A display of bean varieties sorted by color.
A squash cut in half, with its seeds on a plate.
A field of healthy, green squash plants
Thank you, Wren Everett, for the shout-out of our video course and Lofthouse's Landrace Gardening book. Much appreciated!!!
Article: www.motherearthnews.com/.../modern-l...
Adaptation course: goingtoseed.org/products/140...
#motherearthnews
Plant Breeding on Nature's Terms - Dr Walter Goldstein
Webinar on the interaction of the soil microbiome with plants, from roots to leaves.
vimeo.com/1176218246/4...
#soilmicrobiome
Eggplant seeds
White okra flower with dark red center
Okra seed pods and seeds
Collection of ripe peppers
Happy Spring! Time to start your own adapted crop!
US Collection seed in stock: Beans, Celery, Corn, Eggplant, Kale, Leek, Muskmelon, Mustard, Okra, Peppers, Radish, Sesame, Squashes, Tomato, Vigna, and Wheat
goingtoseed.org/collections/...
In Canada, order here:
goingtoseed.org/collections/...
Headshot of Anna
Headshot of Julia
Spencer with a bouquet of vibrantly colored dahlias
Graphic depicting farm and city with tree and handshake in middle. Title is: "Seeds & Culture: Rural and Urban Agriculture United"
The Going to Seed team will be at the 2026 Seeds & Culture conference this weekend, March 6-7, hosted by the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance (UCFA). Drop by our table and say hello!
ujamaafarms.com/conference-o...
Post local seed swaps in the comments!
Our Farmer Support grantee, Clint Freund, will be at the following two events. Drop by and pick up some G2S broccoli seed!
Seed Swap @ Kelly Farm.
www.mnhs.org/events/43322...
Seed Swap at Prairie Farm:
www.hayriverti.org/projects/edu...
A recording of this webinar is available on our Adaptation Gardening channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d49M...
SLCPL Spring Seed Swap, Salt Lake City, UT on Sat, Mar 7th, 10 am - 1 pm services.slcpl.org/event/15594251
Seed Swap Season is Here!
Hand out our Adaptation Gardening brochures at your next seed swap! Order for free here:
goingtoseed.org/products/bro...
A PDF is available if you prefer to print them yourself.
Feel free to post upcoming seed swaps in your area in the comments.
#seedswap
Jennifer Williams holding a large head of dark bronze lettuce.
Mix of fava beans with colors ranging from light green and yellows to pinks and dark reds.
Fava plant with cluster of dark red blooms.
Close-up of fava flowers with dark mauve inner petals and lighter striped outer petals.
Crop Highlight - Fava Bean
goingtoseed.org/products/fav...
Many thanks to Jennifer Williams who grew out our Landrace Discovery Mix, and to the contributors of The People's Mix. Lots of colors and diversity represented here!
Crop Highlight - Sorghum
goingtoseed.org/products/sor...
Thank you, Dominique and our other sorghum donors for this year's mix!
Flowering onions
Flowering broccoli
Mix of lima beans of many colors and patterns
Arugula flowers
The Moment You've Been Waiting For - 2026 Catalog Has Launched!
Get this year's mixes here: goingtoseed.org/.../2026-us-...
#diverseseed #adaptationgardening #landraceseeds
Upcoming Webinars from The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security | Feb 5th and Feb 17th, 2026
Sign up for these 2 free webinars to learn more about the seed industry.
Feb 5th: www.eventbrite.ca/e/beyond-the...
Feb 17th: www.eventbrite.ca/e/northern-l...
Watermelon of different sizes and shades of green, some striped.
Long watermelon cut in half to show the salmon colored flesh.
Large bowl of watermelon seeds. Colors include brown, black, red and white with varying degrees of mottling.
Ziploc bags filled with donated diverse watermelon seeds.
Preview of This Year's Watermelon Mix
Online catalog open for orders on February 1st!
The watermelon seed mix includes red, yellow, salmon and pink fleshed types. Yellow skinned, spotted, striped, solid and several shades of green skinned melons are in this mix. Loads of diversity to watch for.
Thinking of Starting a Seed Library? This is the conference for you!
Virtual conference on Feb 14, 2026
Register: givebutter.com/2026SeedConference
🇲🇦🇲🇩🇪🇬🇲🇱🇨🇿To access the webinar in other languages, closed captions will be activated. 🇪🇸🇲🇽🇫🇷🇨🇦🇯🇵
Free Webinar | Thurs, Jan 29 at 12 pm PT
givebutter.com/USP
Chris Smith of the Utopian Seed Project will be joined by 2 or 3 southeastern farmers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of growing and marketing genetically diverse seed mixes.
A recording will be posted on our YouTube channel.
Colorful mixed dry beans
Colorful dry corn kernels
Colorful dry fava bean mix
Mixed seeds in one of Going to Seed's Fukuoka mix
Sneak Peek at 2026 Catalog Offerings
Which crop will you landrace this year?
Bowl of dry beans exhibiting a variety of colors and patterns.
Seed packer's hands scooping corn seeds from a bowl into seed packet envelope.
Seed packers working at table by sunny window.
Bowl of okra seeds next to a pile of finished okra seed packets.
Seed Packing Is Done!
Many thanks to all who packaged this year's seed donations. We received more seed than ever, resulting in 10,000 seed packets. We are grateful to our supporters who've made our 2026 catalog the best ever! Ordering will open to the public early February, so stay tuned!
Background is a close up of colorful fava beans, with Joseph and Lowell in foreground. Party date and location also indicated.
Join GTS For A Seed Packing Party!
Thanks to our generous community, we have seeds galore for our 2026 catalog. Join our seed packing party on Sun, Dec 28, at 1 pm, at 887 Etheldore Street, Moss Beach, CA.
If you love handling seeds, this is the party for you! Please RSVP in the comments. Thanks!
Hey! 🌱 #gardensky nerds!
Did you know you can sign up to be part of collaborative plant variety trials, including trials of seeds from the USDA-ARS germplasm repositories (beans and such) through SeedLinked? I just learned this and WANT
Thank you to Anna Marie for the handwritten letter, and to Landon for sharing the seed-saving photos!
Handwritten letter from seed donor
Cardboard box filled with plastic bags of saved seed.
Multicolored beans being shelled into a striped woven basket.
Woven basket filled with very colorful corn cobs
Seed Donors! Thank You for Sending in Your Seeds!!
Our Seed Share team is currently cataloguing and preparing diverse mixes from YOUR seeds for the 2026 season. Thank you for helping us put seeds in every hand!
#seedsaving #seedsharing #communityseedselection
In case you missed the live interview, the recording can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BLv...
Stories from the Snake River Seed Co-op
Join us for a conversation with Casey O'Leary, Kelly Kingsland, and James Loomis on cooperative models, and how one group of farmers built a seed system grounded in relationship, resilience, and community.
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Seed Library Network logo above photo of cobs of multicolored corn
Brochures that describe the principles of adaptation gardening (aka landrace gardening) published by the organization Going to Seed
Mixture of seeds of all shapes and sizes held in the palm of a hand
Screenshot of Going to Seed's online community website hosted on Discourse
Share Your Love of Seed Saving
Find and support your local seed library
Deliver educational materials
Share Going to Seed’s locally adapted seeds
Submit your photos
Share Going to Seed social posts
Be part of the online conversation
Find out more at:
goingtoseed.org/pages/volunt...
The German kindle edition is free to download until September 29th at midnight pacific time.
Germany: www.amazon.de/gp/product/B...
usa: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Yellow and green cushaw squash
Moschata squash of verying sizes and shapes on shelf.
Cover of Summer Squash Growing Guide showing a variety of summer squashes
Outdoor display (4 tiers) of maxima squashes of various colors, shapes and sizes.
Going to Seed Community Squash Grow-Outs
For more, search "2025 Grow Reports":
goingtoseed.org/pages/commun...
For seed saving tips, see our Summer Squash Crop Guide (tips also apply to other squash):
heyzine.com/flip-book/58...
#seedsaving #squashharvest #adaptationgardening
Cover of book is a red pea pod on vine against a blue sky background
Joseph Lofthouse standing in a field of young sunflowers - no blooms yet.
Dry beans of many colors and patterns in a checkerboard arrangement
Landrace Gardening in 5 languages!
Joseph Lofthouse's inspiring book, "Landrace Gardening: Food Security Through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination" is available in Chinese, English, French, German, and Hindi.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPKRYJX....
#landracegardening #seedsaving #resilientplants
