Velocity, Reciprocity, and Broccoli
The seed catalogs are coming in, I'm ordering with delight and with care.

Fedco Seeds
http://www.fedcoseeds.com/about_fedco.htm

is a cooperative, customer and worker-owned.

Baker Creek is owned by Jere Gettle http://gettle.org/bio.html another real person enterprise.

On the other side Seeds of Change is owned by Mars, inc. -- yep, the candy company. Semanis seeds is owned by Monsanto.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/Monsanto/seminis30405.cfm
This puts most of the seed varieties on the planet as the property of the chemical giant.

Organic growers like me often decide not to use the seeds known for high productivity because they are also high need -- they won't do well often without irrigation *and* fertilizer *and* weed killer *and* insect killers. The older varieties don't make as many marketable fruits but they can do so without as much of and sometimes any of the above -- doing well in older gardening situations.

What are we doing to prepare our children for the world of adult work? Are we supporting the sorts of business practices that we want our children to be part of or to emulate?

JulieB