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Our Mission
Enabling a vibrant, local food system through the active development of a bio-regional seed bank driven by strategic farm designs and the production of organic seeds, plants and produce.
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Our Vision
Back to Our Roots: Food, Seeds & Community
In less than 100 years, humanity has gone from maintaining heirloom seeds traditionally around the globe to an industrially-controlled food system with GMO seeds as the driving force. Simultaneously, pressing global issues such as climate change, species extinctions and soil degradation compel us to grow new multicultural roots and create elegant solutions that provide for our basic needs: food, seeds & community!
Around five decades ago, a movement began in an attempt to recover seed and food sovereignty and re-establish “public domain” plant breeding. MASA focuses on re-establishing food and seed growing as fertile ground for creating community. Through reconnecting with the earth and our food, we reconnect with each other and our diverse cultural roots. We create wider access to fresh and healthy food and seed for low-income, underprivileged, undernourished and diverse populations. We are in a unique position to honor the efforts of our ancestors, while securing viable agricultural options for the future of our children and generations to come.
Recovering Seed Sovereignty
Not so long ago, farmers and gardeners saved, shared and maintained heirloom seeds to plant for multiple seasons. Over the past 80 years we’ve benefited from an industrial food system that has increased scale and global access. But at a price. Today, four big agricultural corporations own and control 60% of the world’s seed stock. We are in a unique position to help the farmers and gardeners of the Front Range promote variety, GMO-free crops and recover ”seed sovereignty”, while securing more viable agricultural options for the future of our children.
Imagine…
Flowering plants and seeds began their evolution at least 120 million years before human intervention. Through a remarkable evolutionary process, their proliferation gave rise to nine geographic global origins. From these primary “centers of plant diversity” emerged all the foods we now eat! Ancient Aboriginals inherited this diversity, which began the process of plants and seeds being selected, grown, and revered over thousands of years by our indigenous and then colonial ancestors.