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Category: Seed Stories

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Seed Stories · October 30, 2020

Talking Seed Economics with Fresh Roots Farm


Karl Sutton is an organic farmer in Polson, Montana, who owns and operates Fresh Roots Farm with his wife, Darci Jones. Their farm …

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Seed Stories · October 21, 2020

Talking Seed Economics with Terrapin Farm


Judy Owsowitz is owner and operator of Terrapin Farm located outside of Whitefish, Montana. Terrapin Farm specializes in producing …

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Seed Stories · October 20, 2020

Talking Seed Economics with Homestead Organics


Laura Garber has been a farmer for 20 years in the Bitterroot Valley in Southwestern Montana. She is one of the owners of Homestead …

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Seed Stories · October 15, 2020

Talking Seed Economics with Wild Plum Farm


Doug Baty is one of the owners and operators of Wild Plum Farm, an organic vegetable and seed farm. Doug was one of five farm partners …

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Seed Stories · June 22, 2020

In Memory of Jonathan Spero


On April 13, the organic seed community lost a philosopher king. Jonathan Spero was an avidly curious and thoughtful farmer who committed …

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Seed Stories · June 5, 2019

Meet Your Seed Grower: Erica Kempter and Mike Levine, Nature & Nurture Seeds


Winters in the Upper Midwest are bitterly cold, and the short summer days are heavy with humidity and scorching heat. The big swings in …

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Seed Stories · January 15, 2019

OSA welcomes Heron Breen to Board of Directors


Seed producer and plant breeder Heron Breen of Fedco Seeds and Fruits of Our Labors Farm of Saint Albans, Maine, has been elected to the …

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Seed Stories · December 3, 2018

Meet Your Seed Grower: Clint Freund, Cultivating the Commons


Clint Freund, proprietor of Cultivating the Commons in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, produces vegetable seed selected for the short humid …

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Seed Stories · August 8, 2018

Meet Your Seed Grower: Ellen Bartholomew, Golden Rule


Ellen Bartholomew is always up to something. On most days she can be found tending the garden at Christ’s Church of the Golden Rule. Nestled …

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Seed Stories · June 21, 2018

Meet Your Seed Grower: Dave Victor, Garden City Harvest


Dave Victor, the farm director at Garden City Harvest’s Orchard Gardens Neighborhood Farm and a new father, has a bushy red beard and a …

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Seed Stories · May 31, 2018

Meet Your Seed Grower: Judy Owsowitz, Terrapin Farm


Welcome to our new blog series, Meet Your Seed Grower, where you'll meet the farmers who grow the seed that feeds us. This month we begin …

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Seed Stories · May 3, 2013

Farmer Seed Stewardship: Nancy Redfeather & Gerry Herbert


Nancy Redfeather and Gerry Herbert Kawanui Farm Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i Nancy Redfeather of Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i, remembers the exact …

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The recording from this week's virtual how-to training on growing organic tomato seed is now available! The webinar includes tomato biology, climatic requirements, genetic maintenance, disease management, and how to harvest clean and store tomato seed. seedalliance.org/pub…

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