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 preparation for releasing the second season, we’d love to hear your feedback about the podcast, and we’re asking listeners to fill out a quick survey for us….
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…
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. We think that it is important to share the diverse voices amongst us, and sharing content does not constitute an official platform or an attempt to exclude…
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…
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…
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(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 Own our Seed we must own the seed