Unpopular opinion:
Old local varieties have little future. 😬 Maybe by moving them all a couple of hundred km north, but our traditional landraces weren't made for this.

Ok, maybe in *some* cases, the innate robustness will help them to cope with heat and drought, but we need to work on the issue quick.

(Modern cultivars aren't adapted either, but there is less of a stake in maintaining them in a certain geographical region)

A question to people active in Seedbanks: how are you adapting?

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I have a huge surplus of #sunchokes so I’ve been looking into ways to use it. I made chips, dried some and powdered it as a flour additive, froze some, and lacto-fermented a batch.

The brine from the lacto-fermented is a yum probiotic— perfect for adding to soda. I also harvested yeast to make a sourdough starter. The smaller leaves are tasty. This is a plant that will be ok in most places even through climate changes.

#permaculture #gardening #jerusalemartichokes
#climatechangegarden