Carol Deppe Varieties

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Carol Deppe Varieties

Carol Deppe is one of a handful of seed breeders who have held on to the ideal of corn as a staff of life rather than an industrial commodity. Her book, The Resilient Gardener, has shown many of us how to secure a food supply for ourselves and our communities despite limitations of space, disability, infrastructure or climate.

After earning a PhD in Genetics from Harvard and teaching at universities, Carol opted out of the academic world to pursue independent public-domain plant breeding. Carol’s priority is breeding food crops that reliably produce a complete diet even under difficult conditions, and will allow us to thrive for the next thousand years. She has written several books that give ordinary people the knowledge to breed their own adapted varieties and produce food more reliably. All of her breeding work is pledged to the Open Source Seed Initiative, and is on the OSSI board.

You can read an interview with Carol here.
You can see all of our OSSI seeds here: OSSI Open-Source Seeds
My blog post on getting the most year-round food from your garden space is here.