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Crossing the border

Crossing the border

Seeds don’t care about borders, but governments do. Although shipping seeds from the US to Canada is pretty simple (if expensive!), the reverse is not so easy. When Clint of...

Crossing the border

Seeds don’t care about borders, but governments do. Although shipping seeds from the US to Canada is pretty simple (if expensive!), the reverse is not so easy. When Clint of...

Market Farmers Learn to Adapt

Market Farmers Learn to Adapt

by Masha Zager Most of us in the Going to Seed community are gardeners and homesteaders who growfood for ourselves and our families. When we work on adapting a crop,...

Market Farmers Learn to Adapt

by Masha Zager Most of us in the Going to Seed community are gardeners and homesteaders who growfood for ourselves and our families. When we work on adapting a crop,...

Reconnecting through Seeds

Reconnecting through Seeds

A conversation  between Julia Dakin and Valeria Esqueda.  Julia: What drew you to seeds, or to growing, in the first place? Val: After graduating, I began volunteering at a community...

Reconnecting through Seeds

A conversation  between Julia Dakin and Valeria Esqueda.  Julia: What drew you to seeds, or to growing, in the first place? Val: After graduating, I began volunteering at a community...

A garden is more than what we grow

A garden is more than what we grow

By Lowell McCampbell Above Photo:  A field of garlic sprouting in January in California When I have worked on farms or spent time around areas with large-scale agriculture, I am...

A garden is more than what we grow

By Lowell McCampbell Above Photo:  A field of garlic sprouting in January in California When I have worked on farms or spent time around areas with large-scale agriculture, I am...

Plant This: A Conversation with Rodrigo Haro Tapia

Plant This: A Conversation with Rodrigo Haro Tapia

Organization: Desmi This blog is adapted from a conversation between Rodrigo and Julia Dakin recorded at the International Farmer Seed Conference in Antibes, France in 2024.  My name is Rodrigo,...

Plant This: A Conversation with Rodrigo Haro Tapia

Organization: Desmi This blog is adapted from a conversation between Rodrigo and Julia Dakin recorded at the International Farmer Seed Conference in Antibes, France in 2024.  My name is Rodrigo,...

Local Seeds For Local Food

Local Seeds For Local Food

Jim Embry Our family came to Virginia in an enslaved condition largely out of Nigeria around 1780 or so and were later forced to move across the Appalachian Mountains into...

Local Seeds For Local Food

Jim Embry Our family came to Virginia in an enslaved condition largely out of Nigeria around 1780 or so and were later forced to move across the Appalachian Mountains into...