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Location:
One mile east of Corvallis
Providing
the Co-op since 1989 with: Romanesco Broccoli, seeds,
flowers, succulent plants and yacon
Farming
practices: Certified Organic
Other
crops grown (varieties not included): Strawberries, oca,
chocho, topotopo, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, kales, brussel
sprouts and winter squash
Acreage
farmed: Two and a half
Crew
size: Two, with occasional volunteers
Farming
since: 1989, gardening since 1973
Products
used to control weeds, pests and pathogens: Manual and
tiller weeding, picking slugs and snails by hand and using
certified organic amendments
"One
day while putting the internal pulp and seed from a Buttercup
Winter Squash into the compost bucket, Mushroom realized he
could save the very seeds he was tossing out, completing the
cycle started from the foodplants he and his family had grown
in their backyard garden.
From the onset we were Organic. We were hip that poisoning
the earth with 'cides and synthetic fertilizers was not the
way to abundance, goodness and biodiversity. At first we turned
the land by hand, double-deep digging, by choice. Later on,
tillers and tractors came into our lives. Persistently we
collected and amplified seed stocks of the best heirlooms
that came our way.
Peace
Seeds, initially a 'Planetary Gene Pool Service' and now a
'Planetary Genome-Pool Resource and Service,' was born from
the dream of peace and goodness for everyone, the need to
provide a way to conserve biodiversity, and from humanity
allowing the ongoing destruction of the biological world.
After
Seeds of Change bought the mail order business of Peace Seeds,
turning it into Deep Diversity, Al began earnestly to breed
for the public domain as part of a program to provide meritable
new introductions based on nutrition and originality. All
our seeds are bred using classical genetics, giving us and
the gardening public open-pollinated, true-breeding lines.
We
have gardened in the Willamette Valley for sixteen years.
It has been our good fortune to lease 2.5 acres with deep
and fertile soil and abundant water.
We
continue to work for Peace, overcoming and persisting through
our own frailties and lack of insight, growing further into
breeding for the public domain, selecting and developing nutritionally-improved
cultivars, and engaging kinship gardens wherever and whenever
possible, promoting gardening, conservation, organics and
biodiversity."
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Peace
Seeds