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List Of Seed Packet Companies
This is a list of the major seed packet companies. Seed packets or packages include seeds for flowers, fruit, or vegetables and are typically sold to amateur gardeners. The seed packets generally include plant information and planting instructions on the label. *Back to the Roots, established in 2009 *Botanical Interests, established in 1995 *Burpee Seeds, established in 1876 * D. Landreth Seed Company, established 1784 * Fedco Seeds, established in 1978 * Ferry-Morse Seed Company, established in 1856 * Gurney's Seed and Nursery Company, established in 1866 *Harris Seeds, established in 1879 *Hudson Valley Seed Company, established in 2009 * J.W. Jung Seed Company, established in 1907 * McKenzie Seeds, established in 1896 * Park Seed Company, established in 1868 * R. H. Shumway, established in 1870 * Seeds of Change, established in 1989 * Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, established in 1983 * True Leaf Market, established in 1974 * Wildseed Farms, established in 1983 See a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burpee Seeds And Plants
Burpee Seeds and Plants, officially W. Atlee Burpee & Co., is an American Seed company, seed and plant company that was founded by Washington Atlee Burpee in Pennsylvania in 1876. History Early years (1876-1915) W. Atlee Burpee & Company was founded in 1876 by Washington Atlee Burpee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after starting a mail-order chicken business in 1876. The company expanded to selling garden seeds, farm supplies, tools and hogs after customers began asking for seeds they had grown in their native farms. In 1888, the family farm, Fordhook Farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, was established as a family farm and crop field trials after Burpee began traveling to Europe to collect seeds which needed to be adapted to North American climates. The farm was likely the first experimental test field station in the United States. In 1900, distant cousin Luther Burbank visited the farm inspiring him to create his own experiments. He later created additional research stations, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fedco Seeds
Fedco Seeds is a seed company based in Clinton, Maine and founded by C.R. Lawn in 1978. The company is a major supplier of vegetable seeds in the United States, and specializes in varieties for northern growers and short growing seasons. They sell seeds, trees, and bulbs. The Fedco catalog was founded during the Back-to-the-land movement, becoming a fixture in the movement's continuation. Fedco Seeds is a cooperative owned 60% by customers and 40% by employees. Fedco is a signatory of the " Safe Seed Pledge", which commits them to selling non GMO seed. During the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ..., Fedco saw a massive increase in sales during the 2020 and 2021 season. References External links * {{US seed companies Seed companies Agricul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferry-Morse Seed Company
The Ferry-Morse Seed Company is a supplier of seeds, and was at one time the largest such company in the world. It is currently part of Green Garden Products, a privately owned gardening company based in Massachusetts. D.M. Ferry & Co. In 1856, Milo T. Gardner, Dexter M. Ferry, and Eber F. Church organized a small seed-growing company, M.T. Gardner & Company (also known as Gardner, Ferry, and Church) in Detroit, Michigan. The first year the company did $6,000 in business. Its profits continued to be stable until 1865, when Ferry bought out Gardner's share and took over the company. Ferry changed the company name to Ferry, Church & Co, and two years later, when Church retired, Ferry changed the name again, this time to D.M. Ferry & Co. The business grew steadily and, in 1879, was incorporated under the name D.M. Ferry & Co with $750,000 in capital, and Ferry as president, James McMillan as vice-president, H. Kirke White as secretary, and Charles C. Bowen as treasurer. A. E. F. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurney's Seed And Nursery Company
Gurney's Seed and Nursery Co. is a mail-order seed and garden plant company based in Greendale, Indiana. Founded in 1866, Gurney's specializes in vegetable and flower seeds, gardening supplies and nursery stock, including trees, shrubs, perennials, fruit trees and berries, fertilizers and plant foods. History Charles W. Gurney (born May 13, 1840) a Lieutenant Colonel during the American Civil War, opened his first nursery, Hesperian Nurseries, in 1866 in Monticello, Iowa. The business remained in Monticello until 1882, when the business was moved to Dixon County, Nebraska. After realizing the trade potential in towns near rivers, Gurney moved Hesperian Nurseries to Yankton, South Dakota, in 1897. C.W. Gurney's seven sons were very involved in the family seed business, and in 1906, C.W. Gurney and his sons, and one nephew, had the nursery incorporated as Gurney's Seed and Nursery Company. The company started listing products on a generic price list for mailing purposes, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McKenzie Seeds
McKenzie Seeds is a seed packaging company founded in Brandon, Manitoba in 1896. Jiffy has moved production outside of Canada with over 70 people working at their location in Brandon. It was established in 1896 by Dr. Albert Edward McKenzie, and claims to supply 60% of Canada's packet seed market. Its retail division sells seed under the brands McKenzie, Thompson & Morgan, Gusto Italia, and Pike, as well as other gardening products and accessories. Through a direct mail division it operates the brands McFayden and McConnell catalogues. History In 1945, 90% of the company shares passed from its founder to the Manitoba Government to benefit Brandon College, the forerunner to Brandon University. The remaining shares were given to the government in 1975. McKenzie Seeds was run as a Crown Corporation until 1994 at which time it was sold to Regal Greetings and Gifts. In 2002, the management of McKenzie Seeds bought the company. In 2008, Jiffy International AS acquired McKenzie, and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Seed Company
Park Seed Company is an American mail-order and eCommerce seed company based in Greenwood, South Carolina founded in 1868. Park Seed specializes in garden seeds, offering more than 1,100 varieties of flower, vegetable, and herb seeds, plus a large selection of bulbs, live plants, and gardening accessories. Park Seed Company distributes millions of catalogs every year and maintains an online retail presence. Park Seed is a division of Jackson & Perkins Park Acquisitions, which is a subsidiary of publicly traded Western Capital Resources. History Park Seed Company got its start in 1868 when 15-year-old George Watt Park decided to sell seeds he had harvested from his backyard garden in Libonia, Pennsylvania. Park bought a hand press and printed a list of the seeds that he wanted to sell. In addition to circulating this list to friends and neighbors, he also bought an advertisement in ''The Rural American'' for $3.50. The ad resulted in $6.50 in seed orders. With this success, Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seeds Of Change (company)
Seeds of Change is an organic seed and food company owned by Mars, Inc. Until summer 2010, the company was based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and producers of a line of processed organic foods including pasta sauces and salad dressings. Seeds of Change was founded in 1989, as a seed company specializing in organics by Gabriel Howearth and Kenny Ausubel. The company devotes 1% of its net sales toward sustainable organic farming initiatives. Research farm The Seeds of Change Research Farm and Gardens were founded in 1989 in Gila, New Mexico by Gabriel Howearth. By 1996, the Research Farm moved north to a site closer to the company's Santa Fe offices. The farm included over a thousand varieties of plants on six acres of land originally cultivated by the Tewa people on a flood plain along the Rio Grande in El Guique, New Mexico. The farm was certified organic by Oregon Tilth. In August 2010, Mars announced that it would close the farm and move some management to Los Angeles. A final tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange (SESE) is a cooperatively-owned seed company. SESE is a source for heirloom seeds and other open-pollinated (non-hybrid) seeds with an emphasis on vegetables, flowers, and herbs that grow well in the Mid-Atlantic region. SESE also supports seed saving and traditional seed breeding through their product line, through lectures and workshops, and by working with over 50 small seed-growing farmers in the Mid-Atlantic and other parts of the United States. SESE publishes an intermittent email newsletter and blog for gardeners, as well as the Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Catalog and Garden Guide. SESE has introduced family heirloom varieties such as Edmonson cucumber, Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato squash, and White Mountain Cabbage Collards, and reintroduced heirloom varieties long absent from the marketplace, such as the Amish Moon & Stars watermelon. It pledges not to knowingly buy or sell Genetically Modified (GMO) seeds or plants. Jeff McCormack of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True Leaf Market
True Leaf Market is an organic seed and horticultural company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It markets under various brands, the largest of which is Mountain Valley Seed Company. As one of the major seed suppliers in Utah, True Leaf Market specializes in supplying non- GMO seeds, microgreen supplies, and wheatgrass supplies. History True Leaf Market was founded as Mountain Valley Seed Company in Logan, Utah in 1974 by Demetrios Agathangelides, a Greek-American plant geneticist at Utah State University who was doing research on plant varieties adapted to environments with high altitudes and short growing seasons. The company has since grown and merged with other companies, and has been renamed as True Leaf Market. As of 2014, True Leaf Market is owned and managed by Robb Baumann, Lance Heaton, Kaitlin Jones, and Parker Garlitz. Today, True Leaf Market remains as one of the few hundred independently owned seed companies in the United States, due to mass consolid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wildseed Farms
Wildseed Farms is a wildflower farm near Fredericksburg, Texas, United States. It is the largest working wildflower farm in the country. The farm won the ''Garden Center'' 2001 Innovator award. History The farm opened in 1983 in Eagle Lake as a seed producer and initially only allowed the public to visit in April of every year. These visit days proved to be extremely popular, so much so that the owners, John and Marilyn Thomas, decided to relocate to a more accessible location. In 1995, they purchased the plot on Texas State Highway 290. Development for a retail facility and visitor center was completed in 1997. Because the farm is located near Fredericksburg, a town that has a 19th-century feel to it, the main buildings of the farm were also constructed to match the decor of the town. Revenue and operations Wildseed Farms does about $4 million in sales each year, with approximately $1.5 million coming from the retail facility, which can see roughly 100,000 visitors between M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seed Company
Seed companies produce and sell seeds for flowers, fruits and vegetables to commercial growers and amateur gardeners. The production of seed is a multibillion-dollar business, which uses growing facilities and growing locations worldwide. While most of the seed is produced by large specialist growers, large amounts are also produced by small growers that produce only one to a few crop types. The larger companies supply seed both to commercial resellers and wholesalers. The resellers and wholesalers sell to vegetable and fruit growers, and to companies who package seed into packets and sell them on to the amateur gardener. Most seed companies or resellers that sell to retail produce a catalog, for seed to be sown the following spring, that is generally published during early winter. These catalogs are eagerly awaited by the amateur gardener, as during winter months there is little that can be done in the garden so this time can be spent planning the following year’s gardening. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seed Companies
Seed companies produce and sell seeds for flowers, fruits and vegetables to commercial growers and amateur gardeners. The production of seed is a multibillion-dollar business, which uses growing facilities and growing locations worldwide. While most of the seed is produced by large specialist growers, large amounts are also produced by small growers that produce only one to a few crop types. The larger companies supply seed both to commercial resellers and wholesalers. The resellers and wholesalers sell to vegetable and fruit growers, and to companies who package seed into packets and sell them on to the amateur gardener. Most seed companies or resellers that sell to retail produce a catalog, for seed to be sown the following spring, that is generally published during early winter. These catalogs are eagerly awaited by the amateur gardener, as during winter months there is little that can be done in the garden so this time can be spent planning the following year’s gardening. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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