seed savers exchange 2013 annual report

1Seed Savers Exchange 2013 Annual Report

A non-profit organization

seed savers exchangeSaving and sharing seeds since 1975

2013 annual report

2 Seed Savers Exchange 2013 Annual Report

Our mission is to conserve and promote America’s culturally diverse but endangered garden and

food crop heritage for future generations by collecting,

growing, and sharing heirloom seeds and plants.

Thanks to the support of our dedicated members all over the world, Seed Savers

Exchange continues to lead the grassroots movement to save and share seeds.

As of 12/31/1313,209 members

1,343 lifetime members (35 new lifetime members in 2013!)

Members are in 31 countries, all 50 US states, and

6 US territories

Cover photo: Lima 187 ‘Bordman’: family heirloom from the Durey family of Iowa, who obtained it from a neighbor, Mrs. Bordman in the 1920s. Listed in the 2014 Yearbook by IA SSE HF.


Dear Supporter of Seed Savers Exchange,

As a gardener and seed saver – and a Seed Savers Exchange member since 1988 – I am proud of the direction the organization is heading. Starting out in 1975 as a grassroots pioneer in the seed movement, it has grown into a recognized conservator of heirloom and open-pollinated seeds.

In 2015, Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) celebrates a landmark, our 40th anniversary. Forty years ago very few people knew what an “heirloom” variety was. Today, chefs across the country build their menus around rare, great tasting vegetables; seed companies that once offered only hybrid varieties see the demand for heirlooms and offer them for sale in their catalogs; and gardeners fight the advance of GMO technology the best way they know how: by saving seeds and growing them out again. This is Seed Savers Exchange’s impressive legacy. But there is still much to do.

In this annual report, you will read about our efforts to prepare for the next 40 years. We have assembled a highly professional staff and invested in new technology that allows us to gather and analyze data on the more than 20,000 varieties in our collection; implemented science-based protocols for the management of our collection; and made a commitment to grow the next generation of seed savers with the development of a new Online Seed Exchange. These efforts will ensure that our gardening heritage will be available for generations to come.

Seed Savers Exchange’s success is due to our community of supporters – seed savers, members, gardeners, volunteers and donors – people like you, who believe in our mission to conserve and promote America’s culturally diverse but endangered garden and food crop heritage.

As chairman, I know I speak for the entire board of directors in thanking you for your many contributions to this important work.

With sincere appreciation,

Keith Crotz

Chillicothe, Illinois


Seed Savers Exchange completed the first phase of a major project to improve the scope, function and significance of the seed exchange. A new online home was developed and launched as part of an effort to ensure the seed exchange is more accessible, easier to use, and more powerful in its ability to connect seed savers across the country and around the world.

The major accomplishments as part of this first phase include: much-needed changes to the database that will allow us to capture more data, more consistently; the reincorporation of the Flower and Herb Exchange; restructuring of plant types to make them more intuitive; online tools to make the exchange database more visual, searchable and modern; year-round interaction; and instant communication. Improvements to the new Online Seed Exchange (OSE) are ongoing.

Online Seed Exchange Implemented


exchange. seedsavers .org


Accessions Policy Adopted to Guide the CollectionThe Board of Directors approved an Accessions Policy for the Preservation Collection. Developed with input from committee and feedback from gene bank experts, SSE advisors and members, it is the first step in refocusing the collection on SSE’s mission. The policy will provide a framework through which to evaluate donations, allowing staff to focus resources on those varieties with a proven significance to America’s gardening heritage. To read more about the Accessions Policy, visit: seedsavers.org/Accessions-Policy.

Fifty new varieties were accepted into the Preservation Collection, contributing greatly to its already stunning range of genetic biodiversity. Their unique and rich stories added substantially to SSE’s growing body of cultural history. Look for these exciting additions in the Online Exchange and Yearbook in the near future: ‘Feaster Family Heirloom’ mustard, ‘Conti’s Marconi Rampicante’ bean, ‘Smith Family Cobb’ melon, and ‘Boatwright’ Tomato.

Photo top right: ‘‘Rufener Yellow’ (Accession 103599), a family heirloom bean brought to America by Swiss immigrants in the 1800s, first offered in the 1982 Yearbook. Photo bottom right: ‘Feaster Family Heirloom’ mustard (Accession 131798) shares an approximately century-old history with the Feaster family.

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Accessions in 2013


A Database for the FutureSSE completed a three year project to update and expand the capabilities of the collection database. The database is the digital archive of the department’s work over the last four decades. The new database will facilitate sharing collection information with members as SSE increases its online presence with the Online Seed Exchange. (exchange.seedsavers.org)

Information coded into the database includes:

• the health of millions of seeds

• the histories of accessions

• the locations of 125,000 inventory records

• data on 175,000 trait evaluations

• activities for 17,000 grow-outs


PrESErvAtIOn FIElD WOrk: Managing the Seed and Plant Collection

Activities performed by the Preservation Department focus on maintaining the physical inventory (seeds, tubers, rhizomes, cloves, and trees) and information (historic documents, stories, and evaluations) about the more than 20,000 varieties held within the Seed Savers Exchange collection— the largest publicly accessible garden variety collection in the United States. Our staff adhere to the highest standards of biological and cultural preservation practices to ensure the future of the varieties they tend.

Evaluation ProgramOur evaluation program continued in its fourth year as an important link between maintaining varieties at Heritage Farm and getting them into the hands of gardeners, chefs, and farmers. We collect data on each variety’s traits throughout its life cycle, including culinary usage, plant height, flower color, days to maturity, and fruit size.

Grew

1,115 heritage varieties of 40 different

crops

Planted

40,000 transplants & nearly

20,000 seeds in

24 gardens

SSE staff recorded 46,500 evaluation descriptors on 850 different accessions


Contributions to the ExchangeThe number of varieties listed by SSE (better known to members as IA SSE HF) in the Exchange grew to 2,431. Samples of 953 seeds, scion wood, and tubers were distributed to members.

long-term, Off-site StorageEach year, Preservation seed regenerations are sealed into foil packets and placed in our seed vault for safe keeping and distribution to members. Part of SSE’s long-term preservation strategy also includes sending representative samples of varieties to other facilities as an insurance policy against disaster at Heritage Farm. Samples of 364 varieties were deposited at Svalbard in February 2013.

Potato tissue CultureSSE is collaborating with researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who eradicate viruses and back up SSE’s potato collection keeping it safe in case of an emergency. SSE continues to expand the evaluation process and document the histories of our potato varieties. Future goals for the collection include DNA fingerprinting and offering more virus-free tubers to members.

723 POtAtO vArIEtIES

were propagated in

8,142 test tubes

and 36 varieties were offered to members

in the Yearbook as virus-free potato tubers


Historic OrchardsSSE has continued its commitment to finding, preserving, and sharing heritage apple trees with the addition of 350 new varieties to orchards at Heritage Farm. Varieties have been rescued from endangered orchards in Washington State and regionally significant varieties like ‘Iowa Beauty’, ‘Iowa Blush’, and ‘Snow of Iowa’ have been added to the collection. SSE has also identified sources for varieties ‘lost’ to the commercial trade like ‘Delavan’s Red Winter’, ‘Russian Jumbo’, and ‘Cresco’, which will be grafted and planted at Heritage Farm in the 2014 season.

Grafted

1,462 new apple trees as successors to varieties in the

collection and as new additions


“Every seed does have a story, but it’s up to us to be the voice and tell it,” explains SSE Co-founder Diane Ott Whealy.

Tracking down the far-flung histories of priority accessions required staff and volunteers to use letters, emails, and phone calls to and from seed stewards to build narratives for 165 accessions. These seed histories help bring the American gardening experience to life and illustrate the many regionally and ethnically diverse communities represented in SSE’s collection.

Bert Deane and family of Leeds, Maine. Although the ‘Bert Deane’s Baking Bean’ has been in the SSE collection since it was donated in 1981, it wasn’t until 2013 that this picture and information was collected from Bert’s descendants through the current residents of Bert Deane’s farm.

M-GEN is a citizen science project that engages members in the Collection Evaluation Program in order to generate profiles of how varieties perform and taste across the US. Participants objectively (productivity metrics, photographic documentation) and subjectively (culinary quality, relative performance, overall impression) characterized each cultivar’s performance to gain an understanding of how they perform in different environments. The results were compiled and shared with members. The detailed feedback allows SSE to identify regionally adapted varieties, as well as the culinary preferences of gardeners in different parts of the country.Photo at right: Lettuce documentation by M-GEN grower Patricia Larenas of California

In 2013

74 members

from Alaska to Florida grew

out 15 varieties of bean, corn,

lettuce, mustard, pepper,

and tomato in their home gardens

for M-Gen

the Collection Origins research Effort (COrE)

Member-Grower Evaluation network (M-Gen)


Since its inception 15 years ago, the Commercial Seed House has become critical to SSE’s growth and success. It publishes and mails a beautiful 100-page seed catalog to customers each year and makes it available online. It manages the growing, packaging, sales and shipping of 600+ seed varieties and contributes to SSE’s mission in two ways: by helping to raise

revenue to support our non-profit conservation work, and by getting heirloom and open-pollinated varieties into the hands of many capable growers, chefs, farmers and breeders.

At one time the ‘Mamie Brown Pink’ tomato could only be found in Mamie’s family gardens or the archives of the Seed Savers Exchange Collection. Like many other rare varieties, after its inclusion in the SSE catalog it was picked up by other seed companies and distributed further.

Commercial Seed House: Bringing it to Market

• Distributed 230,000 seed catalogs

• Grew 115 varieties for catalog seed sales

• Grew 462 varieties for lot checks, trials, and photos

• Grafted 500 apple trees of 5 different varieties from the Historic Orchard in 2013 for inclusion in the 2015 catalog

• Placed seed racks in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada

• Introduced 9 varieties from the collection to the seed catalog, some of which have been adopted by other seed companies, ensuring the preservation of rare varieties

• Increased the selection of organic seed in our catalog to 50%


Events at Heritage Farm

Heritage Farm welcomed 15,000 visitors throughout the year. Lillian Goldman Visitors Center (LGVC) staff met local residents who frequented the farm regularly, as well as travelers who drove across the country. Fulfilling our mission to communicate the importance of garden diversity and to pass along seed saving knowledge, SSE hosted 10 events at Heritage Farm.During the summer months, the LGVC hosted an original exhibit titled “Seedtime” featuring special collections from SSE’s Robert Becker Memorial Library. From July through October visitors were able to view a gallery in the barn loft on loan from the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, featuring historical seed catalog art.Photo at right: “Grassfed,” an outdoor exhibit of larger than life canvases by artist Valerie Miller of Steel Cow Gallery, was installed and on display in the pastures at Heritage Farm for the summer.

Over

200 people

participated in seed saving

workshops during the year


Thousands attended annual community events such as the Tomato Tasting and Fall Squash Festival.

Two delicious seed-to-table dinners were held at Heritage Farm: a benefit gala with guest chef, writer and restaurateur Kurt Friese, and a lecture event featuring David Buchanan, author of Taste Memory.

Other events• Conference and Campout Featured speakers included:

Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan, Rosalind Creasy, Dr. Jack Kloppenburg, Sara McCamant, and Dr. Jeremy Cherfas

• 1st Member Field Day

• Spring Kick-Off seed saving and seed starting workshops

• Apple Grafting and Tree Care workshops

• Rare Heirloom Plant Sale and art installations

• Advanced Seed Saving workshop

• Tomato Tasting, Cherry Roma was the winner

• Squash Festival

• 3-day Seed workshop

Over

300 people attended the 33rd Annual Conference and

Campout


200 people attended Forgotten Tastes: An Heirloom Apple Event, held at Grade A Gardens in Des Moines, Iowa. Sponsored by Wells Fargo, and with the help of volunteers from Slow Food Des Moines, guests tasted 70 varieties of heirloom apples and heard lectures throughout the day.

Off-site EventsSSE Co-Founder Diane Ott Whealy and other staff traveled to events throughout the country, spreading the story of Seed Savers Exchange and the knowledge of seed saving.An innovative collaboration between SSE and Decorah’s Luther College offered a unique approach to learning German language and culture through horticulture and seed-saving. Students planted seeds with German heritage, grew them and distributed the produce to a local food pantry.

Workshops & talks across the country

• Duluth Sustainable Farming Conference (MN)

• Longwood Gardens (PA)• San Louis Obispo (CA)• Slow Money National

Gathering (CO)• Minnesota Sustainable

Farming Conference (MN)• Chicago Heirloom

Gardening Workshop (IL)• University of Illinois

Gardener’s Pallette (IL)• La Crosse Public Library (WI)• La Crosse Master

Gardeners (WI)• Maquoketa Master

Gardeners (IA)• Slow Food Harrisburg (PA)• Mother Earth News Fair (WA)• Monroe County Extension

Food Conference (WI)• Madison Master

Gardeners (WI)• Iowa AAUW (IA)• North House Folk School

Workshop (MN)• Madison Seed Swap (WI)• Powell Gardens Lecture (KS)• Wellspring Workshop (WI)• Heirloom Expo (CA)• UMN Arboretum Workshop

(MN)• Decorah Public Library (IA)• Friends Plant Sale (MN)• Chicago Field Museum (IL)• Baltimore Master Gardeners

(MA)• Kickapoo Country Fair (WI)• La Crosse Public Library (WI)• Heritage Harvest Festival (VA)• Driftless Folk School (WI)• Mother Earth News Fair (PA)• The Livestock Conservancy

Conference (NC)


Educational resources

2013 webinar topics:• Start Your Own Seed Collection• Planning Your Garden for Seed Saving• Seed Starting Workshop• Organizing Community Seed Projects:

Seed Swaps & Seed Libraries• Isolation Techniques• Population Size• Edible Landscaping with Rosalind Creasy• Pepper Seed Saving• Eggplant Seed Saving• Heirloom Gardening with Rosalind Creasy• Dry Seed Cleaning• Growing Biennials for Seed

Each month a SSE staff member gave a live presentation to viewers all over the world on a new seed saving topic, from ‘starting a seed collection’ to ‘organizing community seed projects.’

Over 1200 viewers tuned in to participate in the live webinars, and many more continue to watch the webinars after they are archived online.seedsavers.org/webinars

Over

1200 viewers tuned in to participate in the live webinars


Herman’s Garden Seed Donation

ProgramSSE donated 60,000 packets of seed to 600 gardens across the US through Herman’s Garden, a program named to honor Herman Warsh. Herman and his wife, Maryanne Mott were early believers in the vision of SSE.

Participants in Herman’s Garden are asked to continue giving by teaching children to grow healthy gardens, to save seeds for next year’s gardens or to deliver some of their produce to a local food pantry.

Nearly

10,000 students and summer

campers participated in gardening activities at Burgess Farm on Cape

Cod, Massachusetts, with a seed donation from Seed Savers Exchange

“Thank you for your donation to the Galena Public Library! We are so excited to offer a Seed Lending Library to our patrons. Your donation has made this possible!”

American Public Gardens AssociationDecorah Chamber of CommerceDecorah Public LibraryIowa State University College of DesignThe Livestock Conservancy (TLC)Luther CollegeMinnesota Landscape ArboretumOgden Press / Mother Earth NewsOrganic Seed Alliance Pepperfield Project

Partners - AffiliationsWorking together with others who share our values, we were able to accomplish more than is possible on our own

Powell GardensRetired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)Seed MattersSlow Food USASvalbard Global Seed BankTerrace Hill, Iowa Governors’ MansionUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonUSDA, National Center for Genetic Resources PreservationWinneshiek County Convention and Visitors BureauWinneshiek County Master Gardeners


Financial reports

Ace Kitchen PlaceAlbert's OrganicsAmy Goldman -Rare FormsBruening Rock Products, Inc.Carl HomstadCasper Plumbing & HeatingCaves of FaribaultCentroChelsea Green PublishingChocolaterie StamCivic Center of Greater Des

MoinesCountry Living Grain MillCrofters OrganicDecorah Implement Co.Des Moines Art CenterDonlon HealthMart PharmacyDug Road Inn

East Wind Nut ButtersEden OrganicEdward Jones InvestmentsElements LimitedEngelson & Associates LTDErdman Engineering, P.C. Fidelity Bank & TrustFrontier Natural Products Co-OpGrass Run FarmsKalona Super NaturalLate July OrganicLundberg Family FarmsMagnuson ConsultingMilton CreameryMother Earth NewsNortheast Iowa BusinessesNorwegian Mutual Inc. Once Again

Oneota Community Food Co-opOregon ChaiOrganic ValleyPeace CoffeeRockweiler ApplianceRubaiyatSeven Stars FarmSeward Community CoopSno Pac Frozen Vegetabl-esStraus Family CreameryTrusted Choice Valerie Miller: Steel CowVoltmer ElectricWholesome SweetenersWindridge ImplementWinifred MoranvilleWinneshiek True ValueWoodward Printing Services

Sponsors We extend our thanks to the generous sponsors who suppported our work in 2013

For more details, visit seedsavers.org/Financial

Program $4,472,051

Management & General$1,615,776

Fundraising$129,722

Total Expenses $6,217,549

Sales/Shipping $4,524,621

Corporate Contributions$466,139

Membership$427,158

Donations$195,142

Foundation Grants $99,016

Conferences/Events $86,626

Investment Income $47,183

Other income$84,916

Total Revenue $5,930,801

SUPPORT & REVENUE

EXPENSES


$10,000 - $99,9991772 FoundationClif Bar Family

FoundationCharles Engelhard

FoundationLillian Goldman

Charitable TrustThe Seattle Foundation

$5,000 - $9999Noel J. CutrightChristy Walton, Walton

Family FoundationKari Wenger & Peter

Henry

$2,000 - $4,999Brandi ChaseThomas and Patricia

O’Donnell Foundation

Jeanette & Christopher Phelps

Adele R. RayRZ FoundationRick & Beth SchniedersTerra ChipsJo WegsteinKelley & Stephen

Wilkinson

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MagnusonRichard MallumElizabeth McKenzieE. A. MiddletonJosh Miller: J. L. Miller

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PetersonShawn Remacle

Bruce Sherman/North Pond RestaurantThree Bees Fund/Boston FoundationPranav Vyas

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FredricksonJerry GudauskasJames A. HenryMarianne HohennerJanet JarrellJewish Community

FederationNancy LamontJonathan Latham &

Allison WilsonJames LiddilKathlyn MillerRussell NelsonSteven NodgaardNancy S. NordhoffRon PiercePaul ResslarHope ShandSally SpanglerS. J. StoutShirleen & Doug SturtzRichard StrachanJane TenquistKate Van Der RietBarbara WollingStephen WoodwardPam WoollisSilos & Smokestacks

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We often say the Seed Savers Exchange organization is only as strong as our dedicated members and as healthy as the seed collection. This certainly is true, but without the hard work from folks who volunteer their free time and expertise or come to work at Heritage Farm everyday, we wouldn’t be where we are today. We greatly appreciate all the work that our employees, board members, expert advisors, volunteers, and interns do for us.

InternsInterns do so much to help SSE achieve our mission. They in turn benefit from on-the-job training and mentoring by experienced staff.

Talinna ApplingAlexandra RobinsonPaul Tuskowski

Board of Directors(as of 12/31/13)

Governing our organization, committed to our mission, our Directors bring a wealth of experience and expertise to the Board.

Keith Crotz, Chair Neil Hamilton, Vice-Chair Larry Grimstad, Treasurer George DeVault, SecretaryRob Johnston Jr.David Cavagnaro

Who We Are

Advisors(as of 12/31/13)

Experts from near and far are on call to advise in the management of the collection.

Suzanne AshworthDan BeardClive BlazeyWill BonsallJoel GirardinJim HenryLaura JacksonC.R. Lawn

Rosalind CreasyMartin TeitelHope ShandAmy P. Goldman, Special Advisor to the Board

Martin Teitel

Elected in 2013

Hope Shand

Lindsay LeeLee Zieke Lee Craig LeHoullierDeborah MadisonMaria RodaleMichael StraussJohn Swenson

SSE staff celebrate Plaid-urday


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We are forever grateful for our generous volunteers who believe in our mission and help with everything from flipping pancakes to sorting seeds.

volunteersTimothy J AbbottKaren M AndersonJarod S AustinKristie AustinJessica L BabcockCaleb A BatesGreg BiehnLisa A BlaessAnne BohlLauren BonneyHannah L BreckbillDianne C BurkeAaron R BurmeisterDaniel BusseyClaudia CacklerKatie J C CarlsonStephen B CarlsonShannon M CarmodyJamie CarnevaleRenata ChristenHeidi CookCorey S CordellColin Curwen-McAdamsLinda DrackleyJames A EdringtonRichard L EdwardsEden P EhmKathy L GreentreeAdam W GrimTrisha K HagemanLou Ann HallFena J HershbergerLizzie J HershbergerAmy M HolmgrenMargaret HouseSarah N ImoehlTor JansonRichard D JensenTimothy JohnsonPaul A KadlecPhilip J KauthJohn KlosterboerJoshua KraetschJohn KrausElizabeth L LeeMathew LinderbaumJessica B LudwigPaul F LudwigSusan LuzumTrevor J Madsen

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Staff - 2013 Employees

SSE staff celebrate Plaid-urday


Contact Claudia Cackler, Development Director563-387-5670 • [email protected] for more information

ENJOY MEMBERSHIP IN THE

Heirloom Society Like a family heirloom - a piece of jewelry, a quilt, a rocking chair – seeds represent a gift of life from one generation to another, a piece of our gardening heritage preserved for those who follow. Without our special care, these rare heirlooms may be lost forever.

One of the ways you can pass this heirloom legacy to future generations is by thoughtfully planning a gift to Seed Savers Exchange today through a bequest, charitable gift annuity or trust, or beneficiary designation in your life insurance or retirement assets.

When you inform Seed Savers Exchange of your gift intentions, we will invite you to become a part of the Heirloom Society, which has been established to recognize and honor friends who have made a commitment to help continue our work into perpetuity. Enrollment is easy and there is no minimum gift requirement. Your membership in the Heirloom Society will allow us to thank and recognize you for including Seed Savers Exchange in your future plans.

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