Creating a Seed Farmer Community with Edmund Frost

About this episode

Edmund Frost discusses his work in creating a community of seed growers and breeders in the humid southeast USA.

Edmund Frost founded a collective of seed growers and breeders who sell their selection of seeds suitable for the humid southeast USA as Common Wealth Seed Growers. He lives in Louisa County, Virginia, a center for the intentional communities movement, and spent many years living at Twin Oaks Community. He is passionate about breeding cucurbits for disease resistance, along with many other crops. Read more about the Common Wealth Seed Growers: https://commonwealthseeds.com Sign up to Recombination Nation on Substack for free weekly articles: https://recombinationnation.substack.com Read Shane's book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology: https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85/

People in this episode

Host: Shane Simonsen

Guest: Edmund Frost

Topics covered

• seed farming
• community building
• cucurbits breeding
• sustainable agriculture
• intentional communities

Keywords

• seed growers
• cucurbits
• disease resistance
• southeast USA
• intentional communities

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Common Wealth Seed Growers, Twin Oaks Community

Books & works: Taming the Apocalypse

Places: Louisa County, Virginia

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