Seed Sourcing Guide
Seed shopping season is HERE and boy are we excited! Winter is the perfect time of year to begin planning your spring planting. Sourcing quality organic seed can be a BIG challenge for both home growers and farmers alike.
Growing Veterans is proud to grow using organic seed generously donated by the following companies, please say thank you by supporting those who support us:
1) Uprising Seed
Perfect for the NW climate: Uprising Seeds is a small family run certified organic seed farm and the culmination of years of fresh market farming, variety trialing, seed production and breeding work, and most importantly, a decades-long love affair with food and its power to bring people together. Their ideal vision of seed sustainability involves farmers and gardeners as the stewards of the varieties that they depend on. They are therefore committed to strengthening the public commons of seed genetics by working to preserve and improve open-pollinated varieties keeping biodiversity strong through adaptability and resilience.
2) Oborne Seed Co.
Osborne Quality Seeds is an independent family owned seed dealer located in the Skagit Valley of Washington State, specializing in innovative varieties and excellent customer service for over 35 years. Their selection includes vegetable, flower, herb, and cover crop seeds, including both hybrid and open-pollinated varieties, available as certified organic, untreated, treated, and pelleted. They Serve growers of all sizes across the USA and Canada.
3) Seed Savers Exchange
Seed Savers Exchange stewards Americaʼs culturally diverse and endangered garden and food crop legacy for present and future generations. They educate and connect people through collecting, regenerating, and sharing heirloom seeds, plants, and stories.
4) High Mowing
High Mowing Organic Seeds began in 1996 with just 28 varieties, & has grown into a thriving and hardworking community whose efforts everyday make organic seed available to home gardeners and commercial growers across North America.
With over 700 heirloom, open-pollinated and hybrid varieties of vegetable, fruit, herb and flower seed, High Mowing’s commitment to furthering organic agriculture continues to grow and in turn grows the organic movement. True to our roots, High Mowing Organic Seeds continues to source many of the varieties we sell directly from independent, passionate organic seed farmers.
5) Territorial Seeds
Territorial specialized in seeds, plants, garlic, and accessories, including organic and biodynamic varieties. This small producer has been a family owned business since 1979. It is their mission to Our purpose is to improve people's self-sufficiency and independence by enabling gardeners to produce an abundance of good tasting, fresh from the garden food, twelve months a year.