Craig Boychuk
In this episode
Craig Boychuk is a fourth generation Ukrainian Canadian who lives and farms on his great grandparents’ homestead in Treaty 4 territory, Saskatchewan. In this episode he talks about the ups and downs of launching his new seed farm and company, No Coast Seeds; why he focuses on growing OSSI pledged varieties; and his aspirations for new plant breeding projects and for his company in the future.
- No Coast Seeds
- The Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI)
- OSSI’s podcast Free the Seed!
- Jim and Rachel Ternier of Prairie Garden Seeds
- Craig references “Tierra and Iris” of The Bauta Family Initiative.. Iris Vaisman is the Executive Director of Organic Alberta. Tierra Stokes, at the time, was the Regional Coordinator for the prairie region. That position is now held by the equally wonderful Sarah Preston.
- Seed Worker Organizing
- OSA is Organic Seed Alliance, which hosts the Seed Growers Conference in Oregon OSSI’s podcast Free the Seed!
- Young Agrarians
- Experimental Farm Network
- Frank Morton
- Carol Deppe and her book How to Breed your own Vegetable Varieties
- Joseph Lofthouse
- Adaptive Seeds
- Seed Savers Exchange
- CANOVI (carrot trials, radicchio, heat tolerant lettuce)
- Steph references in this episode that her grandmother, Lois Armstrong, has greatly influenced her relationship with seeds. Steph and Lois recorded a podcast episode in 2021. Find it HERE.
- Tiny Monster Garden
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Zucchini Surprise
