Semillas Abiertas
On Friday, April 25, the Bioleft team held a virtual meeting with members of Chile’s Agricultural Development Institute (INDAP), a public agency under the Ministry of Agriculture. The objective of the meeting was to exchange experiences, learn about ongoing initiatives, and explore potential avenues for collaboration.
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As part of the “Food Sovereignty” course-project taught in the 6th year of UNSAM’s Escuela Secundaria Técnica, we worked with the students to explore the concept of food sovereignty as the right of peoples to define their own policies and strategies for food production, distribution, and consumption, while respecting the environment and biodiversity. In class, we reflected on how this principle is (or isn’t) manifested in our neighborhood: what foods we consume, how we access them, and what obstacles we face in ensuring safe, healthy, and sustainable nutrition.
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On Tuesday, April 15, we visited the “Las Magnolias” experimental field of the National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires (UNNOBA), located in Junín. A comparative maize trial is currently being carried out there as part of the Evaluation Network that Bioleft has been supporting for several years. This network aims to generate agronomic information collaboratively, promoting the use of open-pollinated varieties and encouraging more diverse, open, and resilient seed systems.
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From February 26 to March 1, 2025, a new edition of the Organic Seed Growers Conference was held in Corvallis, Oregon (USA), one of the world’s most important gatherings on organic seeds and agroecology. The event brought together farmers, plant breeders, researchers, grassroots organizations, and activists from around the globe to share experiences, build networks, and discuss the future of seeds
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Have you noticed that some tomatoes have a top part that looks underripe? Those "green shoulders" are actually the key to their flavor.
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On Thursday, January 16, we visited Julia’s farm in Florencio Varela. Julia is part of the Minka cooperative for agroecological seed production.
As part of the Citizen Science project, Julia grows and evaluates different heirloom tomato varieties — three linked to the “Rescuing the Heirloom Tomato” project (Aimé, La Piqui, and No Me Olvides) and four others from the same collection but harvested in 2023 (Perita No. 18, Perita No. 20, Perita No. 67, and Perita Ronita).
In addition, she conserves and cultivates more than 10 of her own tomato varieties, which she has collected and preserved over the years
On Wednesday, December 18, 2024, we visited Norberto and his family at their agroecological farm in Lucas González, Nogoyá Department, Entre Ríos.
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On Tuesday, December 17, a new workday took place at the UNSAM Community Garden, featuring significant improvements and various maintenance activities. The day included the presence of Angelly Sánchez and Sabrina Rendon, members of the “Rescuing the Creole Tomato” team from the Faculty of Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires (FAUBA).
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As part of our participatory improvement initiative, Bioleft is mapping the corn improvement projects we have supported during the 2023-2024 campaign. This work seeks to highlight and systematize the collaborative efforts of farmers, organizations, and institutions that have joined in the construction of open seed systems.
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On December 11th, we participated in a work day at the Agroecological Production Cooperative (COPA) in Guernica, where we combined a practical activity of making bocashi with monitoring the cultivation of the Ronita variety of native tomatoes, evaluated collaboratively by our colleagues from Minka.
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