{"id":46253,"date":"2021-06-15T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmers-market-vibrant-earth-seeds-helps-gardeners-achieve-food-sovereignty\/"},"modified":"2021-06-15T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:32:00","slug":"farmers-market-vibrant-earth-seeds-helps-gardeners-achieve-food-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmers-market-vibrant-earth-seeds-helps-gardeners-achieve-food-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Market: Vibrant Earth Seeds helps gardeners achieve food sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Avalon Gulley and Ross Rodgers of Vibrant Earth Seeds sell seeds and plant starts at Durango Farmers Market. The business, which is just over a year old, is based on helping people enjoy their own food sovereignty. (Nick Gonzales\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Nick Gonzales<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

While farmers markets are most known as places to get produce \u2014 fruits and vegetables at the end of their growing process \u2013 seed stewards Avalon Gulley and Ross Rodgers are there to help you start at the beginning.<\/p>\n

Based in McElmo Canyon near Cortez, Vibrant Earth Seeds is just over a year old, Gulley said, though she and Rodgers have been growing seeds for over a decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re selling mostly seeds, but we\u2019ve got some tomato starts, tomatillo starts, pepper starts, and some herbs and watermelons,\u201d Gulley said. \u201cWe grew the seeds ourselves in Colorado last season, and we\u2019ll have a wider selection \u2013 this is our first season, so we\u2019re just getting off the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

The seeds, which are all open-pollinated, chemical-free, non-GMO and Colorado-adapted, include: corn, beans, squash, greens, zucchini and melons.<\/p>\n

In addition to seeds, Vibrant Earth is dedicated to disseminating knowledge to better enable people to grow their own food, Gulley said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe focus on educating folks about saving their own seeds for food sovereignty and organic gardening education,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The process is largely teaching people things people have known for generations, Rodgers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re reviving what people have always done \u2013 why we still have seeds is because of our ancestors knowing these kinds of things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack in the day, \u2018organic gardening\u2019 was called \u2018gardening,\u2019\u201d Gulley added.<\/p>\n

Vibrant Earth Seeds can be reached at (970) 444-2482 and info@vibrantearthseeds.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ngonzales@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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