Organization Fundación Global Nature

Casa Rabosa

Type of ecosystem Other
Working group WG 4: Socio-territorial
Location Moixent, Valencia
Purpose of the experimentation The aim of this experiment was to determine if the waste from sorting cereals cold be a potential source for native seeds. Fundación Global Nature sow every year some plots in cooperation with Celler del Roure for recovering traditional varieties of cereals (wheat and rye) and testing their potential for bread production. The crops are managed organically and during the 2020-2021 campaign the hypothesis of using the seeds obtained in the grain cleaning process was tested due to the very low cost of obtaining such material (actually, it is free) and the aparent diversity of seeds obtained.
List of species sown Seeds obtained during 2020-2021 campaign were sent to experts for their identification. The results show that despite the great variability expected in the seed composition obtained and the very significant amount of non-native material (cereal grains represnet up to 60%), there are a few species which could be potentially interesting from the comercial perspective. However, the conslusion so far is that this leftovers obtained for cleaning ay have a potential use at farm level (grass strips for avoiding erosion), even if they contain only a low quantity of native seeds.
Protocol Protocols are detailed in he report attached informe_limpia_cereal.docx (1.0MB)
Free description (facultative) By the end of 2022, the results of the seeds obtained in 2021-2022 harvest will be available. We want to compare the diversity of seeds with the one obtained in the previous campaign, and we will also sow the material obtained (mostly cereals and leguminous species, with a 6% of native seeds; probably to be improved with material obtained in 2021-2022 campaign) in a site of the farm which is facing erosion problems.
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