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• Abundant Life Seed Foundation - Promoting the conservation and use of heirloom, native and rare seeds.

• Allies - "Jane Straight's" catalog is the mailorder nursery half of the old "...of the jungle" catalog, the first such catalog to offer a wide variety of entheogens and ethnobotanicals.

  P.O. Box 2422
  Sebastopol, CA 95473
  Catalog: $2

• Angelgrove Tree Seed Company - Over 135 varieties of tree seeds for Japanese trees, flowering trees, ornamental, shade and native trees, bonsai and garden seeds for shrub roses and flowering vines.

• AppleKrisp Nursery - Over 50 antique and popular varieties of apples.

• Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds - A whopping load of heirloom varieties, including 35(!!!) eggplants and 32 watermelons.

• The Banana Tree

• Beckers Seed Potatoes
  RR #1
  Trout Creek, Ontario P0H2l0
  Ph: 705-724-2305
  FAX: 705-724-1392

  A large selection of elite seed potatoes including many heirlooms; free catalog gives descriptions, places and dates of introduction.

• Bean Bag - Over 85 varieties of heirloom beans.

• Big Horse Creek Farm - Specializing in Southern Appalachian Apple Trees, Sue and Ron Joyner in Lansing, North Carolina custom-graft hundreds of heirloom varieties.

• Bountiful Gardens - Sells untreated open-pollinated seed of heirloom quality for vegetables, herbs, flowers, grains, green manures, compost and carbon crops.

• B&T World Seeds - More than 30,000 plant species or varieties in the world's most extensive commercial seed catalog.

• Companion Plants - A very impressive variety of herbs. Recommended.

• The Cook's Garden - Seeds and supplies for the new American family garden.

• Cummins Nursery - Cummins Nursery is a family run fruit tree nursery located in Geneva, New York, offering dozens of heirloom varieties and traditional cider varieties.

• Deep Diversity Seed - Nearly 1000 varieties of seeds, emphasizing biodiversiity.

• Le Facteur - A most unusual, wonderful seed catalog - philosophical, quirky, full of delightful quotations, odd illustrations and incredible seeds.

  C.P. 50526
  Carrefour Pelletier, Brossard, Quebec J4X2V7
  Catalog: $4 US

• Eden Organic Nursery Services - Open-pollinated and hybrid seeds for peppers, organic tobacco, medicinal and healing plants, vegetables, vines, tropical plants, organic gardening supplies and pest control.

• Thomas Etty Esq. - Online Seed catalog with heirloom seeds dating back to medieval times.

• Evergreen Seeds - More than 250 varieties of Oriental vegetable seeds, including 13 varieties of eggplant.

• Filaree Farm - Over 100 unique strains of seed garlic.

• Forestfarm - Massive catalog ($4.00), excellent selection of trees & shrubs, some perennials. High quality stuff.

• Fox Hollow Seed Company - More than 100 herbs among the vegetable seeds.

• Garden City Seeds - Northern-acclimated, open-pollinated, untreated seeds.

• GardenMakers - Specializes in unusual and hard-to-find flower seed, e.g. alpines, woodland plants, ornamental grasses and primulas.

• Garden Medicinals and Culinaries

• Gardens North - Excellent selection of seed of hardy perennials and woody plants. Lots of rarities and staunch supporters of the dissemination of plant diversity and research into seed germination.

• Gourmet Gardener - A premier collection of herb, vegetable and edible flower seeds from around the world.

• Graines Baumaux - French company with a huge selection of vegetable and flower seeds both organic and chemical. Catalog is in French.

• Great Basin Seed Company - Seeds adapted to harsh, arid environments, e.g. deserts.

• GreenDealer - Exotic seeds of the world.

• Halcyon Seeds - Suppliers of seeds of unusual and exotic salad leaves and herbs.

• Heirloom Edibles - Special Interest in Heirloom vegetable varieties for the home gardener.

• Heirloom Seeds - The best source for heirloom vegetable, flower and herb seeds.

• Heirloom Tomatoes - A buttload of heirloom tomatoes.

• High Altitude Gardens - The 18 year-old, bioregional seed company specializing in online sale of non-hybrid, heirloom, vegetable, herb, native grass and wildflower seeds.

• High Mowing Organic Seeds - Biodynamically grown seed for the northeast; open pollinated varieties.

• Horizon Herbs - Large selection of medicinal plant seed.

• J. L. Hudson, Seedsman - Browsing thru this ethnobotanical catalog is like taking a botanical journey around the world. There is a fantastic selection of exotic foreign rare and heirloom seeds. All seeds are open-pollinated public domain.

• Inner Coast Nursery - Organic growers of over 300 varieties of rare, heritage and exceptional fruit trees.

• Irish Eyes - This is also listed as Garden City Seeds, although I list it separately for its huge list of available potatoes, which it obtained when it absorbed to now-defunct Ronninger's Potatoes company.

• Le Jardin du Gourmet - Our mail order/seed company specializes in 30¢ sample seed packets, in many varieties of herbs, vegetables and flowers.

• Johnny's Selected Seeds

• Legendary Ethnobotanical Resources - A large selection of uncommon ethnobotanical species.

• Logee's Greenhouses - Fine selection of greenhouse plants.

• Marianna's Heirloom Seeds - Culinary and heirloom tomato, pepper and eggplant seeds, including 17 of the latter.

• Native Seeds/SEARCH - A non-profit organization that seeks to preserve the crop seeds that connect Native American cultures to their lands. Seed conservation which focuses on the traditional native crops of the U.S. SW and Mex. NE.

• Natural Gardening Company - Oldest certified organic nursery in the U.S.

• New England Seed Company - Oldest seed company in the U.S.; very large selection of heirloom vegetable seeds.

• Nichols Garden Nursery - You will find the finest and most interesting selection of vegetables, herbs and flowers from around the world.

• Oregon Exotics - A very unique mail-order nursery specializing in exotic food plants, with a very fine 98 page ethnobotanical catalogue with plants most people have never heard of, much less tasted or grown. A very valuable resource for anyone interested in ethnobotany.

  1065 Messinger Rd.
  Grants Pass, OR 97527
  541-846-7578
  Catalog: $4

• Paradise Gardens Rare Plant Nursery

• Peaceful Valley Farm Supply - Cover crops, fertilizers, natural pest control, and organic farming and gardening supplies.

• Pepper Joe's

• Peters Seed and Research - Open pollinated seeds; perennial grains.

• Pinetree Garden Seeds - Specializes in providing appropriate-size packets for home gardeners.

• Prairie Garden Seeds - Very diverse catalog of seeds, with a great selection of vegetables, annuals and perennials. Organically grown open-pollinated seed for short season, dryland growing.

• Purcell Mountain Farms - Exotic beans and lentils for the culinary friend.

• Redwood City Seed Company - The world's oldest alternative seed company, with all open-pollinated, non-hybrid, traditional old-fashioned vegetables and herbs. One of the best selections of hot peppers to be found.

• Richters - Probably has the most extensive listing in North America of medicinal plants and seeds. Highly recommended.

• Seedman - A seed business serving home gardeners, University botanical departments and research facilities world wide.

• Seeds of Change - 100% certified organic.

• Seeds of Distinction - Source for unusual, and hard to find seeds from the gardens of the world.

• Seeds of Diversity - mail@seeds.ca A grassroots seed exchange whose members offer seeds and bulbs of heirloom and scarce varieties of vegetables fruits grains herbs and flowers.

• Seeds of Italy

• Seed Savers Exchange

• Seeds for the South - Vegetable Garden Seeds Including Open-pollinated Seeds, Heirloom Seeds, and Hybrid Seeds.

• Seeds of Victoria - Organically grown, locally harvested flowers, vegetables and herbs. Specialising in heritage and hard to find varieties of old-fashioned plants.

• Seeds West - Sells only Organic or Untreated Seed and specializes in Heirloom and Open-pollinated Vegetables, Chile Peppers, Culinary Herbs, Traditional Old-fashioned Cottage Annuals and Native Western Wildflower Seeds.

• Shepherd's Garden Seeds - A marvelous array of vegetable and flower seeds.

• Siloam Orchards - Heritage disease-resistant fruit trees, including apples, plums, pears, peach, and cherry. Small fruits include gooseberries,cherry plums, blueberries, currants, asparagus and horseradish. Over a hundred varieties of apple trees.

• Sonoma Antique Apple Nursery

• Southern Exposure Seed Exchange - Although we emphasize varieties adapted to the Mid-Atlantic region, we serve gardeners throughout the United States and Canada.

• Southmeadow Fruit Gardens - Established to make available choice and superior varieties of fruit trees and plants for the connoisseur and home gardener. Sells over 200 apple varieties, including English cider apples, many North America heirloom varieties, and several European varieties.

• St. Lawrence Nurseries - ince the 1920s, this family-run operation in Potsdam, New York, has been specializing in fruit trees. The 120 apple varieties offered include many antiques.

• Synergy Seeds - Extensive Heirloom grain and edible seedcrop cultivars, medicinals, florals as well as our many rare and unusual heirloom legumes & vegetables nurtured and developed for Nature Farming over the past 15 years in Northern California.

• Theatricum Botanicum

• Tomato Growers Supply Company - More than 500 tomatoes and peppers, including huge selections of both hybrid and heirloom tomatoes, hot chilis, sweet peppers and tomatillos, plus garden supplies, garden books, and posters.

• Tough Love Chile Company - Dozens of hot chile pepper varieties.

• Underwood Gardens - Many heirloom varieties.

• Veseys - Hundreds of varieties of vegetables, herbs, flowers, many hard to find elsewhere.

• Victory Seeds - Open pollinated and heirloom seeds.

• Willhite Seed Company - More kinds of watermelon seeds than you could spit in a month.

• Dave Wilson Nursery - Hundreds of varieties of apples, cherries, pears, figs, peaches, etc.

• World Seed - Over 1,000 varieties of flowers, vegetables and herbs, including many Italian and British varieties.

• World Wide Seed Company

California Rare Fruit Growers

Founded in 1968, California Rare Fruit Growers (CRFG) is the largest amateur fruit-growing organization in the world, with members in 48 states and U.S. territories, and 30 countries. The worldwide membership of CRFG includes many nationally recognized botanical gardens, rare fruit enthusiasts, commercial fruit growers, and internationally recognized horticultural researchers. The organization has a general interest in all aspects of fruit growing with a primary focus on semitropical fruits and uncommon fruits and vegetables.

The Seed Guild

The Seed Guild buys seed from botanic gardens all over the world and makes them available to amateur gardeners and commercial outlets so they can have the opportunity to obtain unusual and sometimes rare seeds which are not generally on commercial seed lists.

GardenNet

An online source for gardeners.

GardenWeb

Like the GardenNet only a Web.

Plants for a Future

A resource and information center for edible and other useful plants. It is a project to gather together and disseminate information on the many useful properties of plants, particularly those plants which are less common.

The Cyber-Plantsman

Valuable and interesting information for the serious gardener. This includes profiles of plant societies, lists of events, book reviews, interviews, and sources for rare plants and seeds.

Phytochemical and Ethnobotany Databases

Browsable adn searchable databases of plant chemicals and worldwide uses of plants. Includes Native American medicinal and food plants.