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Category: Field Notes

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Field Notes · September 29, 2011

OSA Receives Award for Excellence


OSA was recently honored during an El Pomar Foundation Awards for Excellence ceremony in Black Hawk, Colorado. We received the Robert V. …

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Field Notes · September 7, 2011

OSA Board Member Receives National Award


We are thrilled to share that OSA board member Fred Kirschenmann of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture will be honored by the …

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Field Notes · July 24, 2011

Seed Digest (July 8 – 22, 2011)


OSA’s Role in Building Organic Seed Systems According to a 2010 nationwide survey organic farmers are faced with a seed market that neither …

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Field Notes · July 20, 2011

OSA’s Role in Building Organic Seed Systems


Cross-posted from Seedstock.com According to a 2010 nationwide survey conducted by the Organic Seed Alliance (OSA), organic farmers are …

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Field Notes · July 8, 2011

Seed Digest (June 25 – July 8, 2011)


Heirlooms of Tomorrow OSA is often asked which seeds are appropriate for the new agricultural systems that many of us are developing: …

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Field Notes · July 7, 2011

Heirlooms of Tomorrow


Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) is often asked which seeds are appropriate for the new agricultural systems that many of us are developing: …

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Field Notes · June 27, 2011

Seed Stirrings in the Southeast


Agricultural leaders from the Southeast recently convened to lay the groundwork for strengthening the region’s organic seed …

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Field Notes · June 24, 2011

An Open Letter from Dr. John Navazio


As a geneticist and plant breeder who specializes in breeding crops that are adapted environmental stresses using classical plant breeding …

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Field Notes · June 23, 2011

Chef Dan Barber: Why Plant Breeders Matter


Our favorite part of this Driven by Flavor interview with Chef Dan Barber of Blue Hill at Stone Barns starts around the 44 minute mark. …

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Field Notes · June 22, 2011

New OSA Classes and Cultivars Underway


Organic Seed Alliance Publishes Seed Production Tutorials OSA’s seed production tutorials are now available! These multi-media tutorials …

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Field Notes · June 21, 2011

A Summer Greeting from OSA’s Executive Director


Today we welcome summer and bid adieu to one of the coolest and wettest springs on record here in the Northwest. While our changing …

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Field Notes · May 14, 2011

Seed Digest (April 30 – May 13, 2011)


Resilient Food Systems Begin with Locally Adapted Seed The front page story in today’s (May 13) USA Today about the “high cost of weather” …

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