Program accomplishments

摘要

We envision the Greater Southwest as a place where farms and gardens, kitchens and tables, stores and restaurants are brimming with the full diversity of aridlands-adapted heirloom crops; people are keeping the unique seeds and agricultural heritage alive- and the crops, in turn, are nourishing humankind. In 2008, Native Seeds/SEARCH (NS/S) celebrated 25 years of conserving the Greater Southwest's rich agricultural diversity and history. In 1983 Barney Burns, Mahina Drees, Gary Paul Nabhan, and KarenReichhardt saw the need to do something about the vanishing agricultural diversity in our region and started NS/S with just a handful of seeds. Their vision has carried us through today, with a seed bank and retail store in Tucson, Arizona, that housesover 1,800 varieties of seeds, and a 60-acre Conservation Farm in Patagonia, Arizona, where we grow out crops to regenerate the seed bank and provide high quality seed to farmers and gardeners.