Best Seed Catalogs

MY FAVORITE ORGANIC SEED CATALOGS in the USA

All companies have signed the Safe Seed Pledge- a written commitment to sell only non-GMO seed.

While there are hundreds of companies that have signed the Safe Seed Pledge, the ones that are featured below each have something extra special about their mission, their catalog, or their business practices that fosters greater sustainability for people and planet. Each of these companies specialize in rare seed preservation, or they are employee-owned, or they focus on seeds that are adapted to a particular climate.

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Baker Creek is a family-owned business offering a gorgeous catalog and website with over 1,800 varieties of vegetables, flowers and herbs—one of the largest selections of heirloom varieties in the U.S.

 Fedco Seeds

Fedco is a cooperative business where consumer members own 60 percent, and employee members own 40 percent. Because the cooperative doesn’t have an individual owner, profit isn’t its primary goal, so their seeds and other products are quite affordable. Fedco evaluates hundreds of varieties of hybrid, open-pollinated and heirloom seeds and plants at multiple sites, identifying the ones that are particularly productive, flavorful and suited to the northeastern U.S. climate.

Clear Creek

Clear Creek is a small, family-owned business, specializing exclusively in open-pollinated, heirloom seed varieties, including flowers, herbs and vegetables. They also offer several variety packs for even more value, like the Pollinator Pack and the Salsa Pack.

Territorial Seed Company

Territorial Seed is a large, family-owned company whose mission is to improve people’s self-sufficiency and independence by enabling gardeners to produce an abundance of good tasting, fresh-from-the-garden food. They trial and evaluate all their seeds at their farms, and the live plants that they offer are raised in their farm greenhouses. They offer hybrid, open-pollinated and heirloom seed varieties.

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange offers more than 700 varieties of vegetable, flower, herb, grain and cover crop seeds. They emphasize varieties that perform well in the mid-atlantic and the southeast, and offer many unusual Southern heirlooms, such as yacon, amaranths including peanuts, southern peas, naturally colored cotton, collards, okra, roselle, turnip greens, corns for roasting and meal, and butterbeans.

Renee’s Garden Seeds

Renee’s Garden Seeds is a small company run by gardeners for gardeners. Renee Shepherd personally hand-picks and sells only the varieties that are very special for home gardeners, based on great flavor, easy culture and exceptional garden performance. All their seeds are time-tested heirlooms, the best international hybrids or fine open-pollinated varieties tested and guaranteed for every major U.S. climate zone.

Peaceful Valley Farm & Garden Supply

Peaceful Valley is a seed company dedicated to organic food production that carries a large assortment of veggie seeds, cover crops, native grasses, pasture and lawn seed, wildflowers, fruit trees and berries, potatoes, onions and garlic. They also offer a great selection of gardening tools, pest control, season-extending products, composting supplies, growing, propagating and irrigation equipment, and books.

Johnny’s Selected Seeds

Johnny’s is a large, well-known employed-ownedseed company that has more than 1,200 varieties of hybrid, open pollinated and heirloom vegetables, medicinal, culinary herbs and flowers, including a few varieties they have developed and patented themselves. If you are homesteading, farming or market gardening, they offer large quantities of seed, as well as a variety of cover crops to keep your soil in good shape.

Seed Savers Exchange

 The Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) is a non-profit organizationworking to save heirloom garden seed from extinction. Their focus is on preserving varieties of seed that gardeners and farmers bring to North America when their families immigrated and traditional varieties grown by American Indians, Mennonites and the Amish.

Hudson Valley Seed Library

The Hudson Valley Seed Library, based in New York’s Hudson Valley, offers heirloom and open-pollinated vegetable, flower and herb seed as well as tools, supplies, and garden-themed contemporary art. Many of their seeds are grown on their own small organic farm, where they preserve old varieties and develop new ones by traditional methods of seed selection, or by local farmers. None are sourced from multinational biotech companies.