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Post by Alan on Feb 4, 2009 19:20:54 GMT -5
Hello Everyone, as you may or may not know, Tim Peters has agreed to the next Homegrown Goodness Interview. Tim has also graced us with his presense here on our little messageboard, which is a huge step for us all in the right direction.
Anyhow, we need some in depth questions to ask Mr. Peters, I know Tim has been answering questions here on the messageboard, but this interview will be permanently posted here and on my blog (http://homegrowngoodness.blogspot.com) for future readers.
Tim is an expert when it comes to grains, perrinial grains, and perrinial vegetables.
Let's come up with some good ones my friends!
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Post by Alan on Feb 9, 2009 15:08:18 GMT -5
Hello my friends! We need questions ASAP, I have recieved many via my blog and e-mail but few from this site yet! Get on the ball guys, this is a great opporotunity for Tim Peters to share his knowledge with us!
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Post by grungy on Feb 9, 2009 15:49:55 GMT -5
Well, one question that keeps kniggling the back of my mind. Does the "winter" varieties have anything to do with his breeding program? Such as winter wheat and winter rye?
And another one - To what temperature either F or C does his perenniel (sp?) varieties survive and produce reasonable crops. Would mulching extend the temperature range?
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Post by jason on Feb 9, 2009 18:46:55 GMT -5
Maybe the anwser to this is around, but I would be curious to learn more about his work with mustards. I've seen a few of the mustard mixes offered and grown the one from bountiful gardens. Are they grown as a mass cross or intentional crosses or what? Maybe how long has he been working with those and why they are offered in mixes instead of select varieties.
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Post by Alan on Feb 11, 2009 16:55:09 GMT -5
 Now we are getting somewhere! Keep them coming guys!
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Post by bunkie on Feb 12, 2009 12:26:29 GMT -5
i was reading a little about Wild Triga, a wheatgrass and perennial, and wondering if some of tim's works to create perennial wheats included a cross with this variety?
also, does tim have a perennial broccoli on the market? is this the Umpqua variety?
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Post by Alan on Feb 17, 2009 19:25:06 GMT -5
Keep 'em coming my friends, we almost have enough between here and my e-mail for a really great interview! I'm going to try to get them all together by early next week to conduct the interview before everyone gets busy with springtime projects!
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Post by alkapuler on Feb 19, 2009 0:23:34 GMT -5
-how do population sizes vary with the different plants you breed?
-why do you think that thale cress (Arabidopsis thaleana) has more gene than we do?
-is somatic cell fusion of use in adapting food plants to difficult ecologies?
-does the rate of evolution change with temperature?
-what nutritional traits are worth improving by breeding?
-what do you think of taking genes from a frozen wooly mammoth elephant and putting them in a modern one?
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Post by Alan on Feb 25, 2009 21:50:55 GMT -5
Sent the interview out to Tim this past weekend! Looking forward to it!
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Post by PatrickW on Feb 26, 2009 10:16:44 GMT -5
-what do you think of taking genes from a frozen wooly mammoth elephant and putting them in a modern one? I knew there was a question we forgot to ask you in your interview! |
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 10, 2009 11:49:39 GMT -5
Shucks, I missed this one... I don't know Mr. Peters but from the questions I take it he is in wheat? I am hoping to source Emmers Black. Any words for this?
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Post by canadamike on Apr 14, 2009 0:26:49 GMT -5
I think I can get this one for you but it will take time, we should have some by the fall. We are talkingc about black emmer, triticum dicoccum?
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 17, 2009 19:42:59 GMT -5
Take all the time you need! I won't put it down till next season. I'm talking about "Black Emmer Wheat". I don't know the Latin I'm afraid. What I learned was that it is ancient variety from Persia (or there abouts) and dates back to before Christ. As I understand it, and I understand very little so feel free to eddicate me as you can, hybrid wheat grown in monoculture by conglomerates are infertile. This is supposed to mean that should something occur to wipe out the crops worldwide, there would be no more wheat. Does this make any sense to you? It's really way above my head to be honest. My main focus is to be certain that I have access to wheat for making bread that I won't have to pay for and that I can pass the seed down to my sons.
While you are at it, I am also interested in participating in the revival of "Carolina Gold" rice. Again, the science is way over my head, I can't do anything major, but I would like to grow it out to collect more seed in the hopes that one day I have access to enough land to grow enough for eating.
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Post by canadamike on Apr 17, 2009 20:58:45 GMT -5
No, wheat is not sterile...sexually ( but it can be partly), but given what the plants are fed with now, I kind of like your analogy..
Emmer is a high starch wheat, it is called ''blé amidonnier'' in french, or ''starch making wheat''
You couls also just go to the health store and buy kamut, it is an ancient wheat too, easy to thresh, as opposed to black emmer...
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 18, 2009 7:42:45 GMT -5
Kamut huh? OK, I'll give it a shot. Starch making... That would mean it has a high gluten content right? High gluten is highly desirable for bread. I'm not sure we even have a health food store around here. I might have to hunt around. I'm still interested in the Emmer Black though! I'm sure there were several things that put me on track for it that I'm not recalling now... =o)
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Now we are getting somewhere! Keep them coming guys!
