Why a
seed bank

Most seed sold to home growers is hybrid: high performing in year one, useless for saving. That is not an accident — it is a business model. A gardener who saves seed is not a repeat customer.

We think that trade is bad for growers and worse for the gene pool. The varieties that survive are the ones somebody kept growing and kept saving.

So this is a small open-pollinated catalogue. Eighteen crops, fifty-nine varieties, all of which you can save from, replant and share. We publish the isolation distance and the germination range for each one because those numbers are what decide whether your saved seed comes true.

What we are not

We are not a registered seed merchant supplying certified commercial agricultural seed. We are not selling hybrids. And we are not selling anything gene-edited — every variety here is a named open-pollinated line with a history.