Our population wheat
100 years ago, every farmer’s field was a living gene bank.
But, with the rise of industrialization, once genetically diverse, adaptive crop fields turned into monocultures of genetic uniformity. Clones that favored mechanical harvest, industrial processing and corporate profit.
Regional, local, and farm-specific varieties have largely disappeared, with the farmer all but removed from the life-essential process of selecting and maintaining the genetics in their field.
Coming Home Seeds is a small, farmer-driven seed project located in Upstate New York’s Hudson Valley - unceded Mohican Territory.
Regionally adapting upland rice
We are focused on stewarding highly diverse crop genetics in staple crops for our region.
By stewarding diverse gene pools, we can lead local crop adaptation under the extreme conditions of climate chaos.
At Coming Home Seeds, we are remembering regional, climate-smart farming practices.
Peasant farming wisdom around the world teaches us: diversification of genetics and crops mitigates risk.
With climate chaos bearing down on us, we know we have to farm differently if we hope to keep feeding ourselves & our people. Our future food system requires that we return seed & crop diversity back to the hands & fields of the folks who feed us.
COMING HOME SEEDS
At Home Farm
Coming Home Seeds is located on the ancestral homelands of the Stockbridge-Munsee, Mohican People who were forcibly removed from their land. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past, present and emerging as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable food system for all. We commit to acting as responsible stewards of this land we inhabit, sharing the fruits of our labor with the indigenous community of this land.
You can learn more about the Stockbridge-Munsee community here: https://www.mohican.com/