Donations
If you are able to make a larger contribution, we would receive it with gratitude and continue the seed distro endeavors! Thank you!
This is a complete list of our seeds available for distribution in 2022 and quantities greatly vary (for example, we may begin with 500 packages of Scarlet Runner beans but only 120 of Leeks ). This is intended to give an idea of what may be possible rather than what you will actually access.
Lettuce mix (includes 6+ varieties)
Kale Mix (includes 4 varieties)
Rainbow Chard
Sunflower mix (6+ varieties inc mammoth, red, branching etc)
Flower mix (includes 6-10 varieties)
Rainbow Carrot mix (orange, red, yellow, white, purple)
Andover Parsnip
Cherokee Trail of Tears bean
French Climbing Bean
Finney Homestead Bean
Scarlett Runner Bean
Cranberry Pole Bean
Turkey Craw Pole Bean
Soup Pea
Hidatsa Shield Figure Pole Bean
Hot Pepper Mix (includes 6+ varieties)
Heirloom slicer tomato mix (includes about 15 varieties in a rainbow of colors)
Tomatillo (green and purple)
Cucumber mix (slicers including lemon cukes)
Winter Squash Mix (includes a few varieties)
Painted Mountain Corn (colorful corn for grinding, not sweet corn)
Basil (includes four varieties, two purple and two green)
King Sieg Leek
Broccoli Open Pollinated Mix (mostly two varieties best suited for fall)
Celery (contains a green variety and a red variety)
Rhutabaga
Turnip
Herb Garden Mix
Shirofumi Soybean
Black Kabouli Garbanzo Beans
Seed Distro
About our seed program
One of our primary endeavors is our Seed Distro project. This project began around 2005, when we packaged up some of our homegrown seeds to share at the Okanogan Family Faire. It was such a success that we continued to grow and package seed, expanding our project and reach.
Over the years, our program as expanded. We now grow, package, and distribute around 10k packages of heirloom, open pollinated, organic seed at no charge each year. We mostly work with food banks, schools, community gardens, and low income households, but really...anyone can request some free seed for their project.
People often ask us why we don't sell our seed? Basically, we just want more people to grow their own food. We want organizations to help people learn to grow food and provide garden space for people who have none. We want heirloom varieties to be preserved, and to encourage species diversity for the health of our planet and people. So, we give our seed away to those who need it and will make use of it.
Our budget is tiny because it comes from the pockets of the volunteers who do the work.
We stretch every penny and rely entirely on volunteers for growing, processing, packaging, and distributing seed. Currently, about 5% of our budget comes from outside donations at events but we'd love to have more help with this project. If you'd like to make a monetary donation, please visit https://gofund.me/596e651f
You can check out a little video about our project here
This one is an older version, from 2014
