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OSSI continues to grow and thrive. There are now 373 OSSI- Pledged varieties coming from 36 OSSI plant breeders and sold by 46 seed company partners. It’s seed catalog season! Keep…
OSSI continues to grow and thrive. There are now 373 OSSI- Pledged varieties coming from 36 OSSI plant breeders and sold by 46 seed company partners. It’s seed catalog season! Keep…
…for small seed companies instead, and never looked back. After developing a passion for breeding new cucurbis to make up for the severe lack of varieties found in Australia, breeding…
…Adaptive Seeds, a farm-based seed company, as a way to further distribute the varieties they had collected with The Seed Ambassadors Project. Adaptive Seeds offers organic, open-pollinated, diverse and resilient…
…companies throughout the U.S. She also sells a few seed packets to local gardeners in the Treasure Valley or through the web. The wheat is ground into flour at the…
…have developed sweet corn varieties that are grown commercially on every continent except Antarctica. Bill and collaborators have developed sweet corn hybrids and open pollinated varieties under certified organic conditions…
…advocate, seed steward and plant breeder. She is co-owner of Nature & Nurture Seeds, a farm-based seed company in Ann Arbor, Michigan that provides quality, adapted, and resilient seeds for…
Claire Luby Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA Biography Claire recently completed her Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her thesis focused…
…flower seed crops on contract for seed companies nationwide. Avoca Seed produces crops on 3 acres annually in an alternate year cropping system. The farm is surrounded by extensive riparian…
…numerous cultivars and inbred lines that have been used to make commercial hybrids. These are grown by farmers throughout the world. A portion of the germplasm from his program is…
…friends and soon with Turtle Tree Seeds, a small bio-dynamic seed company. Reading Carol Deppe’s book “Breed your own Vegetables Varieties” in 1995 started experiments with the de-hybridization of a…