Re: more of the history. Working on it, but there was a combination of wanting to save something for a post on Vavilov Day, and Anna having priorities for the last week beyond finding Russian sources for me.
Re: seed banks. I’ve been trying to figure out how to make this work. I think if we do something with plants, we have to make a reasonable effort to keep it alive over the next year, and I don’t actually care enough about plants to do that (plus January is bad for planting).
But maybe this would be a good shelling day for everyone to inventory their food and make sure they have met their own targets for shelf stable emergency supplies? It’s not perfectly on theme, but stocking up on food is reasonably connected to sieges, and it is a genuinely useful thing to do.
Re: more of the history. Working on it, but there was a combination of wanting to save something for a post on Vavilov Day, and Anna having priorities for the last week beyond finding Russian sources for me.
Re: seed banks. I’ve been trying to figure out how to make this work. I think if we do something with plants, we have to make a reasonable effort to keep it alive over the next year, and I don’t actually care enough about plants to do that (plus January is bad for planting).
But maybe this would be a good shelling day for everyone to inventory their food and make sure they have met their own targets for shelf stable emergency supplies? It’s not perfectly on theme, but stocking up on food is reasonably connected to sieges, and it is a genuinely useful thing to do.