Abundant Life Seed Company, Oregon, offer 100% organic seeds.

Amish Heirloom Seeds - Amishland have heirloom, heritage, exotic and foreign organically raised seeds, heirloom vegetable seeds. http://www.amishlandseeds.com/new2014.html

Baker Creek Seed Co.Heirloom Seeds Offering heirloom - more than 1275 varietiesnon-genetically modified seeds, the oldest continuously operated seed company in the United States.email: seeds@rareseeds.com

Botanical Interests

Bountiful Gardens

Brambleberry Farms, Paoli Indiana -http://brambleberryfarm.org

Chef's Garden
Diane's Flower Seeds (veggie seed, too)

Dirt Works offers 100% organic vegetable seeds and hardy organic heirloom seeds. Some open pollinated. Grain, hay, forage, wildflowers, compost, organic fertilizers, www.dirtworks.net Safe Seed Pledge.

Fedco - www.fedcoseeds.com, Maine
Untreated vegetable, tubers, herb, & flower seed. Many certified organic. Cover crops, soil amendments & supplies for organic growers. Safe Seed Pledge. No GMOs, etc. Good prices. Order early. phasing out seminis seeds.

Fisher's Seeds - 406-388-6052; no website, will send a catalog if you give them your address
PO Box 236, Belgrade, MT 59714

Garden City Seeds

Heirlooms Evermore Seeds

Heirloom Seeds

High Mowing Seeds

Horizon Herbs - Specialize in medicinal herbs and plants, has an interesting selection of seeds for Herb, Flower and Vegetable plants.

Franchi Sementi Italian Seeds - The UK-based company. they have legumes seeds (faro, lentils borlotto), capers, black cabbage etc. and a chef's line of seeds.

Garden Medicinals and Culinaries
Virginia based, they offer 210 varieties of herb, vegetable and flower seeds and plants - mostly herb seeds. Most organically grown, all open- pollinated, and non-GMO. Offer false unicorn seeds and seedlings, salad burnet, red leaf plantain, and agrimony. Some Heirloom tomato and vegetable seeds, like Belyj Naliv' and Wickline cherry.

Grannys Heirloom Seeds - www.grannysheirloomseeds.com ll seed packets are untreated, NON-Hybrid -Non- Gmo seeds which allow the gardener to collect seeds from a crop for future planting. Hybrid seeds do not. Safe Seed Pledge

Heirloom Seeds - www.heirloomseeds.com
All seeds are open pollinated (non-hybrid) and untreated.
No GMO. Many Organic. Good selection of organic.
Many garden packages. Organic fertilizers.

HeirloomSeedSwap.com the FREE Seed Exchange for Seed Savers Worldwide.

Kitazawa Seed Company is the oldest Asian vegetable seed company in the US. http://www.kitazawaseed.com/

High Mowing Seed - http://www.highmowingseeds.com/ 100% organic certified seed: vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers. Over 450 organic heirloom, open-pollinated and organic hybrid. Safe Seed Pledge

Irish-Eyes - Garden City Seeds - A Washington-based seed company that has a good basic selection with some unusual varieties and many organic offerings.

JL Hudson Seedsman - This La Honda, CA company is a "public access seed bank." They have a large selection of seeds. Non-vegetables are listed under latin names. 2008 Specialty vegetable offerings included Amaranth Chinese Giant Orange, Basil, Ocimum sanctum (Holy Basil), Beet, Sugar Beet, Chicory Variegata De Castelfranco, Popcorn Miniature Blue, Watermelon Blacktail Mountain, Mangel Wurzel Mammoth Long Red (Beet), Melon Vert Grimpant and Huazontle (Chenopodium). Most seeds have a germination percentage and last tested date. They also offer organic seeds.

Johnny's Selected Seeds is a partially employee-owned company dedicated to rigorous seed testing and top-quality, non-hybrid products.

Kitchen Garden Seeds
Lake Valley Seeds
Livingston Seeds

Local Harvest - A service that helps farmer's and small growers market their produce. flowers, fruit, vegetables, tubers, herbs, trees, bulbs and grains.

Marianna's Heirloom Seeds - TN, heirloom tomato seeds with Italian culinary tomatoes a specialty.

Native Seeds for the Arid Southwest

Natural Gardening Company

New Hope Seed Company

Nichols Garden Nursery - An Oregon based herb and rare seed company.

One Garden Seeds - Offers Certified Organic & Biodynamic Chinese medicinal seeds grown in North America and Certified Organic and Biodynamic North American Indigenous Seeds. Affiliated with the Ozark Botanical Garden and is dedicated to research and conservation of medicinal plants from temperate zones worldwide. Collection of more than 500 medicinal plants.

Peaceful Valley Farm Supply

Penya Seeds - A large selection of unusual and exotic seeds, including a good number of heirloom tomato seeds.
Pine Tree bGarden Seeds - A source for interesting seeds.

Red Rosa Farm - Spencer Indiana

Richters Herbs - Canadian

Sand Hill Preservation Center - Signed Safe Seed Pledge. No GMOs. Ordering only by regular mail. http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/

Seed Savers Exchange Dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds

Seeds of Change - organic seeds, many heirloom varieties

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, offers heirloom varieties tested for performance, flavor and disease resistance. Focuses primarily on plants suited to the Mid-Atlantic, www.southernexposure.com; Vegetables and herbs. Most certified organic, all untreated. 99% of seeds open-pollinated. No GMO. Safe Seed Pledge. Grows 40% of own seed. Also sells bulk. Nice catalog.

Sow True Seed - sowtrue.com, Vegetables, herbs and flowers. Only non-hybrid, untreated, open-pollinated, heirloom and organic seed.Safe Seed Pledge.Asheville, NC

Seed Saver's Exchange

Seeds of Change

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange - Plant heirloom, non-genetically modified seeds is a great way to preserve endangered plant varieties. Sow True https://www.southernexposure.com/
Swallowtail Garden Seeds is a local seed source for us (in Santa Rosa, CA). They offer "untreated" seeds for Vegetables and Flowers and many Heirloom Varieties in the more than 1,200 varieties of seeds offered. 2008 offerings include: Andrew Rahart's Jumbo Red Tomato, Emerald Evergreen Tomato, Purple Calabash Tomato, Watermelon Beefsteak Tomato, San Juan Ananas Melon, Purple Haze Carrot, Yellow Wonder Alpine Strawberry, Fresca Strawberry and Berenice Green Lettuce.

Splendid Seeds - Here are 450 seed varieties from the following companies: Renee's Garden, Botanical Interests, Cornucopia and Katazawa Seeds. www.splendidseeds.com/

We offer only non GMO seeds with as many Heirloom and Organic Seeds as possible.

Sustainable Seed Company - Only heirloom open-pollinated seed. No hybrid, treated or gmos. 65% of all heirloom vegetable seed is grown on organic farms in California.
Over 100 varieties of heirloom seeds http://sustainableseedco.com/

Territorial Seed company offers a variety of certified organic and open-pollinated heirlooms. - http://www.territorialseed.com safeseed pledge

Terroir Seeds/Underwood Gardens- Family owned and operated, Terroir Seeds and its associated gardens, Underwood Gardens, specialize in heirloom, organic and rare seeds, soil building and seed saving.

Tiny Seeds
TomatoFest 600 varieties of certified organic heirloom tomato seeds.
Trees of Antiquity
Underwood Garden Seeds

Uprising Seeds - All seeds are locally grown, 100% organic and open pollinated in the Pacific Northwest. They don't have a huge selection but many heirloom and unusual varities are in their catalog. They offer a few Slow Food Ark of Taste/RAFT seeds like: Hutterite Bush Dry Bean, Lina Cisco's Bird Egg Dry Beans, Speckled Butterhead Lettuce and Red Fig Tomato. Other offerings which caught my eye in 2008 are: Flashy Trout's Back Lettuce, Magentaspreen, Ceylon Tomato, and Golden Sweet Snow Peas (with purple/pink flowers!). They don't have a website but you can email them and they will send you a catalog.

Urban Farmer - Westfield, Indiana

Victory Seed Company is a small, family owned and operated organization that works to preserve plant varieties by locating, growing, documenting and offering rare, open-pollinated, non-GMO, non-hybrid, heirloom seeds to home gardeners. Grow seeds on their farm network of small growers. http://www.victoryseeds.com

Wildseed Farms

Wood Prairie Farm - An Organic Family Farm in Maine. They specialize in heirloom and gourmet organic seed potatoes (including fingerling seed potatoes) but also offer some organic vegetable seeds.

To be certified organic, one must prove and warrant the absence of any transgenic (i.e., the introduction of a gene or trait from one species into another unrelated species) germplasm in the source material and breeding program, as well the absence of any GMO material in the seed production, cleaning, storage, and shipment chain.http://www.ufseeds.com/Our-Company.html

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The Biodynamic Agricultural Association has a small list of Biodynamic Seed sources for Europe.

McKean County Biodynamics
The site of a Master Gardener, it offers just one Biodynamic Cherry Tomato Seed - Highlands Star. Lots of information and links on Biodynamic Gardening.

Brogdale Horticultural Trust - Includes a great online database (UK) of heirloom fruit tree varieties in their collection. Their National Fruit Collection: "This 'living' Collection of temperate fruit varieties is of international renown and is seen as one of the treasures of England for its scientific, horticultural and historic importance." For example, they list over 1800 varieties of apple trees (many with photos of the fruit). Types of Apples, Apricots, Currants, Cherries, Cider Apples, Cobnust, Gooseberries, Crab Apples, Pears, Plums, Quince, Vines, etc. are listed. If you live in the UK you can also buy bare root from them and they also do custom grafting for a fee.

Botanical Interest Seeds - Botanical Interests our goal is to inspire and educate the gardener in you so that you can create beautiful and prolific gardens. Not only is the seed inside our packets the highest quality available, our packets are designed to give you the information you need to be a more successful gardener!
" Over 500 high-quality varieties (150 organic heirloom)
" Many heirloom seed varieties
" A large selection of USDA Certified Organic seed varieties (learn more about organic seed)
" Guaranteed - the germination rate of every variety is tested before we package it
" All our seed is untreated
" No GMOs - we enthusiastically signed the SAFE SEED PLEDGE: We do not knowingly buy or sell genetically engineered seeds or plants - https://botanicalinterests.com/

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Safe Seed Pledge

http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_
main.htm?modecode=54-02-05-00

Safe Seed Resource List - Resource for GM-free Seeds http://www.councilforresponsible
genetics.org/
ViewPage.aspx?pageId=261

The Organic Seed Alliance
Based in Port Townsend, WA, they are a non-profit organization who "...supports the ethical development and stewardship of the genetic resources of agricultural seed". They offer a huge database of seed producers on their website (free reg. req.). They also hold workshops in the Pacific Northwest and host a biannual Seed Grower's Conference.

(5th Ed) by Karen Platt - This U.K. book lists "sources for 40,000 flowering seeds including all types of flowering plants and more than 9,500 vegetables. Includes open-pollinated, untreated, heirloom and organic seed, many rare species." And contact information for 500 world-wide suppliers are included.

The Plimoth Plantation Museum Seeds
Kitchen, Heirloom and Native seeds traditional to a 17th Century garden. From betony to woad, alexanders to dipper gourd. A limited selection but an interesting one.

Eastern Native Seed Conservancy
Home of the CRESS Heirloom Seed Conservation Project, and the Native Seeds Project. Their mission is to preserve rare genetic stock and offers to the public a sampling. In some cases they are the only catalog offering some of these seeds, and in some cases one of the only places preserving these seeds - some are rare, very rare or even endangered seeds. Really unusual selection of native beans, corn, squash and sunflowers as well as really interesting melons and tomatoes. If you are looking for really unusual varieties to grow start here - plus you'll be supporting the conservation of the varieties. Based in Great Barrington, Mass. Update: They no longer sell seeds.

Seeds of Diversity - Canada's Heritage Seed Program
The members collect and share over 1900 varieties of fruits and vegetables. Check out their Heritage Plants Database - which lists flower, fruit and vegetable seeds available in Canada (with links to where they are sold). They also offers a good list of Canadian Seed sources.

Biodynamic Association of Quebec