Farming for seeds

“We have about a four acre parcel of land here that’s subdivided into a whole bunch of micro-plots, basically, where we can isolate, you know, the Black Strawberry Tomato, or the Chinese Wool Flower or a gourd or whatever it happens to be. And we can make sure that those seeds stay pure. Purity is one of the biggest things that we do here. We do a lot of purity trials, so we maintain that the seed we’re selling [to] somebody–we wanna make sure that that seed is 100% true to type.”

This week on the show we visit Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company to learn the particulars of growing for plants for seed. 

And Violet Baron talks with the owners of Lost Farm Meal Service about growing a business during a pandemic.