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Fedco Seeds 1990, Fedco Seeds
Fedco Seeds 1990, Fedco Seeds
Fedco Seed Catalogs
When is a seed catalog more than a seed catalog? When it is the Fedco Seed catalog.
Fedco, founded in 1978, is a worker-consumer cooperative in Maine known for promoting the ideals of cooperation, transparency, and the common ownership of seeds. These archives contain thousands of pages of Fedco’s seed catalogs. As one of its editors noted, “We give our readers things to think about.” Annual themes have included the role played by soil bacteria—the microscopic heroes that make life on this planet possible; the contributions of plant breeders and seed keepers; poetry by Walt Whitman, Vergil, and Russell Libby, …