Hi. I’m Matthew Dillon. I write stories and work with seed. But let me warn you that I have no formal training in blogging, CSS or HTML or XCL or any other technological web site hocus pocus (thank goodness). So if formal is your thing, forgive my errors in all such things and please kindly suggest correction, addendum, or improvement.
I am the Director of Advocacy for Organic Seed Alliance (OSA). I founded OSA with my friend Dr. John Navazio (vegetable breeder and record collector extraorinaire), and I served as OSA’s executive director from 2003-2007. I also served as executive director for Abundant Life Seed Foundation, which was the nonprofit seed catalog-organism that generated OSA; generated out of a major fire that destroyed the seed collection and my life’s writing work. You’ll read more about all that as SeedStory progresses.
In January I helped launch a new association – Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA). I’m the Senior Policy Anaylst and Program Adviser for OSGATA
And in the spring of 2008 I also began working as a Program Adviser on a Crop Seed Concentration Project for the Organization for Competitive Markets, a public policy research group centered in Lincoln, Nebraska.
I also write – fiction, essays, bad country punk ballads, and such. In 2006 the folks at the Lannan Foundation awarded me a literary fellowship, which included a nice long writing sabbatical at their residency homes in Marfa, Texas.
You can email me (not a hot link to avoid spam): Seedstory AT Gmail DOT com
Hi Matthew ! Very interesting beginning. I’ve never read a blog before so I’m intrigued to be doing so. I look forward to the story about the Abundant Life Seed Foundation.
Re the decision in Canada: can’t quite tell from your description but it sounds as if the Supreme Court found that the case was not ripe for its review. That doesn’t mean that it won’t address the issues later, if someone appeals again.
RMC
hey matthew – it’s been a while, glad to see you’re still in the thick of it! i found a link to this blog on the wild garden seed website and i wanted to just let you know about a local project in my area (the hudson valley of new york) that you might find of interest.
http://www.seedlibrary.org/
keep up the great work! mad love, sascha