A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach January 24, 2022 Owen Taylor on Ancestral Seeds

Published: Jan. 24, 2022, midnight

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As regular readers and listeners know, I've had a longtime interest in the organic seed movement, especially farm-based companies that grow at least some of the seed they sell and are proud to tell you where they source the rest. I like to know where my seed comes from.\\xa0

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Lately I've had the pleasure of getting to know a number of new-to-me companies, including Truelove Seeds of Philadelphia, whose website promises culturally important, open-pollinated seeds to people \\u201clonging for their taste of home.\\u201d Today's guest is Owen Taylor, one of its co-founders.

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With Christopher Bolden-Newsome, Owen Taylor started Truelove Seeds, which offers a diversity of vegetable, flower and herb seed from more than 50 small-scale urban and rural farmers committed to community food sovereignty, cultural preservation, and sustainable agriculture, and who each share in the sales price of every seed packet sold.

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