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Many, but not all of these independent
seed companies have signed the Safe
Seed Pledge
Abundant Life Seeds
www.abundantlifeseeds.com
- A small grower in Oregon, dedicated to seed security
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, based
in Missouri.
www.rareseeds.com/ - They
sell only heirloom varieties. Their selection of seeds is great
and their catalog has news stories related to GMOs.
Botanical Interests
www.botanicalinterests.com
- Unusual varieties, some good mixes suited to smaller gardens,
excellent botanical art No catalog. Get seeds online or in local
stores.
Bountiful Gardens
www.bountifulgardens.org
- In addition to a vast collection of heirloom vegetables, they
also have some grains that are hard to find including grains without
hulls, cover crops,
and the widger tool for transplanting. Intensive garden books have
good
strategies for growing a lot of food in community garden plots.
Brent and Becky's Bulbs
www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com
- Excellent selection of quality bulbs
Burpee
www.burpee.com
Companion Plants
www.companionplants.com
- A gold mine for aromatic, culinary or medicinal herbs
Comstock, Ferre
www.comstockferre.com
- claims to be the oldest (1820)continuously operating seed company
in the U.S. They developed the Wethersfield Red onion but are now
just a distributor with a really nice retail store.
The Cook's Garden
www.cooksgarden.com
Evergreen
www.evergreenseeds.com
- All sorts of Asian seeds. Good resource for fall cool weather
garden seeds. No catalog. Order online.
Multilingual dictionary of vegetable names. link
Fedco
www.fedcoseeds.com
Fragrant Path Seed Co
www.fragrantpathseeds.com
- Seeds for fragrant, rare and old-fashioned plants
F.W. Shumacher
www.treeshrubseeds.com
- They sell only seeds for trees and shrubs
Graines Baumaux-France
www.graines-baumaux.fr/
- Great European seed resource. Also has interesting flower mixes.
Website in French
Harris Seeds
www.gardeners.harrisseeds.com
High Mowing Seeds
www.highmowingseeds.com
- We are dedicated to organic seeds like no other company in the
U.S. We have the highest organic integrity and attention to professional,
high-quality seeds and service.
Hungnong-Korean
www.seminis.com/products/
- They were bought by Seminis. What some people are doing is buying
from them one last time and saving seed of op seeds or only getting
items which can't
be found at more sustainable places.
JLHudson
www.jlhudsonseeds.net
Johnny's
www.johnnyseeds.com
King Seeds
www.kingsseeds.com.nz
(Aust/NZ)
Kitazawa Seed
www.kitazawaseed.com (best
Asian seedselection, very reliable)
Kitchen Garden Seeds - John Scheepers
www.kitchengardenseeds.com
- Focusing on seeds for vegetables and flowers appropriate for the
kitchen garden.Web and catalog - Based in Connecticut
Landreth
www.landrethseeds.com
- They have interesting heirloom items. The company is so old that
every U S president from Washington to Roosevelt ordered from them.
Meyer Seeds
www.meyersseed.com/ - Have
a lot of different kinds of beans.some seed coated with toxic chemicals
Monticello
www.monticello.org/shop
- Heirloom seeds including the sorts of plants that Jefferson grew
orintroduced.
Native Seeds SEARCH
www.nativeseeds.org - not
a "seed supplier" but you can get southwestU.S. and Mexico
regional seeds from them and hopefully maintain your ownseed source.
New England Seed
www.neseed.com - relatively
new. Focuses on commercialgrowers to some degree. Donates all of
their leftovers at the end ofeach growing season.
New Gippsland Seeds
www.newgipps.com.au - (Australia)
New Hope Seed
www.newhopeseed.com
- All of the seed offered is grown and produced here on their own
farm.
Nichols
www.nicholsgardennursery.com
- They have a good variety of hard to find seeds plus books, cheesemaking,sourdough,
wine and beer making items for people who want to create more of
their own food.
Organic Gardening Catalogue
www.OrganicCatalog.com
- (UK)
Park Seed
www.parkseed.com
Path to Freedom
http://www.pathtofreedom.com
Peaceful Valley Farm Supply
www.groworganic.com
Pinetree Seeds
www.superseeds.com
Plants of the Southwest
www.plantsofthesouthwest.com
Renee's Seed
www.reneesgarden.com -
Used to be Shepherd's seeds. Now even more great seeds. Nice botanicalart.No
print catalog. Get seeds online or at a local retailer
Richters Herbs
www.richters.com - The greatest
variety of culinary, medicinal, dye, and multi-use herbs.
Ronnigers
www.ronnigers.com - best
source for potatoes and garlic, also provide onions and sun chocks
Sand Hill Preservation
http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/
- You might remember Glenn Drowns as the teen in the Seed Savers
literaturewho collected heirloom squash. He still has a lot and
many other types ofheirloom vegetables.
Seeds from Italy
http://www.growitalian.com/
- Over 350 kinds of Italian seeds, mostly from Franchi Sementi.
Seeds of Change
http://www.seedsofchange.com/default.asp
Good variety of heirloom seeds.
Seed Savers Exchange
www.seedsavers.org
Select
www.samen.ch - (Swiss)S.C. Foundation
Seed AssociationDr. David Bradshaw, S.C. Foundation Seed Association(864)
656-2520. Recently retired, Dr. Bradshaw has been gathering and
sustaining historic varieties for 2 decades at Clemson U. Great
resource!
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
www.southernexposure.com
- real friends for Southerngardeners
Stokes Seed
www.stokeseeds.com
Suttons-UK
www.suttons.co.uk/default.aspx
Territorial Seeds
www.territorial-seed.com
The Natural Gardening Company
www.naturalgardening.com
- The first organic certified garden supply company - California
Thompson and Morgan-UK
www.thompson-morgan.com/
Tomato Growers Supply
www.tomatogrowers.com
- Five hundred varieties of tomatoes, peppers and eggplant
Totally Tomato
www.totallytomato.com/ttsiteDefault.aspx
Unwins-UK
www.unwinsdirect.co.uk/
- The owner is especially fond of large produce that tastes good
and producesprize winning vegetables. They are also famous for their
sweet pea flowers.
Vermont Bean
www.vermontbean.com/vbsiteDefault.aspx
- An amazingly diverse collection of beans.
Veseys Seed
www.veseys.com
Victory Seeds
www.victoryseeds.com
Quisenberry/Sudduth strain of Brandyine
West Coast Seeds
www.westcoastseeds.com
William Dam Seeds
www.damseeds.com
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