Touch the Soil News #1930 (Feature Photo West Coast Catalogue – Courtesy of West Coast Seeds) West Coast Seeds in British Columbia reports sales are strong for their more than 1,000 varieties of organic seeds. https://www.westcoastseeds.com/ A contributing factor to more people now growing food than not in Canada is attributed to the high…
Touch the Soil News #1870 (Feature Photo – Seeds – Flickers Commons) For 50 years, Johnny’s Selected Seeds has been providing quality seeds, tools, information and service. The employee owned company are all about supporting local agriculture. You can read about the company here and visit their website below: https://cityfarmer.info/johnnys-selected-seeds-observes-50th-anniversary/ https://www.johnnyseeds.com/
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Touch the Soil News #1705 (Feature Photo – Sunflower Seedlings, CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Wayblaze gives us the story of how a British Columbia (Canada) initiative has begun to source local seed from local farmers. At stake is the diversity of food and diversity of seed sources. Today, four (4) seed firms control 56% of…
Positive Future #779 (Feature photo – Seeds – Public Domain USDA) Shareable journalist Enrique Gili brings us the story of seed libraries. Seed libraries are local initiatives to bring in local seeds and distribute local seeds. This story, about the San Diego seed library, covers an important movement as there are over 600 such libraries…
Touch the Soil News #1608 (Feature Photo – Fruit and Vegetable Seeds – CCA 4.0 International) Modern Farmer journalist Alex Robinson brings us a very interesting story – how the demand for vegetable seeds has skyrocketed this spring. The good news is that seed producers are finally getting an economic message of their importance, which…
