Best seed providers

Adding their voice to a growing vanguard of chefs and farmers, the Bay Area Seed Interchange Library is hard at work making sure the Bay will never be without seed. Based in Berkeley, the group cites the diminishing number of small, local seed distributors as a major problem. “The majority of the world’s family-owned seed companies have been bought by multinational corporations who are not interested in creating sustainable food systems,” says the organization’s website. Its goal? To preserve traditional planting and propagation techniques: Simply donate your seeds to the “library” and “check out” someone else’s in return. Just think—the heirloom tomatoes you took so much pride in last summer might make a delicious caprese salad for someone else. ecologycenter.org/basil

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