If any of our customers are interested in understanding a bit more about the dynamics of the global seed industry, the work of sociologist Phillip H. Howard visually illustrates who are the power players and precisely what corporations have consolidated in the past decade.

The charts speak for themselves, really. And the best action an individual could take to mitigate this centralization of the global seed market is to source your seeds from companies that resist this tendency and embrace crop breeding techniques thata are place-based and region-appropriate, climate specific, and vigorous in the face of organic farming practices. Above all, companies that believe that plant genetics should be shared, not hoarded and patented  and only available to those who can afford them.

And we are one of those companies.