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Welcome to Seeds for food
We are a small and independent homestead-based enterprise, located in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
Our purpose and vision is to preserve and promote the use of open-pollinated, non-hybrid, GMO free, public domain seeds – many of them rare and endangered heirloom varieties. We grow all the seeds we offer here in our gardens, and integrate seed production and seed saving into the larger context of our diversified homestead, which includes rare breeds of livestock.
Seeds are the cornerstone of our food supply and our food security. With that in mind, we encourage the use of these varieties as part of your successful food production efforts. The time has never been better for “growing your own groceries”. We also invite you to learn how to save your own seeds, and offer workshops from time to time.
We see ourselves as part of a growing movement of individuals, communities and human-scaled seed enterprises who together are actively engaged in the conservation and preservation, the promotion and use of our common seed inheritance. The disturbing trend of consolidation within the globalized seed industry in recent time has served to diminish the availability of choice for gardeners, market growers and farmers. We aim to help offer an alternative to that situation. Now - more than ever - there is a practical urgency for people to participate and engage in a new vision - protecting our seed heritage so that we have choices and options available to us for growing good, healthy and wholesome food.
Since before recorded history seeds have been food, and food has been seeds. Let us not fail to forget that ancient equation.
Our purpose and vision is to preserve and promote the use of open-pollinated, non-hybrid, GMO free, public domain seeds – many of them rare and endangered heirloom varieties. We grow all the seeds we offer here in our gardens, and integrate seed production and seed saving into the larger context of our diversified homestead, which includes rare breeds of livestock.
Seeds are the cornerstone of our food supply and our food security. With that in mind, we encourage the use of these varieties as part of your successful food production efforts. The time has never been better for “growing your own groceries”. We also invite you to learn how to save your own seeds, and offer workshops from time to time.
We see ourselves as part of a growing movement of individuals, communities and human-scaled seed enterprises who together are actively engaged in the conservation and preservation, the promotion and use of our common seed inheritance. The disturbing trend of consolidation within the globalized seed industry in recent time has served to diminish the availability of choice for gardeners, market growers and farmers. We aim to help offer an alternative to that situation. Now - more than ever - there is a practical urgency for people to participate and engage in a new vision - protecting our seed heritage so that we have choices and options available to us for growing good, healthy and wholesome food.
Since before recorded history seeds have been food, and food has been seeds. Let us not fail to forget that ancient equation.
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Contact info
Brian Creelman 222 route 112 Ouest Bishopton (Qué) Canada J0B 1G0 (819) 832-4969 |
