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First, the Long Island Seed Project is not a
seed company but a service for plant breeders: You can use the PayPal buttons above which
allows you to use your credit card or PayPal account to pay for Seed Shares. After you
press the Paypal button, you will be transferred to the secure PayPal site to fill out the required information and once
your payment has been accepted by PayPal you will usually be relayed to our
ordering page so that you can e-mail us your request for seed
immediately. In some cases, you will not be redirected back to our site- so you will have to e-mail your seed request to us (admin@liseed.org). We are always notified by paypal immediately whenever they have processed funds so we will have your name, address and e-mail as well as how many shares you have purchased before we get your request for seed.
When you order your seed shares, please request the seeds that you
would like us to send at the same time or shortly (within 24 hrs) after you purchase Seed Shares.
Our seeds are produced in very small quantities. We do not
have the ability to provide large quantities of any of the many seed
lots that we produce since we don't have the ability to grow, harvest
and clean large amounts of seeds except by very low tech and usually
time consuming processes involving hand labor. Most of the
varieties and breeding lines we maintain or provide from other sources consist of a few ounces of
seed or less. In most cases, we can send out only one
packet of a particular variety per requester. Essentially,
our seed is handcrafted.
Second, we are not in the business of selling garden seed:
We allow members who purchase seed shares access to a specialized kind of seed bank as a service for plant breeders and experimenters. In fact, most of our seed is not permitted to be sold by the USDA Seed
Laws because of the genetic diversity and instability of some of our
breeding lines. We do not always work to maintain variety purity
and instead, often create purposeful genetic diversity (along
with the bees) which is still considered a heresy in the commercial seed
trade. When you obtain our seed, you agree to the potential variability
of the seed contained in the packet. Always read our seed
descriptions carefully before requesting seed.
How Home Gardeners Can Obtain Seed:
You can obtain seed of our unique and useful varieties and blends from
us by becoming a member of the Long Island Seed Project (you become a
member when you purchase Seed Shares). "Seed Shares"
can be exchanged for seeds. Each seed share can be exchanged for
one packet of seed from our seed list. For the 2010 season, the
following "seed shares" are available :
Two (2) Seed Shares- $5 (shares can be traded for up to 2 packets of seed from our 2010 seed list)
Seven (7) Seed Shares- $15 (shares can be traded for up to 7 packets of seed from our 2010 seed list)
Twelve (12) seed shares - $25 (shares can be traded for up to 12 packets from our 2010 seed list)
Twenty (20) Seed Shares- $40 (shares can be traded for up to 20 packets of seed from our 2010 seed list)
You can also send cash, money order or check made out to Ken Ettlinger with
your list of seeds to Long Island Seed Project, 1372 Flanders Road,
Flanders, NY 11901.
Cost of Seed Shares includes postage and
packing. Your donations help us do what we do. For our
friends overseas, please be advised that our seed may be blocked by
certain import and export laws and other kinds of "red tape" beyond our
control.
Seed Growers:
We are beginning to work with other farmers to produce unique varieties
of special merit in quantities that can be made available to
retail seed companies or to make available in commercial quantities to
the larger farming community. If you are a farmer with an
interest in seed production, we look forward to collaborating with you
since our goal is to ultimately develop sufficient quantities of seed
so that small farmers can benefit by growing and marketing
varieties that come out of the Long Island Seed Project (or other smaller scale breeding programs) to their customers.
Plant Breeders...We Enjoy hearing about your work:
If you have seed of varieties that you have developed through
conventional breeding and selection or hand crafting and that you would like to share, we would be
pleased to list those on our website seed list and can even work out a
seed shares barter or a purchase agreement if you would like. We know there are many
farmers and backyard breeders doing what we do and would be pleased to
showcase your work and get your developments out to others. Send us your images of your developments to share. It
doesn't require very much seed to participate. Contact us.
Members of Our Seed Project...please consider sending us an e-mail after the growing season with your comments about how our seed performed for you. Your comments are helpful to our work and the work of our cooperating seed breeders and help to develop future goals.
We Are Slow Most of the Time:
The Long Island Seed Project staff are friends and volunteers.
There aren't any paid salaries. That means we all have other
jobs. As a result, don't expect the efficiency of a big seed
company. We're not.
Thank You:
We appreciate your contributions to the Long Island Seed Project and
the purchase of seedshares which allows us to continue to maintain our
breeding and seed gardens and conduct research in developing new
varieties for the organic farming community as well as help other breeders introduce their developments.
Last Modified: Jan., 2010
