Richard Hay🌾
@harvestofhay.bsky.social
Mostly I just grow things hey🌱
Curator: Future Africa Indigenous and Orphan Crops Collection, University of Pretoria
Conservation Project Coordinator: Botanical Society of South Africa
Curator: Future Africa Indigenous and Orphan Crops Collection, University of Pretoria
Conservation Project Coordinator: Botanical Society of South Africa
Urban botanising a little population of natural Aloe marlothii X A. davyana hybrids in amongst a moerse population of Aloe davyana🌱
August 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Urban botanising a little population of natural Aloe marlothii X A. davyana hybrids in amongst a moerse population of Aloe davyana🌱
This household is having a grand old time in the kitchen at the moment!
July 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This household is having a grand old time in the kitchen at the moment!
Blows my mind that we have the technology to measure photosynthesis
April 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Blows my mind that we have the technology to measure photosynthesis
Tsenza making emails bearable (Don't say anything about my 40 million open tabs)
April 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Tsenza making emails bearable (Don't say anything about my 40 million open tabs)
Sending up the Cabbage Signal for @makenziemabryphd.bsky.social 🔦
March 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Sending up the Cabbage Signal for @makenziemabryphd.bsky.social 🔦
Luffa cylindrica fruit in the early stages of development
March 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Luffa cylindrica fruit in the early stages of development
Our Work Integrated Learning students planting out their spinach, bell-peppers, and purple sweet potatoes into the Giving Garden🌱
March 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Our Work Integrated Learning students planting out their spinach, bell-peppers, and purple sweet potatoes into the Giving Garden🌱
Yesterday our Work Integrated Learning volunteers from TUT split and packaged Egyptian walking onions (Allium x proliferum) and Zimbabwean ever-ready onions (Allium cepa 'Perutile') to distribute to 248 home and community food gardens through the ABBA Embrace Foundation's food garden campaign.
March 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Yesterday our Work Integrated Learning volunteers from TUT split and packaged Egyptian walking onions (Allium x proliferum) and Zimbabwean ever-ready onions (Allium cepa 'Perutile') to distribute to 248 home and community food gardens through the ABBA Embrace Foundation's food garden campaign.
Some incredible work from my colleague for his Culinary Arts practical demonstration turning snippets of my gardens into a vibrant salad🥗
March 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Some incredible work from my colleague for his Culinary Arts practical demonstration turning snippets of my gardens into a vibrant salad🥗
Reposted by Richard Hay🌾
A new study has explored how we can use competition and engagement to empower plant-aware students and prevent the "ticking time bomb" of botanical skills debt.
The Botanical University Challenge is much more than just a contest (@bucbotany.bsky.social). Read more 👇
bit.ly/3XtNzQw
The Botanical University Challenge is much more than just a contest (@bucbotany.bsky.social). Read more 👇
bit.ly/3XtNzQw
The Botanical University Challenge - bridging isolation and empowering plant-aware students
bit.ly
March 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A new study has explored how we can use competition and engagement to empower plant-aware students and prevent the "ticking time bomb" of botanical skills debt.
The Botanical University Challenge is much more than just a contest (@bucbotany.bsky.social). Read more 👇
bit.ly/3XtNzQw
The Botanical University Challenge is much more than just a contest (@bucbotany.bsky.social). Read more 👇
bit.ly/3XtNzQw
Reposted by Richard Hay🌾
My latest article, for @yalee360.bsky.social, about South Africa's plant poaching crisis.
Please share the link!
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Please share the link!
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A Craze for Tiny Plants Is Driving a Poaching Crisis in South Africa
South Africa’s Succulent Karoo is the most biodiverse arid region on the planet, with thousands of plants found nowhere else. But to meet a demand fueled by social media, criminal networks have been p...
e360.yale.edu
March 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
My latest article, for @yalee360.bsky.social, about South Africa's plant poaching crisis.
Please share the link!
e360.yale.edu/features/sou...
Please share the link!
e360.yale.edu/features/sou...
Scarlet rosemallow (Hibiscus coccineus) flowering in our rainwater attenuation dam. This semi-aquatic hibiscus is native to the Southeastern United States where it's found growing in wetlands such as swamps and marshes🌺
March 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Scarlet rosemallow (Hibiscus coccineus) flowering in our rainwater attenuation dam. This semi-aquatic hibiscus is native to the Southeastern United States where it's found growing in wetlands such as swamps and marshes🌺
Another one of my side quests: using horticulture for ecological restoration🌱
www.up.ac.za/news/post_32...
www.up.ac.za/news/post_32...
UP experts and volunteers spearhead first large-scale Magaliesberg aloe reintroduction | University of Pretoria
Rare-plant experts from UP are spearheading the reintroduction of thousands of critically endangered Magaliesberg aloe seedlings into the wild.
www.up.ac.za
March 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Another one of my side quests: using horticulture for ecological restoration🌱
www.up.ac.za/news/post_32...
www.up.ac.za/news/post_32...
As part of the Centenary Symposium for the University of Pretoria's Schweickerdt Herbarium and Manie van der Schijff Botanical Garden, we brought in undergrad students from the Department of Consumer and Food Sciences to create a lunch from ingredients harvested from our gardens (1/5)
March 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
As part of the Centenary Symposium for the University of Pretoria's Schweickerdt Herbarium and Manie van der Schijff Botanical Garden, we brought in undergrad students from the Department of Consumer and Food Sciences to create a lunch from ingredients harvested from our gardens (1/5)
Shameless self-promotion of the community engagement element of my work🌱
www.up.ac.za/news/post_32...
www.up.ac.za/news/post_32...
UP’s Giving Garden helps community gardeners think differently about growing edible plants | University of Pretoria
Situated in the heart of the Manie van der Schijff Botanical Garden on the Hatfield Campus, it is also a valuable space for practical training and research on edible orphan and indigenous crops for UP...
www.up.ac.za
February 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Shameless self-promotion of the community engagement element of my work🌱
www.up.ac.za/news/post_32...
www.up.ac.za/news/post_32...
Just a very wholesome day getting some of the novel crops from the collection into community gardens in Alexandra🌱
February 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Just a very wholesome day getting some of the novel crops from the collection into community gardens in Alexandra🌱
With the most ridiculous edible roots as well
January 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
With the most ridiculous edible roots as well
Some very angry little wire chompers in the irrigation control boxes today
January 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Some very angry little wire chompers in the irrigation control boxes today
No beer like a field beer 🍻
January 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
No beer like a field beer 🍻
Reposted by Richard Hay🌾
In agriculture, "there are no solutions, only trade-offs." Here, the common biodiversity vs. productivity.
"a reminder of the challenge in reconciling conflicting aims in farmland management."
Open access.
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
"a reminder of the challenge in reconciling conflicting aims in farmland management."
Open access.
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Trade-off between pollinator-wildflower diversity & grassland yields
npj Biodiversity - Trade-off between pollinator-wildflower diversity & grassland yields
www.nature.com
January 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
In agriculture, "there are no solutions, only trade-offs." Here, the common biodiversity vs. productivity.
"a reminder of the challenge in reconciling conflicting aims in farmland management."
Open access.
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
"a reminder of the challenge in reconciling conflicting aims in farmland management."
Open access.
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
9 weeks after being mailed to me and 4 weeks after planting, the first of the Adenium swazicum is flowering despite not being watered yet😬
January 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
9 weeks after being mailed to me and 4 weeks after planting, the first of the Adenium swazicum is flowering despite not being watered yet😬
Reposted by Richard Hay🌾
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
Right, @adamwelz.bsky.social recommended I give this site a try so let's give it a second chance. Customary offering of (potato) flowers upon arrival
January 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Right, @adamwelz.bsky.social recommended I give this site a try so let's give it a second chance. Customary offering of (potato) flowers upon arrival
!Nara (Acanthosicyos horridus) is spiney cucurbit endemic to the Namib desert. The species is typically found growing in the interdunes and is one of the toughest plants I've ever come across.
March 3, 2024 at 1:59 PM
!Nara (Acanthosicyos horridus) is spiney cucurbit endemic to the Namib desert. The species is typically found growing in the interdunes and is one of the toughest plants I've ever come across.