Market Farming

[Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>]

On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Mike Rock wrote:

> Who owns them now?  There was some shakeup last year but I don't  
> remember the details.
>
> Mike
To the best of my knowledge they still own themselves. There was a  
shakeup several years ago (not last year) that resulted in evicting  
one of the co-founders; the other co-founder, and most of the people  
who'd been on the board for years, are still there. I was never able  
to figure out exactly what happened; it sounded as if much of the  
problem was a personality dispute.

The person who was evicted also claimed that, in putting seed in the  
Svalbard depository, the strains were made vulnerable to accession by  
large seed companies; but those companies could access the strains  
easily anyway, as they'd only have to have an employee join the  
exchange as an individual and request samples. I don't see any way to  
block that which wouldn't shut down the exchange.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale