A New North Carolina Farm Collective Sells “Seeds that know the South”
Garden & GUN
“Many planters know the feeling: After pushing a bunch of minuscule seeds into the soil, they stand back and think, There’s no way that’s going to grow. Chris Smith seems free from such doubt, already foreseeing how to improve the next harvest and the harvest after that. Indeed, that’s the core mission of the Utopian Seed Project, the nonprofit he founded in Asheville five years ago to identify and propagate plant varieties that support diversity and climate-change adaptability in the local food system of Western North Carolina.”
