Seed Companies in the US
Recommended Seed Sources for getting started with Landrace Gardening:
Look for “mix”, “grex”, or “landrace” from these companies, if available. The first seven companies are selling Joseph’s seeds, or descendants of them.
Experimental Farm Network
Giving Ground Seeds
The Buffalo Seed Company
Snake River Seed Cooperative
Wild Mountain Seeds
High Ground Gardens
Miss Penn’s Mountain Seeds
MASA Seed Foundation
Native Seeds SEARCH
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Adaptive Seeds
Seeds Trust
Cultivariable (for potato and tuber seeds)
Pinetree Garden Seeds sells mixed varieties in the same packet. This is a great way to get genetic diversity while minimizing cost.
(Everything below is added from the Thinkific Community. This is not comprehensive, feel free to add, edit, and add links to names where there are none, if you have “trust level 4” or admin powers)
Comprehensive spreadsheet compiled by Megan G: Link Here
Oregon Seed Companies
Peace Seedlings. This is the daughter company from peace seeds; literally, owned by Alan Kapuler’s daughter, Dylana Kapuler and Mario DiBenedetto.
Siskiyou Seeds
Nichols Garden Nursery
Adaptive seeds
Wild Garden Seeds
J L Hudson Seedsman
Garlic
Garlicana
Avram sells garlic and shallots. He does a lot of garlic breeding for better TGS germination and useful qualities.
Seed Saver’s Exchange with Sylvia Davatz - even included a kind note back and a few extra seed packets.
Minnesota
Seed Treasures
Companies that say where their seeds are sourced:
Snake River Seeds
Triple Divide Seeds
Turtle Tree grows most of their own seeds and lists the growers for each crop in their paper catalog: Growers · Turtle Tree Seed Initiative
Native Seeds Search specializes in seeds locally adapted to the desert southwest –
Fedco does a pretty good job with it: catalog codes - Fedco Seeds
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange lists their growers.
Fruition Seeds is a company with a focus on supplying regionally adapted seeds.
Canada
Getting Free Seeds:
If you’re starting out and looking for seeds, there are lots of seed swap groups on facebook, international and local. If you do a search for “seed swap” or “free seeds” or “seed swap + (plant type)” you’ll often get several relevant groups.
Share and Swap
Canada Seedfinder – This is a tool to find specific cultivars in Canadian seed companies. It’s not comprehensive and it can be a little outdates but I’ve found it useful.