Organic Seed Alliance Turns Ten

Back in the 1970s a network of farmers from the north Olympic Peninsula formed a non-profit to serve as a marketing platform for the organic vegetable seed they were growing and saving. They called their enterprise the Abundant Life Seed Foundation, and worked in close collaboration to develop new varieties of vegetables that were well-adapted to local conditions and then sold them through a catalogue until, about ten years ago, their store house burned to the ground, destroying their inventory.

But a phoenix rose from the ashes in the form of the Organic Seed Alliance, which this week is celebrating its tenth anniversary.  The OSA no longer sells seed, but the continuing work to develop better local varietals, to train farmers to save seed, to monitor the spread and diversity of organic seed, and to advocate for open sourcing of plant genetics has brought the organization to national prominence.

Organic Seed Alliance Turns Ten
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