To those past contributors and @Joseph_Lofthouse :
@Hugo @malterod @marcela_v @stephane_rave @eArthur @Marianne @isabelle
+the other europeans listed:
@Julied @Justin @Tanjaeskildsen @Holly_S @WojciechG @mtttthwww_vdp @Hugo @Susanwakeman @ThomasPicard @Anphlo @isabelle @red @mare.silba @Jayne.oxtons @PippaChapman @malterod @JaneMulberry @seedsaver @Han @Soeren @polarca @Thulahn @Pog @Richard @Txolillo @artsyhonker @Chloe.G @Joran @lupinaster @Ruediger @Logan @stephane_rave @Nancy @Arnopikar @Dave @ChrisF @eArthur @Laura @LIeven @marcela_v @Shao
There should be new europeans on the forum I don’t know, please edit the list or share directly
Sorry for not being there on the forum over the past 1 1/2month, been verrrry busy gardening and also networking on 2 events, including the one in Antibes… Will show pictures of the garden when I can, but it’s huge : about 700m² (7000 square feet) of cucurbitaceae of about 20 sub-types (either species or sub-pops within species), and about 1000 solanaceae plants + the usual garden + some breeding work in collaboration with @JesseI …
Coming back to the point: from what I read in that topic and in this one -and it is still a bit of a disppointment- our european network seems to be not mature enough to handle this opportunity to welcome Joseph and offer him a tour or a visit of a few places in Europe in October.
I will be very busy before the international gathering, and very tired after, so then I 'll go back to my … cave^^. To rest.
Does anyone has a suggestion?
@Joseph_Lofthouse did you have serious propositions?
And then here, let me summarize once again the programme AT the international meeting (already 100 people have registered from all over the world, notably Africa and South America, then Europeans and specifically French are slow registering, but we should be from 300 to 500):
2 workshops dedicated to modern landracing, adapatation gardening or “evolutionary populations” or “PEPS” as others have coined… so new populations created intentionnally and then resselected in the farmers fields by the farmers/gardeners, in collaboration with nature…
First one (friday 8:30am) about those pioneering those selection processes with extras from Peru putting things in perspective, second (friday 10:30 am) about initiatives currently developing diverse populations all over the world. Talking about techniques and the selection process, about how do collectives organize on such promising methodologies.
Then Joseph will be part of those speaking at the plenary session (friday afternoon). Theme : seeds and migrations.
Eventually the saturday there will be a NGO forum, where I love we’ll show up as GTS.
Prior to that, for those who want to come: 2 days on farm (tuesday, wednesday), then on the thursday 1st of october: meeting of the European Let’s Liberate Diversity Coordination in the morning, and about ten different parallel workshops in 2 times in the afternoon.
All details accessible (to this day) here.
Personnally I will come with my van, so that I can sleep right next to the event and help all day long, but am open to a shared accomodation.
I promise being there if anyone asks for anything. Once aagain been busy, now will facilitate anything which is in our collective interest regarding Joseph’s visit and this possibiliyt to meet in person… an opportunity that won’t show up frequently!