Seeds of Change

Seeds of Change is an organic seed and food company owned by Mars, Inc. Until summer 2010, the company was based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and producers of a line of processed organic foods including pasta sauces and salad dressings. Seeds of Change was founded in 1989, as a seed company specializing in organics by Gabriel S.M. Howearth. The company devotes 1% of its net sales toward sustainable organic farming initiatives. Its products do not contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and are not irradiated.

Research farm

The Seeds of Change Research Farm and Gardens were founded in 1989, in Gila, New Mexico. In 1996, the Research Farm moved north to a site closer to the company's Santa Fe offices. The farm includes over a thousand varieties of plants on six acres of land originally cultivated by the Tewa people on a flood plain along the Rio Grande in El Guique, New Mexico. The farm is certified organic by Oregon Tilth.

In August 2010, Mars announced that it would close the El Guique farm and move some management to Los Angeles. A final tour of the farm was provided on Saturday, August 14. A spokesperson for Mars indicated the closure was due to a "strategic shift" and that not all the employees would retain their jobs.

Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind

Seeds of Change: Five plants that transformed mankind is a 1985 book by Henry Hobhouse, formerly a journalist for The Economist, News Chronicle, Daily Express, and the Wall Street Journal, consultant to the Quincentenary of Columbus Exhibition, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, and Chairman of the Rerstmoceux Science Centre. Seeds of change attempts to give an insight on how mankind's discovery, usage and trade of sugar, tea, cotton, the potato, and quinine have influenced history to make the world that we know. In the second edition of the book, Seeds of Change: Six plants that transformed mankind, he adds the coca plant to the list.

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References

Preface to the book

Seeds of Change (disambiguation)

Seeds of Change may refer to: