Home Our Safe Seed Pledge
We pledge to offer open-pollinated seed grown on our farm or on farms and in gardens, mainly working with biodynamic practices as outlined by Rudolf Steiner in his Agriculture Course of 1924. Our North American seed growers understand and are committed to this. We work with our network of growers on a basis of mutual trust and understanding, through personal contact and with specific guidelines, which include watching isolation carefully to ensure purity of variety and safety from genetic pollution. We do not carry hybrids or knowingly carry seed that has been genetically engineered or polluted with genetically engineered products. We also do not knowingly carry products from farms where animals are fed genetically engineered feed. We pledge to educate ourselves and others as we learn, grow and develop towards attaining the ideal of a biodynamic farm or garden. Throughout our time as managers of Turtle Tree Biodynamic Seed Initiative, we developed a relation with many biodynamic growers in the US. and we continue to develop new grower relationships.
Certification
For the convenience of those required to have certified seed, we have noted available certified organic varieties as OG. We have one non-certified organic/BD grower who donates their seed and thus labeled ecologically grown. Please email meadowlarkhearth@gmail.com if your farm or business needs our current organic certificate. When Meadowlark Hearth learned from Demeter USA in June of 2018 that there would no longer be an organic certification with Demeter USA, the Corymb’s searched for the most ethical organic certification in the US and made the decision to go with OneCert Inc since then.
At this time around 70 percent of the vegetable and all garlic seed offered online from Meadowlark Hearth is grown on our 500 acre certified organic farm using BD practices as outlined by Rudolf Steiner at Koberwitz, Germany (Silesia) in 1924. Seed Varieties not from our farm are certified organic and/or from farms practicing the suggestions made by Rudolf Steiner. Nathan and Beth Corymb trained in Biodynamic Agriculture in the 1980’s at Kimberton Hills Camphill Village and have continued these practices for the past 40 years.
