Uprising Seeds is a small family run certified organic seed farm and the culmination of years of fresh market farming, variety trialing, seed production and breeding work, and most importantly, a decades-long love affair with food and its power to bring people together. Our ideal vision of seed sustainability involves farmers and gardeners as the stewards of the varieties that they depend on. We are therefore committed to strengthening the public commons of seed genetics by working to preserve and improve open-pollinated varieties keeping biodiversity strong through adaptability and resilience.
The skier and farmer in me are always in tension with one another this time of year. Sunny and mid 50s the last several days has the farmer felling good this week. Over an acre of ground worked up and signs of the season all around the farm. Broccoli di Basano tardivo heading up, Russian frills kale...
“Gusto Italiano” seeds are now available in the shop! For those of you who haven’t heard about it yet, we are very excited to introduce a new collaborative project between Uprising Seeds, the Culinary Breeding Network, and northern Italian vegetable breeders, Smarties.Bio. The project was born...
Can we talk about leeks for a second? It's starting to be planting time and our feed is blowing up with pictures of rapidly filling greenhouses. People who have followed us for a while know we are big proponents of not pushing crops on the early end of the season. I havent personally sown a thing...
A reminder from exactly one year ago.
**Action Alert for Washington State residents**Until recently, by law, agricultural workers in Washington state were denied overtime pay. This agricultural worker exemption to labor law had been on the books for 60 years, dating back to agricultural exploitation in the south, but was finally...