This is just a quick update of something special that
happened at Taylor’s Tiny Farm this past year – we started growing for Sow True Seed, an open-pollinated seed company based in Asheville, North Carolina.
I came to learn about Sow True while working for the North Carolina Outward Bound School. I accompanied our lovely chef to Sow True to buy plant
starts for the kitchen garden at the school. My interest in seed saving grew as
I flipped through their catalog, which was rich with advice for growing and
saving seed as well as yummy descriptions of different garden foods.
Zoom ahead to winter of last year. I was perusing Sow True’s
website for new seeds and came across their grower application, which I
promptly completed and submitted. I was ecstatic to be selected to help grow
out one of their recently acquired seed varieties, the Six Nation Iroquois Bush
Bean.
It was a fun bean to grow, although I was a bit stressed to
growing for someone besides myself. Thankfully, beans are easy and it went well
enough that I will be growing for Sow True again next year. Also, I got paid.
Do you know what that means?
We are officially a farm.
For real though, not just because I named the blog that.
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