The Rare Vegetable Seed Consortium's chief aim is to establish collections of lesser known and sometimes exceedingly rare food plants. Presently there are about 14,000 species and varieties in The Rare Vegetable Seed Consortium's holdings, and that number is ever climbing.
***Founders of The Rare Vegetable Seed Consortium: The Late Robert Lobitz, The Late Blane Bourgeois, Anpetu Ohankesni and The Botanical Explorer Joseph Simcox.
Survival of biodiversity depends on active growing and seed saving. As Joseph Simcox often remarks, 'In a way, the best seed bank is the very dirt in your back yard'! This is to point out that while formal seed banks do have an important role in safeguarding biodiversity, the most reliable way of ensuring seed viability is to plant it year after year. To that effect, The Rare Vegetable Seed Consortium works to actively promote season-to-season cultivation, seed saving and sharing of its holdings of rare, non-GMO, heirloom genetic material.
We at The Rare Vegetable Seed Consortium are delighted to formally kick-off online seed acquisitions. Some of the varieties offered are extremely rare, therefore, we kindly urge individuals to acquire the material only if they seriously intend to grow out and save and share the seeds, thereby ensuring rare variety survival for all of us.