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S3E4 Dulcinea Carrot



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, we'll be talking about carrot breeding in general, and two breeding projects in particular. First, Claire and Irwin will tell us about the Open Source Seed Initiative-pledged carrot breeding populations that they’ve developed at University of Wisconsin-Madison. They’ll explain how the UW-Madison Goldman Lab is able to speed up the seed production process to fit it into one single year using greenhouses and vernalization chambers.



Then we’ll hear from Petra about the project to develop ‘Dulcinea’, a new variety offered by Fruition Seeds, which Irwin and Claire have collaborated on. And all three of our guests will weigh in on the basic steps of any carrot breeding project.



Full transcripts are available on the Open Source Seed Initiative's website at https://osseeds.org/category/free-the-seed-podcast/

S3E3 Festivity Sweet Corn



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 Jonathan Spero of Lupine Knoll Farm about 'Festivity', an open-pollinated multi-colored sweet corn that he developed.



Full transcripts are available on the Open Source Seed Initiative's website at https://osseeds.org/category/free-the-seed-podcast/

S3E2 Dakota Tears Onion



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 David Podoll of Prairie Road Organic Farm about 'Dakota Tears', an open-pollinated yellow-skinned, firm-fleshed storage onion that he developed.



Full transcripts are available on the Open Source Seed Initiative's website at https://osseeds.org/category/free-the-seed-podcast/

S3E1: South Anna Butternut



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 Edmund Frost of Twin Oaks Seed Farm and Common Wealth Seed Growers about South Anna Butternut, a downy-mildew resistant winter squash that he developed.



Full transcripts are available on the Open Source Seed Initiative's website at https://osseeds.org/category/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 (http://bit.ly/FreetheSeed), 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!

S2E4: The Dwarf Tomato Project



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 Patrina Nuske Small and Craig LeHoullier about the Dwarf Tomato Project, a collaborative, all-volunteer tomato breeding project. We discuss how the project came about, the benefits and challenges of having an all-volunteer team, and the pleasant surprises of plant breeding.



Full transcripts are available on the Open Source Seed Initiative's website at https://osseeds.org/category/free-the-seed-podcast/