S3E4 Dulcinea Carrot- Free The Seed! Podcast

S3E3 Festivity Sweet Corn- Free The Seed! Podcast

S3E2 Dakota Tears Onion- Free The Seed! Podcast

Anna Butternut

S3E1 South Anna Butternut- Free The Seed! Podcast

Hi everyone! I’m here to let you know that Free the Seed! is returning soon for its third season. This time around, I’ll be talking with plant breeders Edmund Frost, David Podoll, and Jonathan Spero about butternut squash, onions, and sweet corn. Irwin Goldman and Claire Luby will be joined by Petra Page-Mann for a more in-depth conversation about carrot breeding and about collaborations that have come out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s OSSI-pledged carrot populations. Free the Seed! is now on Spotify, and you can subscribe there, or wherever you get your podcasts. Please consider telling a friend about the show, and look for the first episode later this fall. Thanks for listening!

Hi everyone! I’m here to let you know that Free the Seed! is returning soon for its third season. This time around, I’ll be talking with plant breeders Edmund Frost, David Podoll, and Jonathan Spero about butternut squash, onions, and sweet corn. Irwin Goldman and Claire Luby will be joined by Petra Page-Mann for a more in-depth conversation about carrot breeding and about collaborations that have come out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s OSSI-pledged carrot populations. Free the Seed! is now on <a href="http://bit.ly/FreetheSeed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, and you can subscribe there, or wherever you get your podcasts. Please consider telling a friend about the show, and look for the first episode later this fall. Thanks for listening!

Announcing Season 3!

S2E4 The Dwarf Tomato Project – Free The Seed! Podcast

S2E3 Rozette Potato- Free The Seed! Podcast

S2E2 Lofthouse-Oliverson Landrace Muskmelon – Free The Seed! Podcast

S2E1 Gypsy Queens – Free The Seed! Podcast

Announcing Season 2 of Free the Seed! the Open Source Seed Initiative podcast We’re excited to announce that we’ll be producing a second season of Free the Seed!, the podcast that tells the stories of where plant varieties come from. We’ve had great responses from the first season, and we want to thank you all for listening! It’s been a fun journey to make these episodes, and we’re excited to have the chance to do some more. In the new season, host Rachel Hultengren will be talking to four more plant breeders about their projects in developing new open-source pepper, tomato, melon and potato varieties. These episodes will be released sometime in late winter or early spring – we hope you’ll join us then. Subscribe to Free the Seed! wherever you get your podcasts. Has listening to Free the Seed! inspired you to start a plant breeding project of your own, or to learn more about the vegetable varieties you eat? In preparation for releasing the second season, we’d love to hear your feedback about the podcast, and we’re asking listeners to fill out a quick survey for us. It’s brief, only ten questions, and should only take a few minutes. Thanks in advance for taking the time to share your thoughts! Share your thoughts with us through our brief listener survey!

<h2>Announcing Season 2 of Free the Seed! the Open Source Seed Initiative podcast</h2> We’re excited to announce that we’ll be producing a second season of Free the Seed!, the podcast that tells the stories of where plant varieties come from. We’ve had great responses from the first season, and we want to thank you all for listening! It’s been a fun journey to make these episodes, and we’re excited to have the chance to do some more. In the new season, host Rachel Hultengren will be talking to four more plant breeders about their projects in developing new open-source pepper, tomato, melon and potato varieties. These episodes will be released sometime in late winter or early spring – we hope you’ll join us then. Subscribe to Free the Seed! wherever you get your podcasts. Has listening to Free the Seed! inspired you to start a plant breeding project of your own, or to learn more about the vegetable varieties you eat? In preparation for releasing the second season, we’d love to hear your feedback about the podcast, and we’re asking listeners to fill out a quick survey for us. It’s brief, only ten questions, and should only take a few minutes. Thanks in advance for taking the time to share your thoughts! Share your thoughts with us through our <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TY73HXS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">brief listener survey!</a>

Announcing Season 2 – Free The Seed! Podcast

This podcast is for anyone interested in the plants we eat – farmers, gardeners and food curious folks – who want to dig deeper into where their food comes from. In each episode, we hear the story of a variety that has been pledged as open-source from the plant breeder that developed it

A rare interviewer who asks exactly the questions you want her to, then listens without interruption. She fills in the technical information you want if the interviewee doesn’t. It is especially good for more experienced gardeners who are interested in seed saving and discovering specific varieties of veg

Great interviewer

Fantastic

Free The Seed!

Episode three of Free the Seed! the Open Source Seed Initiative podcastThis podcast is for anyone interested in the plants we eat – farmers, gardeners and food curious folks – who want to dig deeper into where their food comes from. It’s about how new crop varieties make it into your seed catalogues and onto your tables. In each episode, we hear the story of a variety that has been pledged as open-source from the plant breeder that developed it.In this episode, host Rachel Hultengren talks with Frank Morton of Shoulder to Shoulder Farm about his lettuce variety, ‘Hyper Red Rumple Waved’, and about his journey in breeding lettuce, from salad to seed. Frank and his wife Karen are the originators of Wild Garden Seed, a farm-based organic seed company based in the Pacific Northwest, and Frank has pledged as open-source not only ‘Hyper Red Rumple Waved’, but all of the varieties and breeding populations that he has developed.Find 'Hyper Red Rumple Waved' lettuce seed here at the Wild Garden Seed's Website.Frank MortonLettuce florets (Credit: Rachel Hultengren)[gdlr_button href="https://osseeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/S1E3_HyperRedRumpleWaved_Transcript.pdf" target="_self" size="medium" background="#5dc269" color="#ffffff"]Download the Transcript[/gdlr_button]Free the Seed! Transcript for S1E3: Hyper Red Rumple Waved LettuceRachel Hultengren: Welcome to Free the Seed! I’m your host, Rachel Hultengren. This podcast is for anyone interested in the plants we eat – farmers, gardeners and food curious folks – who want to dig deeper into where their food comes from. It’s about how new crop varieties make it into your seed catalogues and onto your tables.In each episode, we hear the story of a variety that has been pledged as open-source from the plant breeder that developed it.We’ll be talking today with Frank Morton of Shoulder to Shoulder Farm about his lettuce variety, ‘Hyper Red Rumple Waved’, and about his journey in breeding lettuce, from salad to seed. Frank and his wife Karen are the originators of Wild Garden Seed, a farm-based organic seed company based in the Pacific Northwest, and Frank has pledged as open-source not only ‘Hyper Red Rumple Waved’, but all of the varieties and breeding populations that he has developed.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rachel Hultengren: Hi Frank, welcome to the show.Frank Morton: Hi Rachel, thanks for inviting me. I’m glad you’re doing these podcasts.Rachel Hultengren: Yeah, thanks for being with us today. So maybe you could describe ‘Hyper Red Rumple Waved’ for us?Frank Morton: Okay. Well, it’s an upright leaf lettuce. It’s sort of a romaine shape, but it doesn’t form a dense heart. It’s very dark red, the leaves are puckered and savoyed. The margins of the leaves are wavy, that is the edge of the leaf is not smooth, but it’s sort of ruffled. It has good downy mildew resistance. I’ve gotten a lot of reports about its cold hardiness, and it’s a lettuce that, I don’t know, I think we introduced it about twenty years ago. So I’ve had to sort of refresh my memory about just it a little bit; it’s a lot of lettuces back there.Rachel Hultengren: So it sounds like it’s been a while since it was released, but remembering back, how did you decide to take on this project of developing a new variety?Frank Morton: Well, you sort of have to get back to where I was in terms of my farming life at the time. During that period of time, Karen and I were salad green growers, and we grew salads sort of on subscription for restaurants. It was sort of like a CSA, which is to say a restaurant was signed up for a certain amount of salad each week. And we would ship salad from our farm using UPS trucks and Fed Ex and the USPS and we would ship salad to… well we’re in Oregon here, but we would ship salad to Seattle, to Portland, Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia, NYC…

Episode three of Free the Seed! the Open Source Seed Initiative podcast This podcast is for anyone interested in the plants we eat – farmers, gardeners and food curious folks – who want to dig deeper into where their food comes from. It’s about how new crop varieties make it into your seed catalogues and onto your tables. In each episode, we hear the story of a variety that has been pledged as open-source from the plant breeder that developed it. In this episode, host Rachel Hultengren talks with Frank Morton of Shoulder to Shoulder Farm about his lettuce variety, ‘Hyper Red Rumple Waved’, and about his journey in breeding lettuce, from salad to seed. Frank and his wife Karen are the originators of Wild Garden Seed, a farm-based organic seed company based in the Pacific Northwest, and Frank has pledged as open-source not only ‘Hyper Red Rumple Waved’, but all of the varieties and breeding populations that he has developed. Find 'Hyper Red Rumple Waved' lettuce seed here at the Wild Garden Seed's Website. Frank Morton Lettuce florets (Credit: Rachel Hultengren) [gdlr_button href="<a href="https://osseeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/S1E3_HyperRedRumpleWaved_Transcript.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://osseeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/S1E3_HyperRedRumpleWaved_Transcript.pdf</a>" target="_self" size="medium" background="#5dc269" color="#ffffff"]Download the Transcript[/gdlr_button] Free the Seed! Transcript for S1E3: Hyper Red Rumple Waved Lettuce Rachel Hultengren: Welcome to Free the Seed! I’m your host, Rachel Hultengren. This podcast is for anyone interested in the plants we eat – farmers, gardeners and food curious folks – who want to dig deeper into where their food comes from. It’s about how new crop varieties make it into your seed catalogues and onto your tables. In each episode, we hear the story of a variety that has been pledged as open-source from the plant breeder that developed it. We’ll be talking today with Frank Morton of Shoulder to Shoulder Farm about his lettuce variety, ‘Hyper Red Rumple Waved’, and about his journey in breeding lettuce, from salad to seed. Frank and his wife Karen are the originators of Wild Garden Seed, a farm-based organic seed company based in the Pacific Northwest, and Frank has pledged as open-source not only ‘Hyper Red Rumple Waved’, but all of the varieties and breeding populations that he has developed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rachel Hultengren: Hi Frank, welcome to the show. Frank Morton: Hi Rachel, thanks for inviting me. I’m glad you’re doing these podcasts. Rachel Hultengren: Yeah, thanks for being with us today. So maybe you could describe ‘Hyper Red Rumple Waved’ for us? Frank Morton: Okay. Well, it’s an upright leaf lettuce. It’s sort of a romaine shape, but it doesn’t form a dense heart. It’s very dark red, the leaves are puckered and savoyed. The margins of the leaves are wavy, that is the edge of the leaf is not smooth, but it’s sort of ruffled. It has good downy mildew resistance. I’ve gotten a lot of reports about its cold hardiness, and it’s a lettuce that, I don’t know, I think we introduced it about twenty years ago. So I’ve had to sort of refresh my memory about just it a little bit; it’s a lot of lettuces back there. Rachel Hultengren: So it sounds like it’s been a while since it was released, but remembering back, how did you decide to take on this project of developing a new variety? Frank Morton: Well, you sort of have to get back to where I was in terms of my farming life at the time. During that period of time, Karen and I were salad green growers, and we grew salads sort of on subscription for restaurants. It was sort of like a CSA, which is to say a restaurant was signed up for a certain amount of salad each week. And we would ship salad from our farm using UPS trucks and Fed Ex and the USPS and we would ship salad to… well we’re in Oregon here, but we would ship salad to Seattle, to Portland, Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia, NYC…

03 Hyper Red Rumple Waved Lettuce – Free The Seed! Podcast

Episode four of Free the Seed! the Open Source Seed Initiative podcastThis podcast is for anyone interested in the plants we eat – farmers, gardeners and food curious folks – who want to dig deeper into where their food comes from. It’s about how new crop varieties make it into your seed catalogues and onto your tables. In each episode, we hear the story of a variety that has been pledged as open-source from the plant breeder that developed it.This episode is a little different from the previous episodes; instead of a moderately uniform, finished variety, Rachel Hultengren will be talking with Don Tipping of Seven Seeds Farm about a diverse spinach population that he has pledged to be open-source. ‘Popeye’, which is available through Don’s seed company, Siskiyou Seeds, has been selected for traits that are important to farmers in southern Oregon, where Don’s farm is located. In addition to the details of the breeding work behind ‘Popeye’, Don shared his thoughts on broader topics relevant to the future agricultural system to which he hopes to contribute.Find Popeye Spinach seed here at the Siskiyou Seeds WebsiteDon Tipping'Popeye' spinach going to seed. (Credit: Don Tipping)'Popeye' spinach growing in the field. (Credit: Don Tipping)[gdlr_button href="https://osseeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/S1E4_Popeye_Transcript.pdf" target="_self" size="medium" background="#5dc269" color="#ffffff"]Download the Transcript[/gdlr_button]Free the Seed!Transcript for S1E4: Popeye SpinachRachel Hultengren: Hello and welcome to Free the Seed! This podcast is for anyone interested in the plants we eat – farmers, gardeners, and food-curious folks – who want to dig deeper into the story of where their food comes from. It’s about how new crop varieties make it into your seed catalogues, and onto your tables. In each episode, we hear the story of a variety that has been pledged as open-source from the plant breeder that developed it. I’m your host, Rachel Hultengren.This episode is a little different from the previous episodes; instead of a moderately uniform, finished variety, we’ll be talking with Don Tipping of Seven Seeds Farm about a diverse spinach population that he has pledged to be open-source. ‘Popeye’, which is available through Don’s seed company, Siskiyou Seeds, has been selected for traits that are important to farmers in southern Oregon, where Don’s farm is located. In addition to the details of the breeding work behind ‘Popeye’, Don shared his thoughts on broader topics relevant to the future agricultural system to which he hopes to contribute.A heads-up about some of the sound quality – when I spoke with Don, he was out in his fields, and you’ll hear the wind blowing by a bit.Our conversation started with Don explaining that his farm isn’t in a prime spinach seed growing region of the US, and how that inspired him to breed spinach.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Don Tipping: I live in SW Oregon, which is known as the ‘banana belt’ of Oregon, because we have hot dry summers and cool moist winters. So a bit of a Mediterranean climate but perhaps a little more extreme in the winters. So typically spinach is grown as a spring and fall crop, just because it doesn’t do well in the heat we have here. But in early May, when spring spinach crops would be growing, it can easily get up into the 90’s which is not ideal spinach growing weather. So we hadn’t produced a whole lot of spinach seed after we learned when we did grow spinach for a few seed companies on commercial contracts that we were just not in the right area to be growing spinach because when it gets hot the plants bolt quickly and it doesn’t have the time to build the stature to produce a good seed head.So ‘Popeye’ really started a bit as a learning experiment and a challenge to that notion of ‘should we only grow seed in the area...

Episode four of Free the Seed! the Open Source Seed Initiative podcast This podcast is for anyone interested in the plants we eat – farmers, gardeners and food curious folks – who want to dig deeper into where their food comes from. It’s about how new crop varieties make it into your seed catalogues and onto your tables. In each episode, we hear the story of a variety that has been pledged as open-source from the plant breeder that developed it. This episode is a little different from the previous episodes; instead of a moderately uniform, finished variety, Rachel Hultengren will be talking with Don Tipping of Seven Seeds Farm about a diverse spinach population that he has pledged to be open-source. ‘Popeye’, which is available through Don’s seed company, Siskiyou Seeds, has been selected for traits that are important to farmers in southern Oregon, where Don’s farm is located. In addition to the details of the breeding work behind ‘Popeye’, Don shared his thoughts on broader topics relevant to the future agricultural system to which he hopes to contribute. Find Popeye Spinach seed here at the Siskiyou Seeds Website Don Tipping 'Popeye' spinach going to seed. (Credit: Don Tipping) 'Popeye' spinach growing in the field. (Credit: Don Tipping) [gdlr_button href="<a href="https://osseeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/S1E4_Popeye_Transcript.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://osseeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/S1E4_Popeye_Transcript.pdf</a>" target="_self" size="medium" background="#5dc269" color="#ffffff"]Download the Transcript[/gdlr_button] Free the Seed!Transcript for S1E4: Popeye Spinach Rachel Hultengren: Hello and welcome to Free the Seed! This podcast is for anyone interested in the plants we eat – farmers, gardeners, and food-curious folks – who want to dig deeper into the story of where their food comes from. It’s about how new crop varieties make it into your seed catalogues, and onto your tables. In each episode, we hear the story of a variety that has been pledged as open-source from the plant breeder that developed it. I’m your host, Rachel Hultengren. This episode is a little different from the previous episodes; instead of a moderately uniform, finished variety, we’ll be talking with Don Tipping of Seven Seeds Farm about a diverse spinach population that he has pledged to be open-source. ‘Popeye’, which is available through Don’s seed company, Siskiyou Seeds, has been selected for traits that are important to farmers in southern Oregon, where Don’s farm is located. In addition to the details of the breeding work behind ‘Popeye’, Don shared his thoughts on broader topics relevant to the future agricultural system to which he hopes to contribute. A heads-up about some of the sound quality – when I spoke with Don, he was out in his fields, and you’ll hear the wind blowing by a bit. Our conversation started with Don explaining that his farm isn’t in a prime spinach seed growing region of the US, and how that inspired him to breed spinach. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don Tipping: I live in SW Oregon, which is known as the ‘banana belt’ of Oregon, because we have hot dry summers and cool moist winters. So a bit of a Mediterranean climate but perhaps a little more extreme in the winters. So typically spinach is grown as a spring and fall crop, just because it doesn’t do well in the heat we have here. But in early May, when spring spinach crops would be growing, it can easily get up into the 90’s which is not ideal spinach growing weather. So we hadn’t produced a whole lot of spinach seed after we learned when we did grow spinach for a few seed companies on commercial contracts that we were just not in the right area to be growing spinach because when it gets hot the plants bolt quickly and it doesn’t have the time to build the stature to produce a good seed head. So ‘Popeye’ really started a bit as a learning experiment and a challenge to that notion of ‘should we only grow seed in the area...

04 Popeye Spinach – Free The Seed! Podcast

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