I love High Mowing Seeds. The company has been great in the areas of high quality product, customer service and valuing the future of farming. When I was recently perusing their site, starting to fill my cart for the 2010 seed order, I stumbled across another reason to love this company.
High Mowing Seeds was involved in a lawsuit, along with the Center for Food Safety (CFS), Organic Seed Alliance and the Sierra Club, being represented by CFS and Earth Justice attorneys, to sue the USDA!!
They won! HMS, et al, were concerned with the USDA deregulating the Monsanto Sugar Beet. Sugar Beets are the source of most of the sugar in this country, and like corn and soy, Monsanto has a "Round Up Ready" sugar beet. If you are interested in reading more about this victory for food security in the US, you can do so on the High Mowing Seeds Site.
I intended to buy my seeds from them again this year, simply because I've had such a great experience, they are a small company, that is local-ish to me, so we are growing in very similar climates, but all the more reason, now, to support a company that stands up and speaks out! Thank you HMS for your efforts! Congratulatons on the win.
Are you buying seeds this year? Please consider giving your support to this great company!
You can order direct from their website, which is what I do every year...Oh how excited I get when that little cardboard box arrives, but you can also find their seeds in the following NH stores:
- Claremont - Posie's Place
- Concord- Concord Food Coop
- Hanover - Hanover Consumer Co-op
- Hollis - Brookdale Fruit Farm
- Laconia - Sunflower Natural Foods
- Lancaster - Martin's Agway
- Lebanon - Longacres' Nursery Center
- Manchester - A Market Natural Foods
- New Ipswich - Amazing Flower Farm
- Newport - Stillwater Garden Shop
- Plainfield - Edgewater Farm
- Rollinsford - Wentworth Greenhouses (the site for several of the Seacoast Eat Local Winter Farmer's Markets)