Since the discovery of agriculture, the creation of vegetable varieties has been the result of peasant work. Market selections are the product of a particular relationship between plants and a given territory. It is this relationship that created an immense wealth of varieties, all adapted in fact to the same purpose: their taste! The economic reality forced the peasants to produce vegetables, which had taste and pushed well, at this place. This is what the barges wanted to buy.
The agronomic institutes of the 19th, then the 20th grade laboratories and the hybrid techniques F1 broke this equivalence. Now, farmers have lost the profession of seed enclosure, and are forced to use a globalized and standardized range of uniform varieties.
The very great chance of the Lake Geneva region, and particularly Geneva, is to have succeeded, thanks to the joint work of the banks of seeds of Changins, the Foundation Prospectrara and the seeds of countries, to preserve and maintain this inheritance. These varieties, from the maraîchers who are refugee from the 17th, such as the PlantaPorts, are a regional pride of which the thoroughbred is the best known example.
Today, the local actors of seed, conservation, agriculture of research, agriculture and others, are working on this task to rediscover these old varieties. Through tastings, presentations, cooking recipes and market gardening work, it is a question of making these vegetables again and allow local producers to cultivate them.
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