I ordered their collection of heritage seeds a few months ago, which arrived promptly in a very nice storage container - and it's one heckuva well-considered selection of easy-to-grow (more or less, some experience required...
) and nutritious veggies. It's a good-sized dose of each kind - enough to plant some out and save some in case the first crop or so fails... Good advice. I've put the (sealed with tape, now) container in my fridge for optimum long-term (ten years?) storage, although, of course, the sane method would be to plant these seeds out next spring and hereafter harvest fresh seeds for storage from each succeeding year's crop. (But who says I'm that sane, anyway...?
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In my view, a stash of heritage seeds is exceedingly cheap insurance. Ask yourself: How much would you be willing to pay for 'X' if there wasn't any available.....?
A stash of heritage (pre-genetically-modified) seeds is truly life support - not just for you but for all who will come after you. Too few people recognize the hazards of trying to grow even F1 Hybrid varieties - most of what is sold these days and which have been around for decades and supplies most of what we consider to be food or flowers. But these will not come "true" from their seeds - you can get all kinds of 'whatever' instead and end up without a viable seed lineage in further years. And if you are in a situation where your survival may depend on growing your own food - man, you are in trouble.
I've also taken the precaution of
printing out Big John Lipscomb"s extensive notes (on website above) about growing and harvesting these various seeds. I've added it to my growing binder of life-support information. That is, I'm not assuming that all the fabulous information that's now available on the web will be accessible when we need it - and the power is out and the 'net is down and, well, you know....
In my view, a carefully stored (frozen, if you can!) collection of heritage seeds is right up there with 1) water 2) shelter 3) heat and 4) food as a critical life support stash against an ugly situation. Which, history tells us, does happen.
But that's why we're here, right?
Cheers,
Selene