IP Ambiguity and its Impact on Organic Seed Availability
Essay by Frank Morton. Originally published in the 2018 Wild Garden Seed catalog. So, I Bought Some Seed—What Can I Do with It? PROLOGUE: An organic variety is…
Seed Story: The Dwarf Tomato Project
SEED STORIES // Sharing origin stories from the OSSI Collection This post is excerpted from the Dwarf Tomato Project website The Dwarf Tomato Project is a cooperative breeding project…
Remembering Jim Baggett
Jim Baggett spent a lot of time on this old tractor cultivating his own vegetable breeding plots at the OSU Vegetable Research Farm. Photo: Randy Hopson (By Carol…
Cooperation
Rose Marie Nichols McGee
Song: OSSI Can Can
Lyrics by Carol Deppe
To “Own” Our Seed We Must Own Our Seed
(By C.R. Lawn) This was the Keynote address given by C.R. Lawn at the NOFA-NY Annual conference in Saratoga Springs, NY on January 20, 2017. Read it here: To…
The Dwarf Tomato Project
(By Patrina Nuske Small) The Dwarf Tomato Project This is a story about an idea that grew into a fun project. One day I was casually reading posts…
Lawn Clippings: Why OSSI?
CR Lawn In business we call them “goods”—anything we grow, produce, pack or re-pack for sale. It is a curious term, because the GNP has no screens. It…
OSSI and the Global Seed System
Jack Kloppenburg