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A Guide to Seed Saving, Seed Stewardship, and Seed Sovereignty by The Seed Ambassadors Project (That’s us!). 4th Edition, January 2010. 38 pages. 5th edition coming soon! (Yes, we said that last year. And yes, we still mean it.) Our small publication/zine on seed saving. Contains basic background information and fundamental concepts of seed saving…
Around The World in 80 Plants: An Edible Perennial Vegetable Adventure For Temperate Climates. By Stephen Barstow. 1st ed, 2014. 304 pages. This book is such a gem. In Around the World in 80 Plants, Barstow shows us how many (80!) perennial vegetables can be easily integrated into our gardens and diets. The book includes…
Blackberries in July: A Forager’s Field Guide to Inner Peace By Tom A. Titus. 1st edition, 2012. Autographed. 147 pages. We are not in the business of selling books for pleasure reading, but Blackberries in July is such a great read that we couldn’t resist adding it to the short list of our book offerings…
Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener’s and Farmer’s Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving By Carol Deppe. 2nd edition, 2000. 348 pages. Possibly the most important and entertaining garden book currently in print. Reading this book will empower your seed stewardship abilities and catapult you further into a world of plant fun.
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land By Leah Penniman. 2018. 368 pages. In 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were Black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by Black people—a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession….
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners By Suzanne Ashworth. 2nd edition, 2002. Paperback. 228 pages. This is the seed saving reference book. It describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. Details include botanical classification; flower structure and means of pollination; required population size and isolation distance;…
The New Farmer’s Almanac, Volume VI: Adjustments and Accommodations By The Greenhorns. 2023. Paperback. 300 pages. Foreword by Severine Von Tscharner Fleming. The newest volume of the eclectic biannual anthology from Greenhorns, a grassroots network for recruiting, promoting, and supporting new American farmers. The New Farmer’s Almanac Volume VI: Adjustments and Accommodations seeks to recognize…
The New Vegetable Growers Handbook: A Users Manual for the Organic Vegetable Garden By Frank Tozer. Revised ed., 2016. Paperback. 304 pages. A must-have resource for every grower. Covering over 80 common plant types (from amaranth to wheat), in addition to many herbs and edible weeds, this book is remarkably informative. Tozer gives fairly specific…
The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer’s Guide to Vegetable Seed Production By John Navazio. 1st edition, 2012. 388 pages. Paperback. This gorgeous textbook style book has everything you need to know about producing high quality seed crops for most vegetables using organic methods. Information includes isolation distance, population size, genetic maintenance, and tips and tricks…
The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times By Carol Deppe. 1st edition, 2010. 384 pages. This truly is a gardening book like no other. Written in an engaging style, it has loads of information on how to successfully grow potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs – even with constraints ranging from a…
The Seed Farmer: A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Selling Your Own Seeds By Dan Brisebois, 2024. 256 pages. Paperback. Adaptive Seeds’ own Sarah Kleeger was asked to write an endorsement for The Seed Farmer, and she enthusiastically agreed. We are now thrilled to offer this exciting new book by our friend and experienced seed…
The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Saving Seed Edited by Lee Buttala and Shanyn Siegel, written by Jared Zystro and Micaela Colley. 1st ed, 2015. Paperback. 390 pages with 350 color photographs. The Seed Garden is a wonderful book that is the result of a joint project between the Organic Seed Alliance and…
The Transition Document: Toward a Biologically Resilient Agriculture By Harry MacCormack. 4th edition, 2009. Paperback. 200 pages. This is the most comprehensive book we have found about the big picture issues of organic agriculture. It contains in-depth scientific and experiential information about soils and soil biology, chemicals, field practices, compost and compost tea, and the…
Adaptive Seeds Hats! Cover your dome with an Adaptive Seeds hat! Hats have a black patch with white design featuring fists holding a shovel and a pitchfork (or is it a spoon and a fork?). Fists rock knuck tats that say “ADAP-TIVE” and are pictured over larger stencil-style text that reads “SEEDS.” “Baseball” style hat…
Adaptive Seeds Shirts! Wear your love for Adaptive Seeds with an Adaptive Seeds Logo shirt! This t-shirt features a vertical black logo design on the front. We’ve got your back, too: Bringing Biodiversity Back! is emblazoned across the back. Sandy soil color is perfect for getting dirty. 100% organic cotton, medium weight (5.3 oz) T-shirt…
Lactuca sativa. 55 days. For those of you who would rather grow head lettuce than baby salad mix, this mix is for you. Includes nothing but butterhead varieties. Colors range from light green to dark red. All will make good, dense heads suitable for salads, sandwiches, or use as lettuce wraps. Can also be cultivated…
Lactuca sativa. 28 days. Seasonal lettuce mixes are a great way to achieve culinary and growing success. This mix is best sown in spring (March-April) and autumn (September-October), and includes varieties that have shown excellence in our spring and fall lettuce trials. All varieties will germinate in diverse soil conditions and are cool weather tolerant….
Limited Time Offer! This mix is for the seed enthusiast who can’t stand the idea of a single seed going to waste. Each packet contains approximately one gram of floor sweepings from our seed room floor. May include one or more seeds for any of our over 600 varieties! Packet includes seeds, pine needles, dog…
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Adaptive Seeds Patch Adorn your gear with an Adaptive Seeds knuckle tattoo patch! Black patch with white design features fists holding a shovel and a pitchfork (or is it a spoon and a fork?) in a nod to our Seed Ambassadors Project logo of sticker rainbow fame. Fists have knuck tats that say “ADAPT-TIVE” positioned…
Adaptive Seeds Shirts! Show the world you are Bringing Biodiversity Back with this t-shirt featuring our classic Bringing Biodiversity Back sticker design. Natural Raw (aka, cream) colored t-shirt has purple and green graphic. 100% organic cotton, medium weight (5.3 oz) t-shirt designed with a modern, medium fit. Natural Raw color is made with uncleaned carded…
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Lactuca sativa. 28 days. Features varieties that have performed well in our hot weather lettuce trials. Includes crisphead, romaine, oak leaf, and butterhead varieties, making this mix work well for head lettuce or cut-and-come-again salad mix production. We recommend this mix for summer sowings in the Pacific Northwest.
Adaptive Seeds Hats! Cover your dome with an Adaptive Seeds hat! Hats have a black patch with white design featuring fists holding a shovel and a pitchfork (or is it a spoon and a fork?). Fists rock knuck tats that say “ADAP-TIVE” and are pictured over larger stencil-style text that reads “SEEDS.” “Trucker” style hat…
Vigna angularis. Red. 90 days. We had almost given up on growing adzuki beans and then entered Hokkaido, which matures earlier than most other varieties. It makes sense because the Japanese island of Hokkaido, where this bean originates, has a cool, short growing season. Short bushy plants produce long slender pods that hold many little…
Ageratum houstonianum. 45 days. Tiny fuzzy purple flowers form in nice sized clusters on long stems making a great filler for bouquets. Long season makes it great for the garden, too! Many modern ageratums have been bred to be dwarf bedding plants, but Dondo Blue maintains the taller stature loved for cut flower production. Stems…
Ageratum houstonianum. 50 days. One of the easiest cut flowers to grow. Red Bouquet Ageratum produces tons of small, fuzzy violet-red flowers that form in clusters atop 18 – 24” stems all summer long. Often thought of as a filler flower, we think it can be much more – with several stems bundled together, the…
Smyrnium olusatrum. Biennial. This plant goes by many names and has a long history, possibly going back to Alexander the Great. Ancient Romans ate the leaves, stems, roots, and flower buds as vegetables. Leaves are comparable to a mild-flavored parsley, and are tasty in salad or used as an herb. Large umbels of yellow-flowered blossoms are…
Amaranthus sp. Flower/Grain. 45 days leaf; 90 grain. A stunning early maturing variety that grows 4-7′ tall and has light tan, almost golden colored seeds. With its very ornamental, large, orange seed heads, Copperhead Amaranth will certainly become a focal point in the garden. We love it when staple food crops double as ornamentals. Similar…
Amaranthus caudatus. Flower. 65 days. Coral Fountain Amaranth is similar to the beloved Love Lies Bleeding Amaranth, with its long flowing pendulum type flower heads, but the flowers are a lovely coral-peach color instead of magenta. Plants grow 4-5′ tall with flowers reaching downward to the ground. Makes a great cut flower and also works…
Amaranthus caudatus. Flower. 75 days. We wanted to change the name to Envy Lies Bleeding because it looks so much like the red variety, Love Lies Bleeding. But, Green Tails it is. Long, lime green flower tails form on plants that grow 4-5′ tall. When planted in rows it makes a nice backdrop wall to…
Amaranthus caudatus. Flower. 65 days. This popular ornamental has long streaming magenta flowers that are very nice as a long lasting cut flower. Love Lies Bleeding is a great crop in the summer heat and tolerates neglect very well. Yields tan edible seeds with a slight pink hue. Occasionally self seeds and can return through…
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