Ancient Seeds for Modern Needs...
Native Seeds/SEARCH conserves, distributes and documents the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seeds, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwest and northwest Mexico. We promote the use of these ancient crops and their wild relatives by gathering, safeguarding, and distributing their seeds to farming and gardening communities. We also work to preserve knowledge about their uses.

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Adopt-a-crop
Adopt your favorite crop!
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online store

Our online store has all of the varieties available, while the Seedlisting Catalog has those most often requested.

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events

The World of Herbs
a lecture series by Pat Kenny
When: March 2-6, 2009; 9-11AM each day
Where: University of Arizona's BI05 Building – Room 103
Pat will discuss and give demonstrations on a wide variety of herbal topics including: Gardening with herbs and designing an herb garden; Container herb gardening for gourmet cooking; Native American, Southwest, and winter herbs; Plants that add color to your garden.
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news

Basha's Shop and Give Program
From 1 September 2008 to 31 March 2009, Native Seeds is participating in Basha's Shop and Give Program. Please use our ID number 27478 along with your Thank You Card to take advantage of Basha's offer to donate 1% of the total sales linked to each group's ID number.
December 2008. NS/S was interviewed by Kitchen Caravan
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our work

From orchards to seed programs and conservation and food, NS/S is fully engaged in the world of seeds.
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