Seeds of Change is an organic seed and food company headquartered in Chicago. A subsidiary of Mars, Inc. since 1995,[1] until summer 2010 the company was based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and producers of a line of processed organic foods including pasta sauces and salad dressings.
Seeds of Change was founded in 1989 by Gabriel Howearth and Kenny Ausubel, as a seed company specializing in organics .[3] The company devotes 1% of its net sales toward sustainable organic farming initiatives.
Research farm (Now Closed)
The Seeds of Change Research Farm and Gardens was founded in 1989 in Gila, New Mexico[4] by Gabriel Howearth. By 1996, the Research Farm moved north to a site closer to the company's Santa Fe offices. The farm included over a thousand varieties of plants on six acres of land originally cultivated by the Tewa people on a flood plain along the Rio Grande in El Guique, New Mexico.