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Ira Wallace
Ira Wallace is a gardener, teacher and author. She manages Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, a cooperatively-owned seed company. Wallace played a role in the making of the 2014 film documentary ''Open Sesame – The Story of Seeds'', an eye-opening account highlighting the obstacles that some of the most notable non-GMO seed proponents face in their quest to keep seeds from becoming sovereign property solely controlled by powerful entities. The film can be seen on Amazon Prime Video. Wallace has served as a board member for the ''Virginia Association for Biological Farming'', Open Source Seed Initiative and ''Organic Seed Alliance''. She was the recipient of the 2016 Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2019 American Horticultural Society's Paul Ecke Jr. Commercial Award and the 2019 recipient of the Organic Growers School's Organic Educator Award. Early life Wallace was raised in Tampa, Florida, by her grandmother Estella Brown. Her grandmother taught her how t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New College Of Florida
New College of Florida is a public liberal arts college in Sarasota, Florida. It was founded in 1960 as a private institution known simply as New College, spent several years merged into the University of South Florida, and in 2001 became an autonomous college, the eleventh independent school of the State University System of Florida. Upon achieving independence, the school adopted its current name: New College of Florida. The school is distinguished by its unusual "contract system," in which students are given written evaluations instead of grades and agree to semester-long contracts in which a certain number of classes must be passed. For example, in a "three out of five" contract, a student who failed two classes would face no penalty, although one who failed three classes would risk losing the entire semester's credits. The system was devised to encourage academic experimentation and foster curiosity about disparate topics outside one's usual course of study. New College st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
