Carrots are a mainstay of vegetable diets across the country and around the world. A wide diversity of types with various colors, textures, …
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Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Supporting Local Farmers
The long awaited spring is here at last. Sunlight warms our skin and the soil, signaling the beginnings of a new growing season and the …
Keeping Communities Healthy: OSA’s Response to COVID-19
Our work at Organic Seed Alliance has always focused on hope and resilience: the hope inherent in every seed and the resilience of farmers …
Partnership with Viva Farms Yields Seed to Tortilla Project
OSA is thrilled to partner with Washington farmers and Viva Farms, a non-profit farm business incubator for aspiring and limited resource …
New Organic Tomatoes & Disease Management Tools Coming Soon
Flavorful tomatoes are a hot item in any grocery store, and are always in high demand at local fresh markets during summertime. Eaters …
‘Glean and Clean’ Event Helps Feed Our Community
As our field trials reach the end of the season, and all the crop data has been collected, OSA opens our farm to share the fruits of our …
Farm to Flavor: Culinary Breeding in Carrots
Floral. Sweet. Crispy. Carroty. Discerning eaters know that carrots don’t all taste alike, even organically grown ones. Carrots are a …
Coming Soon: New Dry Bean Varieties for Organic Growers
This blog post was written by guest contributor Travis Parker, who is a PhD candidate at UC Davis. Travis is leading dry bean breeding …
Inspiring Exchanges with European Seed Allies
The urgent need to protect and expand genetic diversity and foster ecological seed systems is a call heard around the globe. Organic Seed …
Spring at the Research Farm
OSA's research farm is experiencing a very warm, dry spring here in Chimacum, WA. In fact, we're already irrigating the fields. Spring …
Breeding Better Vegetables for Organic Agriculture
This article originally appeared in Organic Farmer (January 2019). When the National Organic Program (NOP) launched in 2002, there was …
Organic Carrot Breeding Delivers Novel Varieties, Cutting-edge Research
This article originally appeared in Carrot Country (Spring 2019). The U.S. organic industry continues to grow, with sales of organic food …
