Seeds of Change is an organic seed and food company owned by Mars, Inc. 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.
The Seeds of Change Research Farm and Gardens was founded in 1989 in Gila, New Mexico[2] by Gabriel Howearth.
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.
[citation needed] In August 2010, Mars announced that it would close the farm and move some management to Los Angeles.
[3] In a partnership with Conservation International, Seeds of Change seeks to strengthen and protect traditional shade cropping cabruca cacao cultivation in Brazil.