Throwing open the doors to get people’s ideas for a set of ~3 standard questions to conclude the podcast interviews with amateur plant breeders at the end of each episode.
I am looking for thought-provoking, open-ended questions that the guest could take in a lot of different directions. They could also be useful to make excerpt videos for youtube/etc to give people a taste of the guests.
Two current ideas:
If you could work with any species without constraints, what would you love to create?
What is your vision for the future of food in your community?
How about, what 3 landrace (or crop breeding) projects would you like others to take on that needs doing?
My thinking is that this could be a way for a wider audience who are already inspired to take on projects and make collaborations, to hear needs/potential that experts see but don’t have the time/resources to do themselves. So, a kind of way to extend their activity through the community.
In the past there was the “victory garden” fast forward to today and gardens need to be genetically re-made to go to the next milenium…but what foods do we eat? Eat with the seasons, eat new vegetables, let them go to seed…eat new greens that grow easily, try a new recipe, find and old cookbook from another country. Many cookbooks tell of how the vegetables were grown or gathered. So many flavors to dine on, have friends over for something they haven’t had before. Our food systems have become bland with many of the choices that are currently harvested large scale. And colors to make into lovely meals!! Red, purple and blue everything!
Grow to eat tasty, fresh created cuisine especially edible flowers!