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Do you want more varieties than we offer in this catalog?
Then become a member!
Seed Savers Exchange Membership
Seed Savers Exchange (is a membership organization with an annual
membership fee and three annual membership publications. One of those
annual publications, Seed Savers Yearbook (mailed each February),
makes available (only to SSE’s members) the seeds of more than
11,000 rare varieties of vegetables, fruits and grains. In other words,
each year SSE’s members offer nearly twice as many vegetable varieties
as are available from all of the mail-order seed catalogs in both the
U.S. and Canada.
Become a SSE Member Now »
Flower and Herb Exchange Membership
The Flower and Herb Exchange – the Flower and Herb Exchange (FHE),
founded in 1989, is patterned after SSE but is a separate organization.
FHE issues one publication each year mailed in March to more than 1,700
members. The 88-page 2004 Flower and Herb Exchange Yearbook
contained the addresses of 200 members who were offering nearly 2,000
of old-time flowers and herbs. FHE is re-creating the garden landscapes
of the past by reintroducing plants that once bloomed in our grandparents’
gardens and yards. Thanks to FHE’s members, flowers and herbs
that were rare are becoming abundant once again.
Become a FHE Member Now »
Specific benefits of membership include:
SSE Membership Publications
Our 8,000 members receive three publications each year:
Seed Savers Yearbook (450 pages, mailed in February)
Summer Edition (80-100 pages, August), and
Harvest Edition (80-100 pages, November).
Seed Savers Yearbook, the greatest source of heirloom
varieties in the world, contains the addresses of more than 800 of our
members and listings for more than 11,000 rare varieties of vegetables
and fruits that they are making available to other SSE members. SSE’s
publications have created a national awareness of heirloom varieties
and the efforts to conserve them. Seed Savers Yearbook and Heritage
Farm’s seed collections have provided the foundations for alternative
seed companies throughout the U.S. Seed Savers Exchange and Heritage
Farm have provided the models for genetic preservation projects and
organizations in more than 30 countries.
Plus - Members are invited to our Annual Convention
Each summer since 1981, SSE has held its Annual Convention at Heritage
Farm on the next-to-last full weekend in July when the Preservation
Gardens are most beautiful. Keynote speakers have included Wendell Berry,
Wes Jackson, Gary Nabhan, Pat Mooney, Roger Swain, Eliot Coleman, John
Jeavons and Peter Hatch. About 250 of SSE’s members enjoy speeches,
slide shows, garden and orchard tours and workshops, delicious local
food and a barn dance. Attendence is limited to SSE’s members.
Write to have your name placed on the “Mailing List for the Annual
Convention.” Final details will be sent a month in advance.
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