{"id":336030,"date":"2025-12-09T08:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/happy-birthday-msb-agricultural-biodiversity-weblog\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:04:10","slug":"happy-birthday-msb-agricultural-biodiversity-weblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=336030","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday MSB!!! \u2013 Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-42151\">\n\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" wp_automatic_readability=\"31.361022364217\">\n<p>It\u2019s the 25th birthday of Kew\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kew.org\/wakehurst\/whats-at-wakehurst\/millennium-seed-bank\">Millennium Seed Bank<\/a> (MSB) at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/hpVnHRmcLSR4q7fP7\">Wakehurst<\/a> in West Sussex. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42157\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agro.biodiver.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4096px-Millennium_seed_bank_551-2-scaled.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/agro.biodiver.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4096px-Millennium_seed_bank_551-2-450x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-large wp-image-42157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agro.biodiver.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4096px-Millennium_seed_bank_551-2-450x199.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/agro.biodiver.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4096px-Millennium_seed_bank_551-2-300x132.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/agro.biodiver.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4096px-Millennium_seed_bank_551-2-768x339.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/agro.biodiver.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4096px-Millennium_seed_bank_551-2-1536x678.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/agro.biodiver.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4096px-Millennium_seed_bank_551-2-2048x905.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\"\/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patche99z, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https: creativecommons.org=\"\" licenses=\"\" by-sa=\"\" 3.0=\"\">, via Wikimedia Commons<\/https:><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Understandably, it\u2019s getting a lot of \u2014 very well-deserved \u2014 coverage. I\u2019ll link to some of the more interesting pieces as they come out over the next few days.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There\u2019s a podcast hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/news-and-activity\/2025-10-20\/the-king-joins-podcast-unearthed-the-need-for-seeds\">King Charles<\/a>, no less.<\/li>\n<li>The Guardian\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/audio\/2025\/oct\/21\/the-seed-bank-storing-the-planets-future-podcast\">podcast<\/a> is shorter and less cool but ok.<\/li>\n<li>Cate Blanchett is appearing in that royal podcast, as well as various more plebeian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cwy7ekl4yl8o\">interviews<\/a>. She\u2019s the MSB\u2019s first ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kew.org\/about-us\/press-media\/cate-blanchett-ambassador\">ambassador<\/a>. She was recently featured, along with Wakehurst, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseandgarden.co.uk\/gallery\/cate-blanchett-kew-wakehurst-ambassador\">House &amp; Garden<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Economist<\/em> has a long piece about seed collecting for the MSB in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/interactive\/science-and-technology\/2025\/10\/15\/how-to-save-madagascars-dwindling-forests\">Madagascar<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>RE:TV has produced a cool <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1128216180\">video<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>The BBC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/videos\/cly9kpkj1ylo\">video<\/a> is shorter and less cool but ok.<\/li>\n<li>Samara, the International Newsletter of the Millennium Seed Band Partnership, has a very comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kew.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-10\/16500-Samara-newsletteranniversary-edition_ACCESSIBLE-1.pdf\">anniversary edition<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here\u2019s to the next 25!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t <!-- .entry-footer -->\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the 25th birthday of Kew\u2019s Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) at Wakehurst in West Sussex. 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