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Local Garden Centers and Plant Nurseries – updated for spring 2024

🤩C.N.Smith Farm & Garden Center, E Bridgewater. Seeds and seedlings. Produce and eggs. Fun seasonal events! PYO!

🤩Crystal Lake Greenhouse, 2 locations: Plymouth and Carver. Better blooms for your bucks. 

🤩Holly Hill Farm, Cohasset. Watch for their beloved plant sales offering organic seedlings. 

🤩G. Norwood Farm, Brockton. Over 100 years of experience. 

🤩Williams Trading Post, Middleboro Huge selection of beautiful seasonal plants, antiques too, to add a touch of uniqueness to your home and garden. Open Spring and Fall. 

🤩 Nessralla Farm, Halifax, Store is open year-round offering produce, meat, honey, maple syrup, etc. They also offer hardy seedlings, beautiful hanging baskets, and seasoned firewood.

🤩 Bridgewater Farm Supply, Bridgewater. Mulch, loam, compost, soil, woodchips, hay, and straw. 

🤩  Gardeners Choice, Pembroke. Seeds, soil, compost, plants, seedlings, landscape bushes, and trees. 

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More to Explore:

Blue Stem Natives, Norwell
Kennedys Country Gardens.com, Scituate
Devine Feed and Pet, Norwell

www.pcsdma.org Sheriff’s Dept. Horticulture program
www.capecodextension.org Fact sheets, community gardens, and more.

www.masshort.org  Mass. Horticultural Society.
www.fourseasonfarm.com Experimental market garden operated by Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch in Maine.
www.rareseeds.com Baker Creek heirloom seeds.
www.gardeningchannel.com
www.garden.org/zipzone  Find your hardiness zone

Seed Resources
Seed Libraries in Southeastern Massachusetts Libraries

Edible Tip: Check your local library for seeds. Yes, your library! Many have a Seed Library where you can ‘borrow’ seeds for no charge, grow the plant, and then harvest extra seeds to contribute back to the library. How awesome is that? Find your local free seed library here.

Interested in starting your own Seed Library? Hear the inspiring story about this 13-year-old who is offering free starter kits.

Seed Catalogs

Fedco Seed Compan

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is located in Maine and is known for sourcing cold-hardy selections for the demanding northeast climate. They offer organic and heirloom varieties and buy products from all over the world. Each year they observe hundreds of varieties and choose the best to offer in their catalog. Fedco is a cooperative; consumers own 60% of the company and 40% is owned by workers/members.

High Mowing Organic Seeds

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High Mowing Seeds began in Vermont in 1996 with just 28 varieties. By 2001 they began contracting for other local farms to grow seed in addition to their 5 acres. They now have over 600 varieties of heirloom, open-pollinated, and hybrid varieties of vegetable, fruit, herb, and flower seeds. Many of the seeds they sell are still grown on their forty-acre farm. 

Johnny’s Seed Company

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is located in Maine. 100% employee own. They breed and sell organic, and non-organic seeds, Johnny’s exclusives, and plants such as asparagus starts. They have a great selection of tools for home and market gardeners and their website has many great interactive tools, such as a seed calculator, grower’s library, hardiness zone maps, and more. They do not carry any GMO seeds and have taken the safe seed pledge. 

Seed Savers Exchange Heritage Farm

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is located 6 miles north of Decorah, Iowa. The farm has preservation gardens, a historic orchard, and an ancient white cattle park. This is a non-profit seed catalog that is member-supported and saves and shares heirloom seeds from their heritage garden. The heritage farm is 890 acres and maintains many thousands of heirloom varieties, most brought to America by members’ ancestors who emigrated from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and other parts of the world. Visitors usually are welcome at the farm from March through December. 

West Coast Seeds

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was founded in 1983 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Their purpose is to source and supply seeds of a higher quality than have been available to home gardeners. Following organic farming and gardening traditions, untreated and certified organic seeds are their focus. They offer over 1,000 varieties of untreated, non-GMO, non-GEO, open-pollinated, and hybrid seeds and a wide range of quality gardening supplies. West Coast Seeds is certified by the Pacific Agriculture Certification Society (Certification number 16-205). In addition to purchasing seeds, West Coast Seeds’ website offers visitors a large database of resources on growing and seed saving.

Popular Books for Kids

From Seed to Plant by Gail Biggons, 1993

How a Seed Grows by Helene Jamieson, 2015

Oh Say Can You Seed? All About Flowering Plants, by Bonnie Worth, 2001

A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Aston, 2007

If You Hold a Seed by Elly MacKay, 2018

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner, 2015

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