Canadian Organic Vegetable Improvement CANOVI

Organization: CANOVI

Location: , Canada

Biography

Canadian Organic Vegetable Improvement (CANOVI) is a collaborative project initiated in 2018 by the UBC Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, and the Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security. CANOVI aims to contribute to the resilience and growth of Canada’s organic vegetable sector through the characterization and development of certain varieties that excel in Canadian organic farming systems. The CANOVI team works with regional farming organizations to coordinate on-farm variety trials where farmers generate and share data about regional variety performance. This project provides farmers with relevant information on commercial variety performance, and data from the on-farm trials contribute to a broader understanding of crop-environment interactions. Since 2018, over 100 farmers have evaluated over 50 vegetable varieties, including bell peppers, radicchio, rutabaga, and lettuce varieties. SeedLinked variety trial software (https://www.seedlinked.com/) has been used to collect variety performance evaluation data from farmers across Canada, as well as provide farmers real-time access to such information.

OSSI Pledged Varieties