I’ve posted the Solstice Seeds catalogue before for 2017 and 2018. Now they have a website, and seeds are available year round.
Cannabis Patents
I posted a few days ago about the issue of patents on plants. Now it seems the latest victim of patents is cannabis. It also seems the problem is not uniquely European…
Passing of Kent Whealy
I received an email today with the sad news that Kent Whealy passed away last week. Kent founded the Seed Savers Exchange in 1975, and ran it for 33 years. He envisioned and supervised the development of Heritage Farm and Twin Valleys at SSE. He created all of the SSE publications, including the well known Garden Seed Inventories. His awards included a MacArthur Fellowship and a N. I. Vavilov medal from the Vavilov Institute in St. Petersburg.
The email mentioned he supported many food and conservation programs in Hawaii, where he spent winters in a house he and his wife Judy owned near Hilo.
He was a private person, and I wasn’t in contact with him. Please leave a comment if you have anything else to share.
