Farm Efficiency: Automatic Seeding and Weeding
By Dane Watson and Erik Havaleska Organic farming accounts for about 12% of the total agricultural area in Denmark. The number of organic...
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Dani Baker
Aug 68 min read
Evolving from Farmer to Writer to Consultant
By Dani Baker Becoming Farmers As my retirement from a professional office job grew near, I began to panic about how I would fill my...
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Alex Coroleo
Aug 66 min read
Pivoting in the Pandemic: How a Small Farm Maximized Its Impact During COVID
By Alex Coroleo (photo by Jasmine Moreano) At the height of summer, hundreds of people flock to City Green Farms in Clifton, New Jersey,...
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Chris Smith
Apr 298 min read
Cover Story: From Heirloom to Ultracross: A Journey of Collard Diversity
By Chris Smith As early as 1992, Dr. Mark Farnham, a USDA research geneticist specializing in Brassicas, noticed a severe lack of genetic...
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Lia Babitch
Apr 297 min read
A Year in Seeds
A Year in Seeds By Lia Babitch Tree shadows stripe the snow in steep hillsides as I walk to work in the bright winter sun. The cold...
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LuAnna Nesbitt
Apr 298 min read
The Story is the Seed: An Interview with Owen Taylor of Truelove Seeds
By LuAnna Nesbitt Owen Taylor is the co-founder and co-owner of Truelove Seeds, a farm-based seed company that offers culturally...
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Shelby Johnson
Apr 299 min read
Water’s Edge Farmstead Profile
By Shelby Johnson While my journey into agrarianism feels winding and solitary, it’s truly not dissimilar to many other emerging or...
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Frank Morton
Apr 298 min read
How To Grow Yourself Some Lettuce Seed
By Frank Morton If you want to try seed growing, or if you want to specifically grow a seed that is easy, valuable, and a worthwhile...
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Holli Cederholm
Apr 297 min read
How Stories and Seeds Work to Preserve Each Other: The Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project
By Holli Cederholm Which came first: the story or the seed? Bonnetta Adeeb, a founding member of the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance,...
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Darby Weaver
Apr 295 min read
How High Mowing Innovates for a Greener Future
By Darby Weaver For the last 27 years, High Mowing Organic Seeds has been growing organics. Carrying forward the inspiring work of...
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Leila Rezvani
Apr 298 min read
Growing Community: The Iraqi Seed Collective
By Leila Rezvani In 2020, motivated by their desire to deepen a connection with their ancestral land and protect its crops from...
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Bill Braun
Apr 2910 min read
Consider the Seed
By Bill Braun We would do well in these trying times to heed the wisdom of seeds. Humans and plants have been engaged in a...
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Karma Glos
Apr 294 min read
Seed Passion
By Karma Glos That each seed is a magical packet of life is not in doubt. That each seed promises a food, a flower, or a medicine is...
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PETRA PAGE-MANN
Apr 2911 min read
Sowing New Worlds: Seeds Beyond SKUs
By Petra Page-Mann (inspired by ongoing conversations with Matthew Goldfarb and many other curious humxns) Do you feel the wind in your...
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Rebecca Day Cutter
Apr 47 min read
Seed Travels
By Rebecca Day Cutter Artwork with permission by Eber Uzias Cortez Grave For 16 years, Maya Achi farmers have been traveling from...
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Brooke Fleischman
Apr 43 min read
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...
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Olivia O'Dwyer and Noah Dest
Apr 41 min read
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...
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Elizabeth Gabriel
Apr 48 min read
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...
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Mary-Howell Martens
Apr 412 min read
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...
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Elia Romano
Apr 43 min read
Introducing the new, stronger Blue River organic seed
By Elia Romano Albert Lea Seed has been in business for 100 years now, and I have been working here for 25 of those. As we wrap up the...
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