After eleven years as the Heritage Seed Program with Canadian Organic Growers, we had grown to the point that it was time to become an independent non-profit corporation. At first, we wanted to incorporate as the Heritage Seed Program, but that was not allowed because the phrase "Heritage Seed" was trademarked by a bread company. We chose the name Seeds of Diversity, and now we think that was a better name anyway because it stands for progress as well as heritage. Yes, we were very surprised and concerned that somebody had trademarked "heritage seed". If you're curious, here's the Canadian Trademarks Database page. The trademark was only removed because of non-renewal in 2024 !