Heritage seed suppliers
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Where to find heritage/ heirloom seeds
When you grow plants from heritage (also known as heirloom) seeds, you're growing a piece of the past. Generations of gardeners will have carefully collected and saved these seeds - something that rarely happens today. By growing heirloom plants, and saving your own seeds, you're protecting plant biodiversity - and growing something fun!
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Seed Savers Exchange
A US Seed Saving Organization
Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. Seeds Savers Exchange is a non-profit organization of gardeners dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds. The Heritage Seed Library
Saving heritage seeds in the UK
Garden Organic, the UK's organic gardening charity, run the Heritage Seed Library (HSL). The HSL doesn't sell seeds - it gives them away to members each year. The aim of the HSL is to conserve and distribute heritage vegetable varieties, some of which were once popular and some of which are family heirlooms - passed down through generations. They also have some unusual plants to try. The Real Seed Catalogue
The best vegetable seeds for the Kitchen Garden
The Real Seed Catalogue is a small UK-based seed company that doesn't want to get any larger! They only supply seeds from open-pollinated varieties, so you can save your own seed each year. They'd rather you do that than come back and buy your seed from them each year, and so they make detailed seed saving instructions available on their website, and send them out with each packet of seed. Saving tomato seeds
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AppletonPermaculture
Jan 15, 2012 @ 10:08 am | delete
- Another great lens! I second your recommendation of RealSeeds, they have such a great catalogue with really spectacular heritage varieties.
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Fluffymuppet
Sep 30, 2008 @ 12:56 am | delete
- Cool lens! I've added to your list of heirloom suppliers :)
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Heritage Seed Blog Posts
- Fresh veggies without the hassle
- I jumped on the heirloom-bandwagon this year and ordered my garden seeds from Heritage Harvest Seeds in Carman, Manitoba. Jessy Friesen, Tanya and Iris Stefanec are seed savers - they work tirelessly to preserve heirloom varieties, tracking down rare ...
- Seeds of Plenty: The wisdom of genetic diversity
- At the age of 19, she started Sun Flower Seeds ? a mission to spread the word about heirloom seeds. By Mike Youds Anyone who has been to Seedy Saturday knows how home gardeners hunger for seeds ? and not just any garden-variety seeds ? for their ...
- Fresh veggies without the hassle
- I jumped on the heirloom-bandwagon this year and ordered my garden seeds from Heritage Harvest Seeds in Carman, Manitoba. Jessy Friesen, Tanya and Iris Stefanec are seed savers - they work tirelessly to preserve heirloom varieties, tracking down rare ...
- A visit to Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
- I had the pleasure of speaking at Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds in Mansfield, Missouri over the weekend and it was amazing. Jere Gettle has turned a bedroom hobby into an amazing company. The two day Spring Planting Festival attracted over 7000 people and ...
Heritage and heirloom seed suppliers
Where to source your heirloom seeds
If your favorite heirloom/ heritage seed supplier is not listed here, add it in the comments!
- Seed Savers Exchange
- Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of rare garden seeds to other gardeners. We are a non-profit organization of gardeners dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.
- Heritage Seed Library
- The Heritage Seed Library works to safeguard rare vegetable varieties that were once the mainstay of British gardens.
- Great Vegetable Seeds from The Real Seed Catalogue
- Our latest collection of the very best vegetable seeds for home gardeners and allotment growers. Guaranteed to have better flavour!
- Organic Seeds Online - Association Kokopelli Organic Seeds - Welcome
- Association Kokopelli, a non-profit making organisation in France, was set up in 1999 to take up the torch of Terre de Semences in France, which was forced to close down following the enforcement of a ministerial decree (Ministry of Agriculture) imposing draconian conditions for the legal registration of ancient vegetable varieties in a "A List for Amateur Varieties".
Association Kokopelli has, in this short time since 1999, blossomed all over Europe presenting an imposing collection of ancient vegetable varieties. Many members of the Association are very deeply involved in the protection of alimentary biodiversity and the safeguarding of traditional varieties. - Thomas Etty Esq.
- Supplier of Heritage Seeds & Bulbs for the Period Garden
- Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
- Saving over 1200 heirloom seeds!
- Seeds of Diversity - Home
- Seeds of Diversity is a Canadian volunteer organization that conserves the biodiversity and traditional knowledge of food crops and garden plants.
- Seed Savers Network
- Preserving the genetic basis of tomorrow's food
- Sustainable Seed Company
- Sustainable Seed Company offers the finest quality open pollinated and heirloom vegetable, herb, grain, flower and cover crop seeds for sale anywhere!
65% of all our heirloom vegetable seed stock is grown on organic farms in California
98% of our vegetable seed is grown here on the West Coast
40% of that is grown here in Sonoma County California
We are California's local source for sustainably grown heirloom vegetable seed. Based in the California winecounty. We live here, grow here and support the local economy here in California. We are helping to grow a New Sustainable California.
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