Adopt-a-Variety
***Coming Soon***
If you would like to support our educational efforts and work collecting, growing, and sharing Southern Appalachian heirloom seeds, please consider adopting! Getting William to sell any of the seeds he has collected and grown out over the years is like pulling teeth, but he was more amenable to the idea of people paying an adoption fee. In reality, he is very much looking for people to commit to stewardship of these varieties. Already, he has collected more seeds than he could grow out over the course of his expected remaining gardening seasons. They deserve to live, thrive, and adapt to the very real challenges that we will face future. Sleeping in a freezer they can't do that.
Every year we will offer up a very limited number of old-time seeds from our seed plots to good forever gardens. (You do not need a fenced in yard or a letter from your landlord). You'll receive a certificate of adoption, a letter of thanks, and a simple recipe! (Sometimes the recipes are heirlooms in their own right.)
Many of these are very old "landraces" that are prone to sometimes sporting or producing offspring that are not "true-to-type." We don't think of that as a bad thing, in fact, it often means these seeds carry the genetic potential for adapting to disease and climactic pressures. As you save seed every year, they'll be better able to adapt to your particular area. It's also just very exciting to see how the genetics will express themselves differently every year.
If you would like to support our educational efforts and work collecting, growing, and sharing Southern Appalachian heirloom seeds, please consider adopting! Getting William to sell any of the seeds he has collected and grown out over the years is like pulling teeth, but he was more amenable to the idea of people paying an adoption fee. In reality, he is very much looking for people to commit to stewardship of these varieties. Already, he has collected more seeds than he could grow out over the course of his expected remaining gardening seasons. They deserve to live, thrive, and adapt to the very real challenges that we will face future. Sleeping in a freezer they can't do that.
Every year we will offer up a very limited number of old-time seeds from our seed plots to good forever gardens. (You do not need a fenced in yard or a letter from your landlord). You'll receive a certificate of adoption, a letter of thanks, and a simple recipe! (Sometimes the recipes are heirlooms in their own right.)
Many of these are very old "landraces" that are prone to sometimes sporting or producing offspring that are not "true-to-type." We don't think of that as a bad thing, in fact, it often means these seeds carry the genetic potential for adapting to disease and climactic pressures. As you save seed every year, they'll be better able to adapt to your particular area. It's also just very exciting to see how the genetics will express themselves differently every year.
