Plant A Row for the Hungry Read about our Plant a Row for the Hungry project, and how to start your own >>

2012 Catalogs Request a free copy of our 2012 Catalog & Garden Guide or download the PDF version.

For fastest service, we recommend ordering online. Browse our store to fill your shopping cart or Quick Order by Catalog Number. If you need to mail in your order instead, you can print this year's mail-in only order form.

Anti-GMO Lawsuit Thanks for supporting us in the oral arguments in the lawsuit OSGATA et al. v Monsanto. This lawsuit tells Monsanto they can't sue us when their GMO frankengenes contaminate our crops!
Read about the lawsuit and Our Anti-GMO Policy >>

New for 2012! We have many newly certified organic popcorn and cucumber varieties. South American Yellow Dynamite popcorn showed impressive resistance to lodging in last summer's hurricane rains. Fast Lady Northern Southern Pea is a new short season quick-cooking lady-type.

We have a good supply of flavorful, productve Schronce’s Deep Black peanut. Think about adding this locally grown high-protein crop to your garden (but those further north should pick shorter season varieties). We've added a new fava bean - Sweet Lorane fava - which can be grown as a fall or spring crop or as an edible winter cover crop in areas with milder winters. Steve Solomon, founder of Territorial Seed Company, bred it for over-wintering in Oregon's Williamette Valley. Read about other changes for 2012 >>

Events We host seed swaps, tastings, and workshops on heirloom gardening, year-round edible gardening, and more! Check out upcoming events >>

New Books Brett Grohsgal’s new cookbook Winter Foods, Harvey Ussery’s Small Scale Poultry Flock, Carol Deppe's The Resilient Gardener, and much more.
Read and learn in the SESE library >>

We donate 30% of sales of Virginia Heritage Seed Collection and Rainbow Starters Mix to the Piedmont Environmental Council and Buy Fresh, Buy Local. 30% of Appalachian Mix sales go to Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center.

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange was named Sustainable Institution of the Year by the CFSA and in the Top 15 Vegetable Seed Companies by Mother Earth News.