Truckee Meadows Seed Alliance

THIS SATURDAY!

I'm pretty sure they'll grow in our zone! 🍩🌱🍩

To celebrate the first day of April we are offering some new, exclusive seeds on our website! Happy Growing everybody! ;)

LOVE THAT KEEPS GIVING! 💚🌱💚🌱💚
(If you save the seeds!)

You really don't! 😁

😂

I know, right? ;-)

TALK ABOUT YOUR MICRO-CLIMATES...
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China Grows the First Seed on the Moon It's the first plant to ever germinate on another world

“These four firms are now estimated to control over 60% of global proprietary seed sales.”
• Corteva – from a Dow/Dupont merger
• Chemchina – which acquired Syngenta in 2016
• Bayer – which acquired Monsanto in 2016 (who then had to sell their seed divisions to: )
• BASF in 2018 (to satisfy antitrust regulators)

While this (article) is about Big Ag and Big Food companies, it is also why we grow our own and SAVE SEEDS (especially Heirlooms). 🌱

Global Seed Industry Changes Since 2013 Recent years have seen the “Big 6” agrochemical/seed firms combine into a Big 4. These four firms are now estimated to control over 60% of global proprietary seed sales.

SAVE YOUR SEEDS!
From back in the day when our government cared about preserving the genetics of our food crops, rather than siding with Big Ag.
Quite the project, then and now, and such wonderful art!

Over 100 Years Ago, the US Government Commissioned 7,500 Watercolor Paintings of Every Kind of Fruit in the Country Parker Higgins is obsessed with old fruit pictures. A self-described artist and activist, Higgins taught himself to code while...