Description

One of the most impactful workshops of the 8th TMG REAG Soil Life Conference is now available on video! Over two days, French farmer Jean-François Berthellot delivered an in-depth, practical knowledge session that was met with extraordinary interest from the attendees on site.

This material was not included in the official recordings of the conference, as only the presentations from the lecture halls were uploaded to that platform. Thus, even those who had bought tickets or purchased the lecture package separately could not view it.

However, this two-day, highly informative workshop is now available to all interested parties!

Contents of the package:

📅 17.01.2025 - Friday workshop
The state of wheat diversity, seed availability, redefining diversity - a community case study

📅 18.01.2025 - Saturday workshop
Development of selection criteria, methodology of selection to achieve the desired results

Jean-François Berthellot 🇫🇷

He comes from a peasant family and after his agricultural studies, he and his wife started bio/biodynamic farming in 1983. They started growing vegetables, then switched to arable crops, and soon they were processing their own grains, first into bread and then into fresh dough in the farm's bakery.

Since its foundation in 2003, he has been actively involved in the development of the national organisation Réseaux Semences-Paysannes (Peasant Seed Network), of which he has been a member of the Board of Directors for more than 15 years. During these years, he was actively involved in several European participatory breeding programmes with the team of the National Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research (INRAE). The aim of these programmes was to select dynamic evolutionary populations, which today, for example, form the basis of the cereal mixtures he sows.

Its bread is high in nutritional value, healthy and made from a seed mix that is well adapted to both its own and the local environment and growing practices.