¿Cuál es el sabor de un tomate de verdad? Degustación de tomates locales por primera vez en UNSAM
¿Alguna vez te detuviste a pensar por qué los tomates de la verdulería suelen ser perfectos por fuera pero desabridos […]
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Comienza la campaña 2025–2026 en la parcela experimental de Bioleft en la UNSAM
El 28 de octubre, Elba y David realizaron el trasplante de tomates en la parcela de Bioleft ubicada en la UNSAM, dando inicio a una nueva campaña de evaluación participativa. Este año, el ensayo incluye tres variedades: NoMeOlvides, Carcione (variedad platense) y #113 (variedad cherry). Los plantines fueron sembrados y cuidados por Elba en su vivero hasta alcanzar el momento óptimo para su trasplante.
Read more🍅 Progress and preparations at Julia Ríos’s farm: Focus on strategic crops
The second visit to Julia Ríos’s Farm of the Minka Cooperative in Florencio Varela focused on the evaluation of the state of the crops and the infrastructure, seeking to ensure an optimal open seed campaign.
Read more🌽 New Bioleft maize sowing! A key step toward the first open variety
We are getting closer to presenting the first open-pollinated maize variety developed through participatory plant breeding. In October we took a new step: we started the characterization trials in Pergamino that will allow us to describe it and share its attributes openly.
Read moreBioleft estuvo presente en el primer encuentro para conformar el Nodo Agroecológico Territorial San Martín (NAT San Martín)
El jueves 6 de noviembre se realizó en el Campus Miguelete de la UNSAM el primer encuentro con miras a […]
Read moreBioleft relaunches the Maize Growers Network with a conversation on Amancay maize
Last Monday, October 20, within the framework of World Food Day, we held the virtual conversation “Maize as a bridge: knowledge, territories, and diversity,” to share the trajectory of Amancay maize and relaunch the work of the Maize Growers Network (Red de Maiceros). More than 30 producers, technicians, researchers, students, and organizations linked to seed development and production participated, forming a diverse space for exchange and collective reflection.Participaron más de 30 productores, técnicos, investigadores, estudiantes y organizaciones vinculadas al desarrollo de semillas y la producción, conformando un espacio diverso de intercambio y reflexión colectiva.
Read moreVirtual conversation “Maize as a bridge: knowledge, territories, and diversity”
On Monday, October 20 at 6 p.m., we look forward to seeing you at a virtual conversation to share the trajectory of Amancay maize within the framework of the Bioleft Maize Growers Network (Red de Maiceros) and to invite you to be part of a new phase of this open space for seed innovation.
Read moreAlmendra Cremaschi gave a seminar for the Organic Seed Alliance
On September 11th, Almendra Cremaschi, director of Bioleft, gave a virtual seminar as part of the debate on seed intellectual property on the Organic Seed Alliance platform. The meeting was open to the community of organic, agroecological, and family farmers who produce in the United States, and other people from different parts of the world participated as well.
Read more🔬 Science and education in crisis: a critical situation we can no longer ignore
At Bioleft, we are pleased with Congress’s insistence on the University Financing Law.
We are navigating a situation that affects the present and future of thousands of people: the drastic defunding of the national scientific and technological system.
Opening Workshop for the 2025-2026 Local Tomato Campaign
Bioleft launched the 2025/2026 tomato campaign with a virtual workshop that brought together evaluators from more than 25 locations across the country. The proposal, based on open science and citizen science, reinforces collaborative recording and the circulation of knowledge to make better decisions on seed selection and multiplication.
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