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High Mowing Organic Seeds
A 100% certified-organic seed company breeding and selling non-GMO vegetable, herb, flower, and cover-crop seed bred specifically for organic growing conditions. Founded by Tom Stearns in Wolcott, Vermont; one of the few seed companies of meaningful scale that has held a 100%-organic line rather than offering organic as a subset of a conventional catalog.
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What they do
High Mowing Organic Seeds breeds, grows, and sells vegetable, herb, flower, and cover-crop seed — every variety in the catalog is [[organic-agriculture|certified organic]] and non-GMO. The cover-crop selection is especially deep, which matters because cover-cropping is one of the load-bearing practices of organic soil management. The operation runs out of Wolcott, Vermont, with breeding work and seed-trial fields on site.
Why it’s listed
[[plant-breeding|Plant breeding]] under organic conditions produces different selections than breeding under conventional conditions — the cultivar that thrives with synthetic-nitrogen flood and routine pesticide cover is not the same cultivar that thrives in a biologically active soil with cover crops and integrated pest management. Almost every “organic” seed line in the US is bred under conventional conditions and certified organic only at the seed-production stage. High Mowing breeds for the organic conditions the seed will actually grow under — that’s a distinct kind of substrate work, and a rarer one.
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- Shares approach with: [[fedco-seeds]] · [[johnnys-selected-seeds]] · [[baker-creek-heirloom-seeds]]
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Practical
shares approach with
- Hudson Valley Seed Company two Northeast organic seed companies — High Mowing on 100%-organic performance breeding, Hudson Valley on regional-adaptation + cultural craft
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