Advancing ethical seed solutions to meet food and farming needs in a changing world
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.
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.
Join OSA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, MOSES, and workshop hosts PrairiErth Farm on July 1, 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.
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.
Join OSA on July 12, as we participate in the Practical Farmers of Iowa and Organic Grain Resources and Information Network’s Small Grains, Modest Gains: A Pragmatic Approach to Profitability and Sustainability field day. OSA staff will lead a workshop on managing risk through on-farm variety trailing during the afternoon session of the field day, which will also include workshops on small grains production, organic transition, and cover cropping. 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.
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.
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.
Join OSA and Farmer Field Day hosts Community Food and Agriculture Coalition and Farm Link Montana on August 15, 2018, for this field day focused on organic seed production. Fresh Roots Farm is a certified organic vegetable, small fruit, and seed farm. Farmers Karl Sutton and Darci Jones specialize in cool and warm season annual and biennial seed crops, strawberries, and a variety of vegetables. Karl will talk about producing organic vegetable seed crops and how they have made this production a featured part of their crop mix so that they have products to sell outside the growing season. Learn more and RSPV here.
Join OSA and farmers at Sylvester Manor and learn basic plant breeding and seed stewardship skills through classroom and field-based interactive activities this September. Have you ever wanted to conserve seed of your favorite varieties on your farm or garden or learn how to improve a variety to thrive in your local environment? This is a terrific opportunity to do so! Learn more and RSVP here.
Join OSA for this special New York edition of Variety Showcase! Culinary Breeding Network is partnering with GrowNYC to host the event on September 24, 2018. The Variety Showcase is an interactive mixer designed to build community between plant breeders, organic farmers, and eaters. Participants have the unique experience to taste new and in-development vegetable, fruit, and grain cultivars with the breeders that created them. Learn more here.
