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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 …
Sharing Seed Stories Around the Puget Sound
Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) made appearances around the Puget Sound this spring, raising awareness of organic seed and wholesome new …
Are You Growing Purple Sprouting Broccoli?
This year we are expanding our purple sprouting broccoli trial sites around the Puget Sound. As part of this effort we're working to …
Carrot Breeders Find Promising Results at Winter Nursery
Before the official beginning of spring and 2018 field preparations in the Pacific Northwest, OSA’s Laurie McKenzie and Micaela Colley …
