I want you to learn about an amazing project in Lebanon, called Buzuruna Juzuruna. The project was initiated together with Syrian refugees that had to learn the lesson that food sovereignty is not an option, but a necessity.

https://shorkk.com/buzuruna-juzuruna-a-haven-of-solidarity-in-times-of-war/

The article is from 2024, during the last war, when Buzuruna Juzuruna used their stored grains and legumes to support solidarity kitchens that were feeding the refugees.

Now in 2026, they are doing the same thing again. But last year they could do so much more. Seedbanks. Food processing. Farmer Field Schools. Agroecological farming techniques. Alphabetization. Culture. Art.

https://liberatediversity.org/read-the-latest-newsletter-of-the-buzuruna-juzuruna-network/

Here's their instagram, for mor up-to-date news
https://www.instagram.com/buzurunajuzuruna/

We all can learn so much from these people.
I think every day about them.

#Lebanon #agroecology #Syria #GoodNews #Israel #BuzurunaJuzuruna #SeedBank #PeasantFarming #FoodSovereignty #Germany #Staatsräson #EternalDarkness

Really enjoyed this study from Ruby Paroissien at UNSW and the Australian Plantbank, looking at seed dispersal in the wet sclerophyll forests of SE Aus following the 2019/20 disaster fire season.

They found that post-fire seed dispersal from rainforest species was almost entirely absent 😟 hugely concerning when we have begun to see some of our oldest rainforests burn.

A highlight of the paper is Ruby's hand-drawn seed illustrations!

https://doi.org/10.1071/BT25061

#FireEcology #FireScience #Wildfire #SeedBank #Australia

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I expanded my collection of #Tolkien books with The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation from W.W. Norton
- I used my employer's Christmas voucher to buy a copy of Simon Parkin's The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege from Sceptre (look out for a review in due course).
- I also found a second-hand copy of What Is Regeneration? from the University of Chicago Press.

#Books #Scicomm #Literature #DevelopmentalBiology #SeedBank #Botany #Bookstodon @bookstodon

My favorite #SeedBank #SeedSharing site:

https://www.nativeseeds.org

I've grown most of their chile #pepper #seeds and some of the purple #tomatoes. Good fun; good to eat.

#NativeAmerican #Opata

The Forbidden Garden Of Leningrad By Simon Parkin — Review

"The untold true story of Russian botanists at the world’s first seed bank in besieged Leningrad during WW2 who faced a terrible choice."

#BookReview by @grrlscientist

#books #History #SeedBank #scientists #Russia #Leningrad https://grrlscientist.medium.com/the-forbidden-garden-of-leningrad-by-simon-parkin-review-341fd0aa0770

The Forbidden Garden Of Leningrad By Simon Parkin — Review

"The untold true story of Russian botanists at the world’s first seed bank in besieged Leningrad during WW2 who faced a terrible choice."

#BookReview by @GrrlScientist

#books #SeedBank #scientists #Russia #Leningrad https://grrlscientist.medium.com/the-forbidden-garden-of-leningrad-by-simon-parkin-review-341fd0aa0770

The Forbidden Garden Of Leningrad By Simon Parkin — Review

"The untold true story of Russian botanists at the world’s first seed bank in besieged Leningrad during WW2 who faced a terrible choice."

#BookReview by @GrrlScientist

#books #SeedBank #scientists #Russia #Leningrad https://grrlscientist.medium.com/the-forbidden-garden-of-leningrad-by-simon-parkin-review-341fd0aa0770

The Forbidden Garden Of Leningrad By Simon Parkin — Review

"The untold true story of Russian botanists at the world’s first seed bank in besieged Leningrad during WW2 who faced a terrible choice."

#BookReview by @grrlscientist

#books #SeedBank #scientists #Russia #Leningrad https://grrlscientist.medium.com/the-forbidden-garden-of-leningrad-by-simon-parkin-review-341fd0aa0770

Arne Victor Garvi also pioneered in setting up a seed bank that stores seeds at room temperature rather than refrigerating them, using neem oil to prevent insect damage.

#seedbank #neemoil