Organic Seed Alliance

Advancing ethical seed solutions to meet food and farming needs in a changing world

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Power of Produce (POP) Club: Seed Edition

June 6, 2018
Port Townsend Farmers Market | Haines Place Park and Ride | 440 12th St | Port Townsend, WA 98368

Join OSA for seed activities as we lead a Power of Produce (POP) Club program. This weekly kids club is being offered at the Port Townsend Wednesday and Chimacum Farmers Markets. Each week the club will provide hands-on, playful learning opportunities for kids 5-12 years old. Learn more here.

Power of Produce (POP) Club: Seed Edition

June 24, 2018
Chimacum Farmers Market | Chimacum Corner Store | 9122 Rhody Dr | Chimacum, WA 98325

Join OSA for seed activities as we lead a Power of Produce (POP) Club program. This weekly kids club is being offered at the Port Townsend Wednesday and Chimacum Farmers Markets. Each week the club will provide hands-on, playful learning opportunities for kids 5-12 years old. Learn more here.

How to Conduct On-Farm Variety Trials Workshop

June 28, 2018
2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | We Grow LLC | N7975 Zimmerman Road | Westboro, Wisconsin

Join OSA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, MOSES, and workshop hosts We Grow LLC on June 28, 2018, for a workshop on identifying the right varieties for your farm. You’ll have the opportunity to tour ongoing trials and hear details about the trial from the farmer. Learn why they chose the crop they did and how they decided to design the trial. This trial location features hoop house broccoli. We Grow LLC is a produce farm in northern Taylor County Wisconsin providing pastured heritage breed pork and free-range broiler chickens along with a wide-array of seasonal vegetable grown without the use of synthetic inputs in a community supported agricultural (CSA) system. They use organic certified, non-GMO seeds. Learn more and register here.

How to Conduct On-Farm Variety Trials Workshop

July 1, 2018
2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | PrairiErth Farm | 2047 County Road, 2100th Street | Atlanta, Illinois

Join OSA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, MOSES, and workshop hosts PrairiErth Farm on July 28, 2018, for a workshop on identifying the right varieties for your farm. You’ll have the opportunity to tour ongoing trials and hear details about the trial from the farmer. This trial location features yellow potatoes for early vigor and yield. PrairiErth Farm is a diversified operation producing corn, soybeans, oats, alfalfa, and grass hay, as well as 20 acres of vegetables, fruits, and flowers. Their livestock operation includes 40 pasture-raised beef cattle, and free-range chicken for eggs and heritage breed pigs. PrairiErth farm also has an acre of restored native Illinois prairie! In 2017 Dave, Hans, and Katie were awarded the Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service Farmer of the Year Award. Learn more and register here.

Power of Produce (POP) Club: Seed Edition

July 4, 2018
Port Townsend Farmers Market | Haines Place Park and Ride | 440 12th St | Port Townsend, WA 98368

Join OSA for seed activities as we lead a Power of Produce (POP) Club program. This weekly kids club is being offered at the Port Townsend Wednesday and Chimacum Farmers Markets. Each week the club will provide hands-on, playful learning opportunities for kids 5-12 years old. Learn more here.

How to Conduct On-Farm Variety Trials Workshop

July 12, 2018
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Hughes Farm | 4031 S. US Highway 51 | Janesville, Wisconsin

Join OSA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, MOSES, and workshop hosts Hughes Farm on July 12, 2018, for a workshop on identifying the right varieties for your farm. You’ll have the opportunity to tour ongoing trials and hear details about the trial from the farmer. Learn why they chose the crop they did and how they decided to design the trial. This trial location features food-grade corn and cover crop combinations. Hughes Farm produces certified organic and conventional field crops on over 5,000 acres of owned and rented land near Janesville, Wisconsin. Learn more and register here.

Power of Produce (POP) Club: Seed Edition

July 22, 2018
Chimacum Farmers Market | Chimacum Corner Store | 9122 Rhody Dr | Chimacum, WA 98325

Join OSA for seed activities as we lead a Power of Produce (POP) Club program. This weekly kids club is being offered at the Port Townsend Wednesday and Chimacum Farmers Markets. Each week the club will provide hands-on, playful learning opportunities for kids 5-12 years old. Learn more here.

How to Conduct On-Farm Variety Trials Workshop

August 7, 2018
2:00 p.m - 4:30 p.m. | Riverbend Farm | 5405 Calder Ave. SE | Delano, Minnesota

Join OSA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, MOSES, and workshop hosts Riverbend Farm on August 7, 2018, for a workshop on identifying the right varieties for your farm. You’ll have the opportunity to tour ongoing trials and hear details about the trial from the farmer. Learn why they chose the crop they did and how they decided to design the trial. This trial location features curly kale for mid-season palatability. Riverbend Farm is an organic vegetable farm that provides produce to a CSA, restaurants, food co-ops, and schools. Farmer Greg Reynolds also saves seed from, and works to improve, varieties of several crops. Learn more and register here.

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