Pro Specie Rara seedling market
Yesterday I wrote that I went to an heirloom seedling market at Schloss Wildegg on Sunday. The exhibition ran over the weekend, and it seems that many items were already sold out on Saturday. Anyway, there was still quite a selection of fruit- and vegetable- seeds and seedlings when I got there. Not all heirloom though, judging by the fact that not all the tags had the little red Pro Specie Rara logo you can see in the photos here. And not all Swiss heirloom either. Can you make out the Amish Paste tag (1st column, 2nd row)? That's from Wisconsin, though given the Swiss-Amish connection...
One interesting thing for me was to find that a large fraction of the selection was composed of plants that were brought from the Americas. Can you -- those of you not in the Americas -- imagine what life would be like without things like potatoes, tomatoes, chillis/capsicum peppers and CHOCOLATE?! What would the Swiss do without cacao?
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2 comments:
I like your photograph. I also enjoyed reading your narrative. I wonder if you left out "tobacco" on purpose as it came from here and turned out not to be good.
I got to fly last night. I mean I just dove in and flew. You can find out how on my blog post today.
It's special, this effort to keep alive interest in many varieties of plants. Go for it!
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