We’re Seeking Seed Partnerships
Are you a farmer or market grower generating seed?
We’d love to work with you on receiving your seed, sending it out for germination testing, labeling it, and then distributing it. We begin our agreements considering a 50/50 split of gross revenue and will consider as much as an 80/20 split in favor of the grower.
You can read through our standards for accepting and selling native seeds and our DRAFT standards for vegetable, fruit, and flower seeds.
You can also take a look at a template of the agreement that we like to use, though we’re flexible and generate agreements specific to each grower and our relationship.
Are you stewarding a unique seed or breeding a new variety?
In addition to working out an arrangement described above, we’d also love to give you a percentage of gross revenue from seedling sales. We’d grow out some of these seeds to offer seedlings to our fine gardening clients and colleagues in the trade.
We are available to do fundraising and grant writing to support your stewardship and breeding efforts.
In approaching this type of agreement, we’d start from scratch by inquiring about your costs of production and the revenue you require to sustain this work.
Do you have the space and flexibility to accept 200 starts of native plants?
Whether you’re a residential home owner, land owner, member of land stewardship organization, we’d love to partner with you to start and tend seed plots. These plots are planted with starts grown from seed whose genetics have been confirmed to be native ecotypes through comprehensive lab testing.
Our fine gardening team would pop in a few times a season to check on the seed plot, and then to harvest seeds once they mature. We’d work out an arrangement specific to your needs and your property.
Do you have incredible native plants growing on your private property?
We’d love to collect seed from your property, or accept seed that you collect yourself!
In order to describe any particular plant as a “native ecotype,” we would pursue a process of confirming a seed’s genetics and then banking the seed according to the standards outlined in the Bureau of Land Management’s Seeds of Success protocols. This includes working with the local herbaria on testing the seed and working with a specialty lab for germination testing.