficult and expensive.
    MM7753_2010-08-06_31388.jpg
  • Farmland in southwest Wisconsin near the Mississippi River, south of La Crosse.  Farms surrounded by clouds along the ridges of the rich Loess bluffs along the Mississippi River.
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  • Testing for Ug99 wheat stem rust in the field station at Asella, Ethiopia.<br />
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Kulumsa Research Centre, P. O. Box 489, Asella, Ethiopia  Wheat being tested for Ug99 wheat stem rust and other rust diseases at the Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center in Asela, Ethiopia. <br />
<br />
Ug99 is devastating to wheat, leaving the heads with nothing but small, shriveled grain in the otherwise normal looking heads. It was discovered first in Uganda in 1999 and has since been moving east, having recently been found in Yemen.<br />
<br />
The rust is seen as red patches along the stem of the wheat, hence the name.  <br />
<br />
KULUMSA AGRICUTURAL RESEARCH CENTER (KARC) is about 167 km southeast of Addis Ababa. It is located in the Oromiya Regional State in the northeast periphery of the town of Asela, Arsi Zone.
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  • Packaging seeds for shipment to the Svalbard seed bank at the USDA-ARS North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station in Ames, Iowa.<br />
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These shipments act as a backup in the event that seeds are lost at the primary storage facility.
    MM7753_2010-08-06_32054.jpg
  • The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are 121 hectares[1] of gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest London, England.<br />
Kew Gardens originated in the exotic garden at Kew Park formed by Lord Capel John of Tewkesbury. It was enlarged and extended by Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales, the widow of Frederick, Prince of Wales, for whom Sir William Chambers built several garden structures. One of these, the lofty Chinese pagoda built in 1761 still remains. George III enriched the gardens, aided by William Aiton and Sir Joseph Banks. The old Kew Park (by then renamed the White House), was demolished in 1802. The "Dutch House" adjoining was purchased by George III in 1781 as a nursery for the royal children. It is a plain brick structure now known as Kew Palace.
    MM7753_2010-07-24_12456.jpg
  • Seed Savers Exchange is one of the oldest and largest heirloom seed conservation organizations in the world. <br />
Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. The non-profit organization of gardeners is dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
    MM7753_20100904_34864.jpg
  • The worst erosion on Earth is seen in the deeply gullied hills of the Loess plateau in Shaanxi province of China.  Small fields are all that is left as the erosion whittles away at the land available for crops.
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  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
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Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
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The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals.
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  • Farmers near Lviv, Ukraine grow potatoes  and cabbage, two of the staple crops of small farmers in this rich farming country near the Black Sea.
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  • The worst erosion on Earth is seen in the deeply gullied hills of the Loess plateau in Shaanxi province of China.  Small fields are all that is left as the erosion whittles away at the land available for crops.
    MM6977_071020_24250.jpg
  • Farmers near Lviv, Ukraine grow potatoes  and cabbage, two of the staple crops of small farmers in this rich farming country near the Black Sea.<br />
<br />
Farmers is Olexandra Salo (with cabbage)
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  • Watering crops in greenhouse in Africa
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  • Local wheat varieties in test plants at the Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank in Ejere, Ethiopia. It was built by Ethio Organic Seed Action to help farmers regain traditional local varieties of grain that are better adapted to their location. Seed bank members donate seeds and in turn get seeds from the seed bank. Regassa Feyissa with EOSA is one of the founders and promoters of the seed bank and helps the local farmers. <br />
<br />
The big variety of wheat varieties are important to maintaining biodiversity in the crop and because of how different varieties respond to varying climate and weather patterns from year to year.
    MM7753_20101030_42091.jpg
  • Rassama Camara in his sorghum field in the village of Siby, Mali. Sorghum in is a major crop in this dry land area, and ICRISAT works with farmers to introduce new varieties with various traits that will improve production. Besides eating the grain, the plant material is used of cattle fodder and even to make fences.
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  • Rape crop growing near St. Mawes, Cornwall.
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  • Harvesting and stack oats on the farm of Melaku Yifku in the Seriti Village of the Chacha district north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<br />
<br />
Workers are cutting the oats by hand with sickles, and pile them behind them as they move up the field, singing as they go. Then the bundles are hauled to the stacks where a man on top arranges them so that the grain heads are to the inside of the stack so they will dry and be protected from rain before being threshed. The man on the top of the stack is Nigussu Kissaye.<br />
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Horses are grazing on the new cropped oat ground, foraging for leftover grain and straw.<br />
<br />
In the distant valley are other villages in their typical hilltop positions.
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  • Harvesting and stack oats on the farm of Melaku Yifku in the Seriti Village of the Chacha district north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<br />
<br />
Workers are cutting the oats by hand with sickles, and pile them behind them as they move up the field, singing as they go. Then the bundles are hauled to the stacks where a man on top arranges them so that the grain heads are to the inside of the stack so they will dry and be protected from rain before being threshed. The man on the top of the stack is Nigussu Kissaye.<br />
<br />
Horses are grazing on the new cropped oat ground, foraging for leftover grain and straw.<br />
<br />
In the distant valley are other villages in their typical hilltop positions.
    MM7753_20101103_47348.jpg
  • On the farm of Rhoda Mang'anya in the Dedze District of Malawi. Rhoda has improved her soil, and with it the ability to feed her family, by using a variety of perrenial trees that provide nitrogen to the soil. <br />
For further information contact: <br />
Chris Katema<br />
ckatema@cgiarmw.org<br />
chrisskatema@gmail.com<br />
0999 220075
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  • Threshing rice in the fields of Bali, beating the bundles of freshly cut rice against boards to get the rice out.
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  • Seed Savers Exchange is one of the oldest and largest heirloom seed conservation organizations in the world. <br />
Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. The non-profit organization of gardeners is dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
    MM7753_20100902_33088.jpg
  • Planting onions in India
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  • Harvesting rice in the field around the village of Jogahat, Chunamonhathi, Jessore, Bangladesh.
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  • Rice threshing in the fields of the village of Jogahat, Chunamonhathi, Jessore, Bangladesh.  The men are using a foot powered thresher to beat the rice off the still-wet rice plants. Rice harvested in the field will be carried back to the village where it will be cleaned and dried.
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  • Threshing rice in a field in Bali. This woman is doing second harvest, trying to get the last of the rice from the bundles that have already been threshed by the women in the background. This is essentially charity gleaning, and she can take home (for free) up to 7kg of the rice. About one big bowl, which might feed her for a couple of days. <br />
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Her name is Dadong Angga.
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  • Genevieve Weston in the Weston Antique Apples orchard near New Berllin, Wisconsin.<br />
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Weston's Orchards, the oldest active orchard in Waukesha, were established in 1935 by Harvey and Alice Weston on a site owned by Alice's father, William Marckwardt. By this time the farm already had an orchard and several of its current buildings. For example, its Dutch colonial style barn dates to 1901.<br />
<br />
The family-operated orchards have supplied the public with historic apple varieties for over 60 years. Some of the orchards' trees were planted in the late nineteenth century and significant additional plantings were made during the Great Depression by the orchards current owners. The orchards cover 16 acres with more than 700 trees and over 100 varieties with dates varying from the Calville Blanc d'Hiver (1598), Gravenstien (1600) to the Wolf River (1881) and Pink Pearl (1944). Weston's Orchards work to conserve these antique apple vaieties from extinction. The Old Church apple, for example, is grown solely on their farm.
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  • Wheat field in South Dakota with Ralph Schelske and Sons Harvesting on their own farm in western South Dakota.
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  • Testing for Ug99 wheat stem rust in the field station at Asella, Ethiopia.<br />
<br />
Kulumsa Research Centre, P. O. Box 489, Asella, Ethiopia  Wheat being tested for Ug99 wheat stem rust and other rust diseases at the Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center in Asela, Ethiopia. <br />
<br />
Ug99 is devastating to wheat, leaving the heads with nothing but small, shriveled grain in the otherwise normal looking heads. It was discovered first in Uganda in 1999 and has since been moving east, having recently been found in Yemen.<br />
<br />
The rust is seen as red patches along the stem of the wheat, hence the name.  <br />
<br />
KULUMSA AGRICUTURAL RESEARCH CENTER (KARC) is about 167 km southeast of Addis Ababa. It is located in the Oromiya Regional State in the northeast periphery of the town of Asela, Arsi Zone.
    MM7753_20101029_41501.jpg
  • Spring bubling up next to hay field in the Sandhills of Nebraka. Making haystacks with horses.
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  • Center Pivot Irrigation System buried in sand dunes, New Mexico.
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  • Drew Rivers on Full Belly Farm, California.
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  • Planting onions in India.
    IN-0006 Seeds.jpg
  • Harvesting groundnuts (peanuts) in Siby Mali on the farm of Rassama Camara.<br />
<br />
The women are hauling the bundles of dried out plants to big piles where they sit in the shade and pluck the nuts out.  It is a big social occasion as well as being long, hard, dusty work. <br />
<br />
Mariama Keita with her baby
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  • Milking her cow in the communal village pasture is Nina Yavorina. Her cow is Zozulka. As is the custom here Nina has one cow, and assumes the duties of cowherd for all of the villagers cows in her turn. At noon she would milk her cow out in the pasture.
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  • Potato Harvest in the high Andes of Peru with Benigno Fuero and Juana Panduro Valerio.
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  • Potato Harvest in the high Andes of Peru withSeñora Fausta "Uva" Callupe.<br />
<br />
At Bellavista - Macacha<br />
Kaydee and Micaela Chavez.<br />
Harvesting potatoes and huuchuy.<br />
Plans on keeping ten bags for family consumption. Got 17 bags from that field, then 10 from another, unknown bags from another. And 15 bags total from two lower fields. <br />
Uses chicken and sheep manure (sheep preferred) and also NPK. <br />
Harvesting 60 to 70 varieties from these fields.
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  • Boys eat sorghum stalks put out for the cattle at the house of Jamal Muhammed in the Fontanina area south of Kombulcha, Ethiopia.<br />
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Sorghum is a staple food for people and livestock alike here and the boys like it for the same reason the cows do: it is sweet to chew. Sorghum varieties with tall stalks are favored for the amount of forage they produce.
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  • Seed Savers Exchange is one of the oldest and largest heirloom seed conservation organizations in the world. <br />
Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. The non-profit organization of gardeners is dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds. A beautiful barn.
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  • Famine Memorial, set on Custom House Quay in the Docklands of Dublin, Ireland, memorializes the great loss of life during the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840's. This was the first recognized case of mass starvation because of loss of biodiversity. The memorial, which was established in 1997, consists of several statues of people and a dog from the Potato Famine, designed by Dublin’s local artist, Rowan Gillespie.
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  • In the villages around Keita, Niger villagers and the FAO have combined efforts to restore 36,000 sq. kilometers of land that was ravaged by the droughts of the 70's and 80's.  Most of the work has been done by some 10,000 women of the area, returning much of the land to productivity.In all they have planted 18,000,000 trees.<br />
Mariama Abdouleye and her children (left) Idrissa Abdourahmane and (right) Abdoulaye Aboubakar.<br />
<br />
Her sister is Rabi Aboubakar.
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  • Li Kaixin family harvesting rice near Sheng Cun Village in Yuanyang County, Yunan province, China.  The grain is threshed in the field before bagging to carry out.  The stalks are laid out to dry in the terraces.
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  • Harvesting and stack oats on the farm of Melaku Yifku in the Seriti Village of the Chacha district north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<br />
<br />
Workers are cutting the oats by hand with sickles, and pile them behind them as they move up the field, singing as they go. Then the bundles are hauled to the stacks where a man on top arranges them so that the grain heads are to the inside of the stack so they will dry and be protected from rain before being threshed. The man on the top of the stack is Nigussu Kissaye.
    MM7753_20101103_47348.jpg
  • Wheat harvest in northern Montana.
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  • Trampeling wheat for the winnowing process in Ethiopia. The oxen help break down the wheat stalks and loosen the grain in the heads to make the winnowing easier.
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  • Threshing and winnowing wheat in Ethiopia. The grain is thrown in the air to let the wind blow away the chaff, letting the grain fall to the ground.
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  • Harvesting rice in the field around the village of Jogahat, Chunamonhathi, Jessore, Bangladesh.
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  • Planting rice in Bali, amid the flooded rice paddy where the rice is pulled from a bundle and stuck into the mud. Seen here is Pak Kompiang.
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  • Winnowing rice in the rice paddies among the coconut trees in Luwus village of Bali. The woman is Bu Edi and she was getting one bag of rice (70kg) per each died of one eco size. (100 ecos to the hectare,)
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  • Testing for Ug99 wheat stem rust in the field station at Asella, Ethiopia.<br />
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Kulumsa Research Centre, P. O. Box 489, Asella, Ethiopia  Wheat being tested for Ug99 wheat stem rust and other rust diseases at the Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center in Asela, Ethiopia. <br />
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Ug99 is devastating to wheat, leaving the heads with nothing but small, shriveled grain in the otherwise normal looking heads. It was discovered first in Uganda in 1999 and has since been moving east, having recently been found in Yemen.<br />
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The rust is seen as red patches along the stem of the wheat, hence the name.  <br />
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KULUMSA AGRICUTURAL RESEARCH CENTER (KARC) is about 167 km southeast of Addis Ababa. It is located in the Oromiya Regional State in the northeast periphery of the town of Asela, Arsi Zone.
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  • Drew Rivers on Full Belly Farm, California.
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  • Restoration in the Loess Plateau region of China.  Fo Tang Yan village in Zizhou County where there is a very large restoration project planting date trees.  The propaganda moto on a terrace read "Plant a thousand mu (Chinese acres) of date trees for a thousand years of prosperity."
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  • Storing grain on a street in rural Nebraska
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  • Genetically modified GMO cotton compared to non-GMO plants which have been eaten by insects.
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  • Wheat harvest in the Palouse of Washington.
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  • On the farm of Yacouba Sawadogo near the village of Gourga in northern Burkina Faso (north of Oubhigouya.  Yacouba has been a famous pioneer in using the technique of Zai, small pits dug in the hard soil to promote plant growth, the restore regions once thought lost to desertification in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  • Farmer  with the harvest of ground peas that he grows by intercropping with his sorghum in his village of Kolokani, Mali.
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  • Sufia Begum collects and sells milk in the village of Molmolia, Dumvnia, Khulna, Bangladesh. She basically goes around to the various houses, collects excess milk in her vessel, then goes around and sells it by the glass. Part of the village good system.
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  • Ms. Anwana Begum owns farms and owns a small shop and tea stall. She has a homestead garden, grows taro and green banana for curry. Her village is Shajiali, near Jessore, Bangladesh.
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  • Winnowing rice in the rice paddies among the coconut trees in Luwus village of Bali. The woman is Bu Jro and she was getting one bag of rice (70kg) per each died of one eco size. (100 ecos to the hectare.)
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  • Gevevieve Sekulovich in the Weston Antique Apples orchard near New Berllin, Wisconsin.<br />
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Weston's Orchards, the oldest active orchard in Waukesha, were established in 1935 by Harvey and Alice Weston on a site owned by Alice's father, William Marckwardt. By this time the farm already had an orchard and several of its current buildings. For example, its Dutch colonial style barn dates to 1901.<br />
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The family-operated orchards have supplied the public with historic apple varieties for over 60 years. Some of the orchards' trees were planted in the late nineteenth century and significant additional plantings were made during the Great Depression by the orchards current owners. The orchards cover 16 acres with more than 700 trees and over 100 varieties with dates varying from the Calville Blanc d'Hiver (1598), Gravenstien (1600) to the Wolf River (1881) and Pink Pearl (1944). Weston's Orchards work to conserve these antique apple vaieties from extinction. The Old Church apple, for example, is grown solely on their farm.
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  • Lorne Nelson raises Highland cattle on his family estate, Kilmaronaig, near Connel, Argyll, Scotland. His is one of the largest herds, now used primarily as breeding stock, with the Highland cattle providing a reliable degree of heartiness when cross bred with other cattle. For Nelson the cattle are part of a diversified farming program that even includes oyster and mussel farming.
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  • The Palouse of Washigton is an area of loess hills built out of wind-blown dust.  High hills are extremely fertile, with exceptional production of dryland wheat.
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  • Woman with baby harvesting potatoes  on organic farm in Maine.
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  • Wheat field in South Dakota with Schelske and Sons Harvesting on their own farm in western South Dakota.
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  • Restoration in the Loess Plateau region of China.  Fo Tang Yan village in Zizhou County where there is a very large restoration project planting date trees.  The propaganda moto on a terrace read "Plant a thousand mu (Chinese acres) of date trees for a thousand years of prosperity."
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  • Urban development encroaching on a farm field in Pennsylvania.  Loss of farmland to housing is a serious problem to food production.
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  • Aerial of farmland in southwest Wisconsin near the Mississippi River, south of La Crosse.  Farms surrounded by clouds along the ridges of the rich Loess bluffs along the Mississippi River.
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  • The community seed bank (CSB) in Harbu which was built and sponsored by Ethio Organic Seed Action (EOSA) to help farmers regain traditional varieties of crops and have a safety net against loss of crops in times of drought and crop failure. <br />
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Members of the seed bank contribute seeds and can use the seeds for their crops. Included in the seed bank is a germplasm reserve, where seeds are stored in jars as a further means of preserving greater crop diversity. <br />
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Seen in the germplasm reserve are CSB members and farmers Ansha Seid (turquoise scarf) and Seid Shiferan (tan scarf) looking at the jars of seeds.
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  • Out on his riding lawnmower to take a look at his irrigation well, 98 year old T.E. Lutrick swings a leg over the steering wheel to get a better look.  Lutrick has farmed here since 1920.  Put this well in in 1936 when  "Everyone thought I was crazy."  Got into irrigation to assure crops in bad years, a common early pattern.  One of the earliest irrigators in the Texas High Plains.  Colorful character.
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  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
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Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
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The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals.
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