OSA supporter and seed systems advocate, Nash Huber, was awarded a "Sustie" at last week's EcoFarm Conference in Pacific Grove, CA. We're …
Archives for 2011
OFRF Organic Seed and Breeding Grant Recipients
Organic Farming Research Foundation approved its first round of research grants focused on organic seed and breeding as part of the Clif Bar …
Leading Organic Businesses Oppose GE Sugar Beets
Cross-posted from the Center for Food Safety Leading organic businesses and trade groups have filed a joint brief to the U.S. Court of …
We Stand United in Opposition to GE Alfalfa
We stand united in opposition to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to once again allow unlimited, nationwide commercial …
OSA Calls USDA Alfalfa Decision a Threat to Organic Integrity
For Immediate Release: January 27, 2011 Contact: Kristina Hubbard, Director of Advocacy, (406) 493-6965, kristina@seedalliance.org USDA …
NPR: A Tale of Two Seed Farmers
NPR recently visited Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seed about the GE sugar beet case. "This valley is not big enough to have genetically …
Seed Digest (January 8 – 21, 2011)
Tell USDA to Protect Organic Integrity, Beginning with Alfalfa USDA is poised to approve GE alfalfa despite the agency’s acknowledgment in …
Tell USDA to Protect Organic Integrity, Beginning with Alfalfa
As we wrote last month, USDA has completed its environmental impact statement for GE alfalfa and is poised to approve ("deregulate") its …
Mother Earth News: Interest in Local, Organic Seed on Rise
Mother Earth News recently published results from an organic garden seed survey provided to about 200 seed companies in the U.S. and Canada. …
Take a Virtual Tour of Nash’s Organic Produce (Sequim, WA)
Nash's Organic Produce is one of the most successful organic farms on the Olympic Peninsula, and a long partner in OSA's participatory plant …
Charting a Course for Seed Self-Determination
This article is featured in the Organic Farming Research Foundation's Winter 2011 Issue Bulletin. Photo credit: Judy Owsowitz In 2005, …
OFRF Issue Bulletin: “Forging a Path to An Organic Seed Future”
The following article is featured in the Organic Farming Research Foundation's Winter 2011 Issue Bulletin. The day after the State of …
