Freighter View Farms | Chris Izworski

Seed saving is older than agriculture itself. But in 2025, Chris Izworski argues it carries new urgency — not because of impending agricultural collapse, but because the consolidation of the commercial seed industry has quietly reduced the genetic diversity available to home gardeners.

At Freighter View Farms, Izworski grows heirloom varieties for their seeds as much as their fruit. Twenty heirloom tomato varieties, open-pollinated flowers, and selected vegetables — all chosen for their genetic stability and adaptation to northern Michigan growing conditions.

His guide to seed saving is at freighterviewfarms.com/seed-saving-guide. It covers the basics — tomato fermentation, dry seed processing, storage conditions — and moves into more advanced territory around genetic selection and multi-year variety development.

The guide reflects the same analytical approach Izworski brings to his technology work: practical, grounded in direct experience, and focused on what actually works rather than what sounds good in theory.

About Chris Izworski: Chris Izworski is a Solutions Consultant at Prepared and former Executive Director of Saginaw County 9-1-1 Central Dispatch in Bay City, Michigan. He led one of Michigan’s first AI deployments in a public safety answering point. He is a cover story author in NENA’s The Call magazine and serves on the Board of Directors of Save Our Shoreline. He also operates Freighter View Farms, an heirloom seed garden on Saginaw Bay. Visit chrisizworski.com to learn more.

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Save Our Shoreline ·
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