Indigenous Owned Seed & Plant Companies
Indigenous Owned and Led Seed Companies
Alliance of Native Seedkeepers
Based in Windsor, North Carolina, their vision seeks out a future where indigenous peoples may live with the security of food, health, culture, environment, unity, and justice. Their mission is to redevelop the spiritual bonds our people have with the seeds which in return teaches us how to become more environmentally, culturally, economically, and health conscious.
Eloheh Farm and Seeds - Indigenous Center for Earth Justice
Based in Yamhill, Oregon, they seek to be a model of regenerative agricultural and animal husbandry systems that support human needs while improving the earth and all creation inhabiting the web of life. We desire to live in harmony with the land. " Eloheh" is a Cherokee Indian word representing "harmony, balance, peace, abundance and the common good.
Based in Tucson, Arizona, their mission is to conserve and promote the arid-adapted crop diversity of the Southwest in support of sustainable farming and food security. Native Seeds/SEARCH seeks to find, protect and preserve the seeds of the people of the Greater Southwest so that these arid adapted crops may benefit all peoples and nourish a changing world.
Based in Nevada City, California, they seek to reseed imaginations of a more beautiful and nourishing world through uplifting and mentoring emerging mentors, changemakers, visionaries, creative humans who are making nourishing contributions at the intersections of the landscape of food and seed sovereignty and cultural revitalization, who are cultivating foodways that grow from a foundation of belonging, connection, and culture.
Based in Murphy, North Carolina, the Long family says, “Farming is important because for us, it’s a way of life. The Long Family Farm was once a Cherokee Farm but sadly, it was taken away from the Cherokee people when they were forced to leave the land during the Trail of Tears in the 1830’s. After this, the land was sold to white settlers. It was then sold to a family who held the farm for over 100 years! The farm was purchased by Harold and Nancy Long in 2015. Harold, his son Travis, and his grandchildren are all enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The farm has gone full circle and is now rightfully back in Cherokee hands! There are 2,200 acres of tribal land the Cherokee won back in court that border our 40 acre farm -- 32 deeded acres and 8 tribal acres.”
Based in Decorah, Iowa, Seed Savers Exchange is a business and an exchange company. The organization started with the sharing of seeds within a small group of people in 1975 and has continued to expand over the last 40+ years. The organization maintains a Seed Bank containing over 25,000 varieties at their headquarters. Some of the varieties from the Bank are distributed in the Exchange and 600+ varieties are made commercially available to the public in the organization's seed catalog. The revenue from the seed sales, aswell as donations and memberships, serve to maintain the organization''s collection and promote and encourage the tradition of saving and sharing seeds.
Indigenous Owned and Run Greenhouses/Plant Companies
Kayanase - Restoring Mother Earth
Based in Ohsweken, Ontario, their mission is to restore the health and beauty of Mother Earth, using science- based approaches and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).
“Earth Haven Farm is a 200 acre family-owned and operated subsistence farm dedicated to a sustainable lifestyle. We are located in the hamlet of Thomasburg, just north of Belleville in the Municipality of Tweed in Ontario. We have 3,000 acres of conservation land to the east of us, 800 acres of woodlot to the north and 800 acres of woodlot to the south. We are in an ideal location for growing healthy, nutritional food, free of chemicals, pesticides and other toxins.”