About Landraces

About Landraces

Landraces are the E.U.’s proposed legal term for true native origin wild flora harvested for amenity, climate change and biodiversity. A landrace will clearly distinguish between three main EU legal terms for three identical but genetically different types of the ‘same’ named wildflower species.

Current legal term :

1. Forbes in preservation mixtures for agriculture.
2. Conservation
3. proposed, Landrace

Landrace definition. So far, it is proposed that in the E.U. a landrace is the name given in tarrif codes and taxonomy to a native plant species. Although not fully defined, the words Bio-region, region, country, landmass are being sued to clearly identify the provenance and source of the wild plants.

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An example of why the need to have different names ; The species Red Clover, a bees favorite, is a landrace in the wild. When DBN collect it from around Ireland from areas where it is deemed truly wild, we then propagate crops on our farms from those wild collections which are now considered 1st generation wild landrace. If we took cuttings and not seed, and propagated a crop it technically would by plant breeder standards, be called ‘landrace-pre’-pre-basic seed for breeders. So our crops have neither title as all our species are ‘Open Pollinated’ not bred, or certified. Which is why we need legislation to safe guard against fraud in our industry.

 

 

EC: Landraces Seed mixtures, biodiversity products of Native Species blended as a Wildflower Seed Mixture.
E.U Terms: Landraces, Part-’Conservation’ Mixture as it contains a percentage of wild meadow harvested seed along-side, crop seed and crops seeds of wild forms of species described in Preservation mixtures, alongside wildgrass of ‘Uncertified’ varieties.

The term ‘Wildform Landraces of near ’pre-pre-basic’ seeds’ would best describe each species. Mixes containing species may be defined by as ‘alike’ but not ‘preservation or conservation’

 

 

s or bred for agriculture. The European Community makes a clear distinction in legislation.

Not only can wild Clover be a fodder species for agriculture, but wild clover can be harvested in a wild meadow and only sold into a conservation project. Confused, it’s simple, the same named plant

to edit not in any order, some is same as above

In the E.U. a ‘Landrace’ means a real wildflower.

Wildflowers.ie is primary source of native ‘Landrace’ wildflowers in Ireland.

Landraces? Our Landraces are Native, Origin Irish.

We collect in very remote wild places, We propagate in our nursery
Then plant out farm crops or grow small lots in plant nursery, Perennial crops need 3 – 7 years before first harvest

E.U.  We use the E.U. term “Landrace” the legal term for non certified or geno-classified plant species found native in the wild.

Irish Landraces are native plants, native origin Irish sourced species,

Less than 5% of the plant species we collect are from unknown sources.

The wild seeds ‘landraces’ we collect while wild harvesting, we carefully set aside, propagate and develop our crops. If certified, which they are not, they would be like pre-prebasic seed used by plant breeders.

When wild harvesting, plants (leaves, flowers, fruits, roots…) are worked as quickly as possible in order to preserve all their virtues. The skill is to know when seed is ripe and how to collect it without damaging the plant.

 

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An example of why the need to have different names ; The species Red Clover, a bees favorite, is a landrace in the wild. When DBN collect it from around Ireland from areas where it is deemed truly wild, we then propagate crops on our farms from those wild collections which are now considered 1st generation wild landrace. If we took cuttings and not seed, and propagated a crop it technically would by plant breeder standards, be called ‘landrace-pre’-pre-basic seed for breeders. So our crops have neither title as all our species are ‘Open Pollinated’ not bred, or certified. Which is why we need legislation to safe guard against fraud in our industry.

 

 

s or bred for agriculture. The European Community makes a clear distinction in legislation.

Not only can wild Clover be a fodder species for agriculture, but wild clover can be harvested in a wild meadow and only sold into a conservation project. Confused, it’s simple, the same named plant