Truelove Seeds
Philadelphia based company started in 2017 by Owen Taylor, built around culturally important varieties kept by immigrant, Black, Indigenous and diaspora communities. Seed is grown by dozens of small farmers rather than one farm, and those growers receive half of every sale, which is stated openly on the site. The catalog reads differently from the rest of the trade: each variety comes with the family or community that carried it, often with recipes and video interviews attached.
Right choice for a gardener looking for a specific ancestral vegetable, an okra, a bitter green or a bean from a particular region, and for anyone who wants the money to reach the person who grew the seed. Packets cost more than mainstream catalogs and quantities are small because harvests are small. Popular varieties disappear quickly, and restocking waits on the next season.
Pros
- Culturally documented ancestral varieties
- Growers receive half of each sale
- Seed from dozens of small farms
- Stories, recipes and interviews included
- Varieties not sold anywhere else
Cons
- Packet prices above mainstream catalogs
- Small quantities, frequent sell-outs
- Restocks depend on one harvest a year
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