Webinar: Vegetable Seed Training Programme - Webinar 7: Plant Selection 2
Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to grow open pollinated vegetable seed crops competently. The course is being delivered as a partnership between Tyfu Cymru and the UK Seed Sovereignty Programme. We will welcome outside teachers to lead on specific topics, as well as working closely with expert trainers from the Heritage Seed Library.
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Planning For Seed Crops
Planning Annual & Biennial Seed Crops See Vegetable Seed Training Programme – Session 3 (Planning) Webinar for more information.
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Seed Cultivation - Seed Quality
Seed producers want to produce the best quality seeds. As growers we know that good quality seeds will show better germination rates and store for longer. They produce healthier plants with a greater resistance to pests and diseases and will produce…
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Intermediate seed saving – Routes to Market. In this webinar we start with talking about being contracted to grow seed.
10/22/2021 3:58:59 PM
Seed Cleaning and Storage
Seed cleaning is getting the seed out of its ‘container’ and removing anything else to just have the seed left. ‘Separating the wheat from the chaff’.
10/8/2021 10:18:07 AMWebinar: Vegetable Seed Training Programme - Webinar 9 - Managing and processing your seed
Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to grow open pollinated vegetable seed crops competently.
9/17/2021 4:27:08 PMWebinar: Vegetable Seed Training Programme - Webinar 8 - Harvesting and cleaning your seed
Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to grow open pollinated vegetable seed crops competently.
9/17/2021 3:44:47 PMVegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 5
The session will re-cap on the basic genetics of seed production, including what is meant by “true to type” and the importance of population size in relation to the selection of inbreeding and outbreeding vegetables. We will look at roguing and selec…
6/2/2021 2:20:31 PMVegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 4
Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to grow open pollinated vegetable seed crops competently. The course is being delivered as a partnership between Tyfu Cymru and the UK Seed Sovereignty Programme. We will welcome…
4/29/2021 2:48:56 PMVegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 3
Our 12-month seed production training is designed to give you the tools to grow open pollinated vegetable seed crops competently. The course is being delivered as a partnership between Tyfu Cymru and the UK Seed Sovereignty Programme. We will welcome…
3/31/2021 5:56:09 PMVegetable Seed Training Programme - Webinar 2: Plant Reproduction
3/16/2021 4:05:02 PMPlant Reproduction Toolkit
This toolkit forms part of the Tyfu Cymru Intermediate Vegetable Seed Training Programme.
2/19/2021 6:22:04 PM
Vegetable Seed Training Programme: Webinar 1 – Seed Sovereignty
Producing an open pollinated seed crop on your farm can improve the quality of your future crops, increase plant adaptation to local conditions, give you access to new varieties and new skills. Seed production can also bring an added income stream to…
2/2/2021 4:21:49 PM
Seed Training Programme - Webinar 3 Selection of crop for seed
This third session will look at the principle involved at the selection stage through to harvest. The session covers: Importance of population size to inbreeders/outbreeders The role of selection in seed production – how to determine what is “true-to…
8/4/2020 11:11:39 AM
Seed Training Programme - Webinar 2: Cultivation of trickier crops for seed
The second cultivation session builds on the first session and look at trickier crops – annuals that will readily cross-pollinate and biennials that require overwintering methods. The crops covered in this session are: Runner bean Broad bean Cucurbit…
7/23/2020 3:01:20 PM
Seed Training Programme - Webinar 1: Cultivation of simple crops for seed
This session introduces the key principles and looks at what we would consider the easiest crops to cultivate for seed – annuals that self-pollinate or annuals with simple isolation and pollination requirements.
6/23/2020 2:17:11 PM
Seed Production Resources
The Gaia Foundation and Tyfu Cymru are working in partnership to deliver training in open pollinated vegetable seed production in 2020.
3/24/2020 5:30:06 PM