Operating on nearly 900 acres in Decorah, the Seed Savers Exchange preserves plant varieties by saving and sharing seeds – and their stories. Since 2000, local musicians have lent their talents to ...

Natalie Aird, seed bank inventory coordinator at Seed Savers Exchange, organizes packets in a facility at the organization's farm in Decorah, Iowa. Often described as the Nobel of food and agriculture ...

Mike Bollinger of Decorah, Iowa, was recently named as executive director of Seed Savers Exchange by its board of directors. Bollinger has served on the board of Midwest Organic and Sustainable ...

DECORAH, Iowa — If you head toward northeastern Iowa, through rolling hills and winding streams, you'll find Heritage Farm, 890 acres where seeds reign supreme. At the end of a gravel road at the farm ...

From seed vaults to neighborhood seed libraries, there is a wide range of scopes, methods and locations for ensuring that the world’s plant species are viable into the future. Seed banks and seed ...

Generations of Indigenous peoples worldwide worked for thousands of years with wild plants to produce the foods that sustain us today. Seed is the first link in the food chain, a 10,000-year-old ...