IP Ambiguity and its Impact on Organic Seed Availability

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 born, 1.0 ‘Sweet 100 F1’ was a legendary tomato that earned its reputation during the 1980s. Alan ‘Mushroom’ Kapular, legendary organic breeder and seedsman and one of…

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 initiated by Craig LeHoullier and Patrina Nuske-Small with the goal of creating delicious tomatoes of all flavor and size variations on compact, easy-to-maintain dwarf tomato plants.The Dwarf Tomato…

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 Deppe) I write to mark and honor the passing of James Baggett, Oregon State University vegetable breeder extraordinaire. Jim retired in 1995, and passed away on January…