15% off Holiday Coupon

Give the gift of seeds!

 Seeds Trust is ready for the holiday season! We are thinking up gift ideas left and right! Now, we have an admitted bias, but we just can’t think of a better gift than seeds! Check out our High Altitude, Southwest, and Seeds Trust buckets. They make excellent gifts for any level gardener and come with our Seed Saving Basics book. We also have small cans of seeds containing 16 packets perfect for stocking stuffers! Seeds Trust gift certificates are always a lovely gift and can be redeemed any time. We are offering a 15% discount coupon on all orders from the 2nd through the 12th of December! Just enter in promo code JULIA (the newest member of our Seeds Trust team). Ho Ho Ho!

Seed School

"Regional, Sustainable, Diverse. Inspiring Gardeners to Think Seeds First!"

Next Seed School - Native Seeds/SEARCH, October 30th - November 4th.  Click here for more information.

Plant Seeds, Harvest Change

dedicated to teaching you to save your own seeds, grow a delicious home garden and create stunning native landscapes.  We sell heirloom seeds (passed on from generation to generation), open-pollinated seeds (will reproduce true to form) and organic vegetable, native wildflower, native grass and medicinal herb seeds. Search the entire Seeds Trust online seed catalog and enhance your selections with the seed catalogs listed below.  Landscape professionals will be happy to find the list of all our wildflower, herb and grass selections sorted by scientific names.

Bill McDorman, President

Bill McDorman, President
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High Altitude Gardens has been our resource since 1984 for thousands of extreme gardeners looking for exceptional flavor and trusted reliability in the coldest climates and shortest seasons.  Bill and his father represent a total of more than 50 years experience growing gardens and seeds at high elevation.

Seeds Trust Southwest is our newest venture. Since moving to the high desert of Arizona, we have made some fascinating discoveries. Many of our high altitude seeds do amazingly well in hot, dry places. Many seem to be adapted to extreme climates. Not only are they cold tolerant, many are heat tolerant as well. We will continue to test in our new desert Seeds Trust gardens as well as continue to gather information about cold tolerance from mountain locations. Outstanding varieties will be offered to you.  We are excited.

The story of glass gem corn.  Seedsman Greg Schoen got the seed from Carl Barnes, a part-Cherokee man, now in his 80's, in Oklahoma.  He was Greg's "corn-teacher".   Greg was in the process of moving last year and wanted someone else to store and protect some of his seeds.  He left samples of several corn varieties, including glass gem.  I  grew out a small handful this past summer just to see.  The rest, as they say is history.  I got so excited, I posted a picture on Facebook.  We have never seen anything like this.  Unfortunately, we did not grow out enough to sell.  Look for a small amount for sale starting in August 2011.   Thanks,  bill

Seeds Trust is probably most famous for its trip behind the Iron Curtain in 1989. President Bill McDorman personally carried back over 60 varieties of delicious tomatoes from Siberia and also made a good friend along the way.

Organic, heirloom, and native seeds are quickly increasing in popularity. Seeds Trust offers tips for understanding and purchasing these seeds.

Project Self Reliance (PSR) is our educational, non-profit organization providing sustainably oriented social services and programs for the community-at-large and youth-at-risk.

International Seed Saving Institute (ISSI), a branch of Project Self Reliance, is dedicated to saving seeds, seed-saving education, seed banks and self-reliance for peoples world-wide.