Showing posts with label vegetable seeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegetable seeds. Show all posts

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Heritage and Heirloom Seeds and Organic Sites around the country and Kentucky

Well. I’m getting ready to order seeds for my garden, The Garden Spot. I want heritage seeds this year, so I can cut back on the cost of buying seeds PLUS try out some really good kinds of vegetables and flowers. Last year I bought some a flat of plants from the local Farmer’s Market, and one was a heritage striped tomato. It tasted so flavorful! Plus, it was pretty.

I researched websites today and found a lot of interesting plants that I like and want to explore more. If anyone else is looking for organic food and/or seeds, these links may be helpful. NOW I want to eventually do a page on each one, and pick the ones I like best.

I just have scratched the surface here. I want to do more research later on.

LOCAL – KENTUCKY
Kentucky only
Farmers Market Directory
http://www.kyagr.com/marketing/farmmarket/directory.htm

Agriculture links
http://www.kyagr.com/forms/aglinks.htm

FOR EVERYONE –
ORGANIC AND HEIRLOOM SEEDS

Grandma’s Gardens –
has a catalog you can order –
also carries endangered species seeds
http://underwoodgardens.com/index1.php

Redwood City Seed Company
California
http://www.ecoseeds.com

The International Seed Saving Institute
http://www.seedsave.org/

Seeds Trust for high altitude gardens
http://www.seedstrust.com/

Flowers from nursery sources
by the Brooklyn Botanical Garden
http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/plants/handbooks/flowers/9.html

Redwood City Seed (California)
specializes in pepper varieties
http://www.lovepeppers.com/catalog.welcome.html

Baker Creek Heirloom seeds
http://www.rareseeds.com/

Heirloom tomato seeds – with letter codes indicating resistance
to different diseases – includes Seed Swap 101, how to swap seeds.
http://www.vegetableseedwarehouse.com/heirtom/html

Fantastic Findings lists of seeds
http://www.fantasticfindings.com/results.aspx?cat=seeds

Heirloom Acres
http://www.heirloomacresseeds.com/
Takes PayPal! (Which I like because I already have it...)

Whatcom rare seeds
http://seedrack.com/

Sources for organic and heirloom seeds by mail:
http://www.heirloomseeds.com/organic.html

Heirloom flower bulbs
http://www.oldhousegardens.com/

Heirloom seeds on Ebay
http://stores.ebay.com/Blue-Ribbon-Tomatoes_seeds_W0QQfsubZ2QQstorecachemissZblueribbontomatoesQ5fseedsQQtZkm

The Heirloom Sampler site –
shows pictures of heirloom varieties
and explains about each
The Heirloom Vegetable Gardener's Assistant
http://www.halcyon.com/tmend/sampler.htm

Amishland Heirloom Seeds
http://www.amishlandseeds.com/index.htm

Thomas Jefferson’s seeds
from Monticello
http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/plants---seeds-seeds.html

Bill Best’s article from Appalachian Heritage magazine
http://www.heirlooms.org/beans.html
features descriptions of heritage beans from Kentucky
You pick out the kinds you want and then send them a check.
http://www.heirlooms.org/catalog.html

Local Harvest Seeds
http://www.localharvest.org/store/seeds.jsp
also: herbs, honey products, soaps, more

Rutgers University tomatoes
include the newly brought back Ramapo tomato:
http://www.njfarmfresh.rutgers.edu/JerseyTomato.html

Grow Shitake mushrooms
http://www.mushroompeople.com/

REGIONAL SEED EXCHANGES

Saving, storing, and growing seeds
http://www.freetechsupport.com/csr/seeds.htm

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
http://www.southernexposure.com/index.html

Seed exchange for each state
http://www.blossomswap.com/exchanges

FARMERS PRODUCE SHARE CO-OPS
AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE SITES

Local Harvest – buy foods grown close to your location
http://www.localharvest.org/

The Farm Eco-Village Training Center
offers classes and apprenticeships
2008 Calendar
http://www.thefarm.org/general/calendar.html

INTERNSHIPS

Sustainable farming internships
http://www.attrainternships.ncat.org/

ORGANIC FOOD STORES
Goodness Greeness
http://www.goodnessgreeness.com/

INTERNATIONAL GROUPS

Equal Exchange
Massachusetts
A Fair Trade site – coffee a specialty
http://www.equalexchange.com

Global Exchange
includes Fair Trade, too
http://www.globalexchange.org/