High Mowing Organic Seeds - Giving Back
Every year, High Mowing donates a huge quantity of seeds and produce. The donations end up in the hands of recipients ranging in distance from just across the driveway to places as far-flung as Haiti. These donations are an integral part of what we do and help us achieve our goal of being good stewards to our local and not-so-local communities.
Seeds
Seeds, not surprisingly, make up a large portion of our donations. This year we donated over 54,000 packets of seeds to schools, communities, and farmer training programs. Of that total, 11,000 packets went to FoodCorps, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching kids about healthy food by building school gardens and sourcing quality local food for school cafeterias. FoodCorps has been instrumental in channeling our seeds into the hands of the food system leaders of tomorrow – next season these tiny learning tools will grow in over 300 school gardens in 15 states.
Produce
As a farm-based seed company, we grow a tremendous amount of organic produce each year. We have fields for trialing new varieties, fields for breeding new varieties, fields for growing our seed crops, and fields for showcasing the existing varieties we carry – amounting to about 40 acres all together. And even though we offer an unlimited CSA to all of our staff (and the staff of several nearby businesses), we grow far more produce than we can consume. So we do our best to make sure that as little produce is wasted as possible, and donate whenever possible. We do this in three ways:
- We harvest our produce, then donate whatever isn’t taken home by staff
- We work with two organization that glean produce from our fields, Salvation Farms and the Vermont Foodbank, to harvest what we can’t
- We partner with organizations to use the fruit of seed crops after the seed is extracted
Posted On: January 9 2014
Posted By: High Mowing Organic Seeds
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I'm having trouble logging on to you donation application page. I have applied and received your seed donations for the past three years or so. The seeds have benefited the Leach Public Library's Reading Garden in Irasburg and last year also benefited the Heritage Garden (the Library's sister garden) at the Old Stone House Museum in Brownington. In addition this year, the Leach Library is sponsoring the University of Irasburg, a pop-up citizen-to-citizen month of learning. I am hoping that I would be able to gather seeds for the two gardens again this year, with some extra packets to give away at the U of I class I'm hosting for Irasburg residents, called "Seeds to Starts". I would so appreciate about 150-200 packets. I can come to your facility in Hardwick. Please let me know if and when I can come. Thank you so much for your past and future support! -Molly Veysey
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