TALE of ALES #5: Crop homesteading in Alberta, and the vital role of the Faculty of Agriculture (1915 – 2023), helping the public decide which agricultural, horticultural and amenity plants they should grow – then and now

• TALE of ALES #5: Regional Plant Variety Adaptation Research (2015 – 2023), helping the public decide which agricultural, horticultural and amenity plants they should grow

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Briggs, Keith G.

• Part 1 of Tale #5 is an overview of some broad geopolitical and historical events affecting land allocation to immigrants in the early days of settlement in Alberta. It also describes some conditions and challenges that faced immigrants who wished to develop crop-based homesteads in these ‘new Albertan lands’ of the Western Canadian Prairies. In Part 2 the role of the University of Alberta is described, for meeting the crop and variety testing and evaluation needs of all Albertans throughout the Province, in the past and into the 21st Century. In Part 3 the Extension programs and roles of the University of Alberta are described for (a) the Professors Briggs and Kondra’s Regional grain crop Variety Testing Program started in the 1970’s, for (b) the University of Alberta Horticulture extension work carried out over many years, and for (c) the continuing extension work of the University of Alberta Botanic Garden, educating the Alberta public about plants and plant uses in which they have an interest, and about the Garden’s many other public functions

• Date created

  2023-08-02

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Homesteading in early Alberta Growing the right Variety Horticulture Amenity Plants Public Extension and Regional Variety Testing Service Research Results Plant Adaptation. Northerly Growing Conditions Best Variety Choices

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-x228-nn73

• License

  Public Domain Mark 1.0