Some photos from the day
Joseph speaking in the school cantine
The school’s Green Lab showing their experiments with squash - fermented squash juice, squash crisps/crackers, Japanese style tsukemono, “sausage-style” salt-cured-smoked-koji-molded vegetables and some interesting failures too:
Preparing squash for tasting and selection workshop:
Tasting 11 different squash and 15 carrots from diverse populations and selecting the best. All participants going around the table, discussing flavor and judging, writing notes on a big piece of paper. I encouraged everyone to leave aside the compulsive positivity and have some fun being judgmental!
Serendipity Seed Swap on the table
Visit from @Tanjaeskildsen too who I unfortunately didn’t have much of chance to talk to with all the running around and organizing the day!
Assessing scores at the end of the day. Huge differences. Which confirmed for me how I’d probably get to the crops I want much faster if I only save seed from things that someone evaluated the taste of.
We video-recorded the whole day. A colleague will try to edit the videos and put them on youtube. I’ll let you know when it happens. @Tanjaeskildsen