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Free the Seed! podcast listener survey
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Free the Seed! podcast listener survey

Has listening to Free the Seed! inspired you to start a plant breeding project of your own, or to learn more about the vegetable varieties you eat? In…

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IP Ambiguity and its Impact on Organic Seed Availability
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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…

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Control of Seed and Seed Sovereignty
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Control of Seed and Seed Sovereignty

PARTNER POST // SEED AMBASSADORS PROJECT Please note that the open source seed community is a diverse and passionate group, and we may not agree on absolutely everything….

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Seed Story: The Dwarf Tomato Project
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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…

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Remembering Jim Baggett
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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…

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What is an OSSI Pledged Variety?
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What is an OSSI Pledged Variety?

Claire Luby

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Cooperation
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Cooperation

Rose Marie Nichols McGee

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Thirty-three Great Open Source Organic-Adapted Vegetable Varieties
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Thirty-three Great Open Source Organic-Adapted Vegetable Varieties

Carol Deppe

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Song: OSSI Can Can
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Song: OSSI Can Can

Lyrics by Carol Deppe

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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…

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