Gardening and Heritage Societies

[Bushbaby]

Originally posted by Joan
We are also members of the National Trust and the Welsh Wild Life Society, which includes plants as well as animals...



Interesting reply you gave regarding the wheat Bushbaby.

Thanks Joan,

They way to look at that story, as it was explained to me, is what would have happened if that wild strain of wheat had been extinct? What would have happened to the world's wheat crops and the people that rely so heavily on this as a food source?

They were lucky in that they had something to bail them out, and it is very shortsighted of the commercial growers and government policy makers to not protect the full genetic diversity present in present cultivated crops.