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Media Spotlight · May 25, 2017

OSA Featured in Edible Seattle

OSA’s classical plant breeding work is featured in this spring’s Edible Seattle magazine. The piece focuses on our Olympic Sweet Corn project, a participatory plant breeding effort to develop an organic sweet corn for farmers in the cool, maritime climates of the Pacific Northwest. We’re working in partnership with farmers on the Olympic Peninsula, Bill Tracy of University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Northern Organic Vegetable Improvement Collaborative (NOVIC), and the Port Townsend Food Co-op on this exciting project that’s now in its third year.

Read the full article here.

The Olympic Sweet Corn Project is one example of a contemporary approach that relies on the same classical techniques used for millennia, supported by a modern understanding of genetics, increased coordination across state and national lines, and a collaborative approach that links farmers, scientists, and produce buyers to create something that benefits everybody — including the growers and eaters of tomorrow.

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Crops: Sweet corn

Regions: Pacific Northwest

Categories: Media Spotlight

Tags: 'Olympic' sweet corn, 'Who Gets Kissed?' sweet corn, Northern Organic Vegetable Improvement Collaborative (NOVIC), On-farm research, Organic plant breeding, Participatory Plant Breeding

Cathleen McCluskey

Cathleen McCluskey is the outreach director at Organic Seed Alliance. Cathleen supports OSA communications, and coordination of regional and national outreach efforts, and is the chair of the biennial Organic Seed Growers Conference.

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