Winter 2023
Seeds: Stories & Strategies

The Natural Farmer

Seed Travels

By Rebecca Day Cutter Artwork with permission by Eber Uzias Cortez Grave For 16 years, Maya Achi farmers have been traveling from...

An Emerging Vermont Seed Partnership

By Brooke Fleischman In response to the threats of climate change, there has been a significant increase in reforestation projects across...

The Seed: A Poem

By Olivia O'Dwyer and Noah Dest We were born in the stars as fire and dust falling to Earth as seeds scattered on barren rock We are the...

Seed Keeping at Soul Fire Farm: Interview with Danielle Palaez

I first visited Soul Fire Farm in 2017 as part of a group of 14 community food activists and youth and adult farmers. We left Ithaca at...

YOU MUST USE ORGANIC SEED UNLESS . . .

By Mary-Howell R. Martens When the USDA National Organic Program became law in 2001, organic farmers were faced with a new unwelcome...