For the past few years, the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT has been building a beautiful, spacious, up-to-date, energy-efficient building to house its genebank on its research station at Palmira, Colombia. The old building was just no longer fit for purpose. Future Seeds will be inaugurated next week, on 15 March, and it’s already been getting some attention in the press, which I’m sure will ramp up over the next days. Watch out for more on the Alliance’s social media. One of the fun things the genebank is involved with, and which will no doubt be highlighted during the celebrations, is a collaboration with X’s Project Mineral on the robotic characterization of bean varieties in the field. Congratulations to all at Future Seeds, and very best wishes for the, well, future.