Genetic Heritage Ireland has endeavoured to promote the conservation of traditional Irish cereal varieties. With the financial support of the Department of Agriculture a number of collections of wheat, barley and oats of Irish origin have been acquired [...]
Research
Genetic Heritage Ireland
Date:24 November 2009
ISSA Grain Project – by Michael Miklis, ISSA
Date:24 November 2009
Report 2002
It seems that the Heritage Grain Project reached its goal: to locate, repatriate and propagate cereals of Irish origin and store them in the IGRCT Gene bank.
Success!
On a personal level I am very delighted to have been [...]
Recovering Traditional Native Grains
Date:24 November 2009
As the mechanisation of agriculture became more and more widespread in Europe, and grains suited to the new farming methods, rather than local conditions, ousted native varieties, most countries established collections of their native grains.
Such a collection was [...]
Traditional Irish grains (images)
Date:20 October 2009
Michael Miklis in Piltown, Kilkenny, initiated this project. Suffice it is to say that Michael, over the years, has returned to production an irreplaceable Irish resource. More Irish native varieties are being tracked down worldwide. [...]