This article originally appeared in Organic Farmer (January 2019). When the National Organic Program (NOP) launched in 2002, there was …
OSA’s 4th Annual Community Field Day and Tasting
Join Organic Seed Alliance and explore new flavors at our Community Field Day and Tasting on Monday, October 1st, in Chimacum, Washington! …
Results: California Cabbage Organic Variety Trial, 2015
Publication date: March 15, 2018 Author: Steve Peters, Organic Seed Alliance Funder: Gaia Fund Table of Contents Introduction …
Spring Days at the OSA Research Farm
Here at the OSA research farm in Chimacum, Washington, the days are getting longer, the soil is slowly drying out, greenhouse starts are …
California
California leads the nation in vegetable seed production, yet less than half of the vegetable seed planted on organic farms in the state is …
Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest has some of the best seed producing areas in the world. For example, Brassica vegetable seed crops produced in …
New Report Helps Organic Farmers Extend Their Vegetable Season
Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) released a report today that details variety trial results for storage cabbages, storage onions, overwintering …
Vegetable Crops for Season Extension in the Pacific Northwest: 2014 – 2016 Trial Results
This report includes results from variety trials conducted on organic farms from 2014 to 2016 in multiple locations on the northern Olympic …
Tasting Cabbage and Talking Seed
OSA hosted a variety tasting and discussion as part of last week’s Farmer-Fisher-Chef Connection (F2C2) in Seattle, Washington. OSA convened …
BT CABBAGE SEED ALERT – industry moving into US production
As many of you know, the majority of transgenic crops are in commodity crops - corn, soybeans, cotton, alfalfa. In recent months the news of …
