Support the Heritage Seed Collective

Greg Boulos of Blackberry Meadows Farms is starting a new seed bank to help preserve as many of the at-risk heritage vegetables as possible.

If you’ve visited the Farmers at the Firehouse market on Saturdays or the Farmers at Phipps market on Wednesdays, perhaps you’ve already purchased one (or more) of these heritage varieties for your garden; I bought a Sheboygan variety tomato, and I’m excited to try its fruit… it already has one green tomato growing on it!  And, I will be using the envelope provided with my plant to save its seeds and pass them on.

If you’d like to do a bit more to support the Heritage Seeds initiative, cruise on over to its Kickstarter plea and pledge financial support to the effort.  Consider perhaps joining at the member level of $100 for a plethora of prizes.  Or, perhaps you’re interested in the food tasting and farm visit available at the $250 level?  Or, what the heck, pledge twelve bucks; every bit counts.

Here’s the key: there are only 16 days left for the seed collective to raise their goal of $10,000.  If they don’t hit their goal, you don’t pay a dime (and they don’t get a dime).  As I’m writing this, they have achieved $3,682 in pledges, so they need your help.

Don’t delay.  Pledge now.

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