Heart and Grain: Farmers are matchmakers between land and seed

By Mai Nguyen | There aren’t plenty of fish in the sea of heritage grain, so I started growing out and scaling up the varieties I need. To start, I requested a batch of seed from the USDA germplasm, and they gave me 25 seeds. I have one chance each year to grow them out.
My climate change plan: foster community

By Casey Holland | Sustainability isn’t just about what crops and varieties we are or aren’t growing, it is also about the connections we continue to build with members of our community.
The Art of the Seed: A Visit to the Hudson Valley Seed Library
The story of the Hudson Valley Seed Library reads much like that of a seed itself: accomplishing the extraordinary with very little. Recently, a small group of young farmers and apprentices toured the Seed Library in the last meeting of the year of the Mid-Hudson CRAFT (Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training) group, to learn about its seed-saving operations. […]