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01 Goldini Zucchini – Free The Seed! Podcast

01 Goldini Zucchini – Free The Seed! Podcast

Welcome to the first episode of Free the Seed! the podcast of the Open Source Seed Initiative. In this first installment, host Rachel Hultengren interviews Carol Deppe about…

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Seedy Partner Profile: Open Circle Seeds

Seedy Partner Profile: Open Circle Seeds

Our Seedy Partner Profile series profiles all of the seed companies that sell OSSI-pledged varieties – our seed company partners.  To read the first three posts in this series, refer…

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Seedy Partner Profile: Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

Seedy Partner Profile: Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

The Seed Partner Profile series profiles all of the seed companies that sell OSSI-pledged varieties – our seed company partners. Many of our OSSI-pledged varieties have been bred by…

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Seedy Partner Profile: Amkha Seed

Seedy Partner Profile: Amkha Seed

Herein lies the second post in our Seedy Partner Profile series! To review, the Seed Partner Profile series profiles all of the seed companies that sell OSSI-pledged varieties –…

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Seedy Partner Profile: BC Eco Seed Co-op

Seedy Partner Profile: BC Eco Seed Co-op

This post kicks off a new series on the blog that will profile all of the wild and wonderful seed companies that sell OSSI-pledged varieties – our seed…

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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…

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Control of Seed and Seed Sovereignty

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

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

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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