18: Bill McDorman on Playful Plant Breeding
Bill McDorman is Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, Ketchum, Idaho. He got his start in the bio-regional seed movement while in college in 1979 when he helped start Garden City Seeds. In 1984, Bill started Seeds Trust/High Altitude Gardens, a mail order seed company he ran successfully until it sold in 2013. He authored the book, Basic Seed Saving, in 1994. In 2010, he and his wife Belle Starr created Seed School, a nationally recognized weeklong training. He served as Executive Director of Native Seeds/SEARCH from 2011 to 2014. Bill is a passionate and knowledgeable presenter who inspires his audiences to learn to save their own seeds.
Today on The Urban Farm Podcast we have Bill to talk about seeds and playful plant breeding!
Resources:
Basic Seed Saving by Bill McDorman
Bill can be contacted at Bill@seedsave.org.
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Matt Gordon from Rogue Farm Corps
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