Uprising Seeds

Uprising Seeds We are passionate about the stewardship of open-pollinated seeds & keeping seed in the public commons. Adamantly opposed to GMO's. Grow a garden! Share!

SEED RACK LOCATIONS:
Crossroads Grocery~ Maple Falls, WA
Bellingham Food Coop Downtown~ Bellingham, WA
Bellingham Food Coop Cordata~ Bellingham, WA
Skagit Food Coop~ Mt Vernon, WA
Christiansons Nursery~ Mt Vernon, WA
Sno Isle Food Coop~ Everett, WA
Walts Organics~ Seattle, WA
Central Coop~ Seattle, WA
Mountain Community Coop~ Eatonville, WA
Olympia Food Coops East and West~ Olympia, WA
Main

Market Coop~ Spokane, WA
Food Front PDX and Hillsdale~ Portland, OR
Peoples Food Coop~ Portland, OR
Astoria Food Coop~ Astoria, OR
Sundance Natural Foods~ Eugene, OR
All PCC's in Seattle
Mountain Community Coop, Eatonville, WA
Alberta Coop, Portland, OR
San Juan Island Food Coop
Port Townsend Food Coop
Tacoma Food Co-op
Orcas Island Coop *NEW* (new store!)
Blossom Foods, Lopez Island

With the Radiant onset of Spring, it’s time to join in an ancient tradition known as BEANS! A 9000+ yr old journey begin...
04/28/2026

With the Radiant onset of Spring, it’s time to join in an ancient tradition known as BEANS!
A 9000+ yr old journey beginning in Mexico and Peru to Turtle Island, and into Asia, Africa, and Europe, beans have been continually moving into our stories and becoming intricate parts of our celebrations.
With over 40,000 varieties (of which we offer 44!), you have lots to choose from!

While often, and mistakingly, called “poor man’s meat,”beans are an amazing food providing protein, fiber, folate, iron, potassium, magnesium, manganese, copper, zinc, thiamine, B6, folic acid, flavonoids and rich in lignans.
They improve soil fertility and require significantly less fertilizer, water, and land than other types of protein.
They revel in their relationship with Rhizobia bacteria, that converts nitrogen from the air into usable fuel, and benefit plants around them.
Plus, they are gorgeous, loved especially by Bumblebees, and happily visited by Hummingbirds and Butterflies!

And while there are many ways to prepare them, including eating them fresh, you will find that we most often include only 3 ingredients: beans, good olive oil, and salt. Their unique flavors and textures stand on their own.
We eat a lot of beans.
Eat Your Beans!!

Grow it forward!10 years ago, we were moved to create “GROW IT FORWARD!” options on our website to address the very real...
04/17/2026

Grow it forward!

10 years ago, we were moved to create “GROW IT FORWARD!” options on our website to address the very real uncertainty faced by many, and the equal outpouring of generosity.

It seems to us, swimming in seeds as we are, that sharing and spreading hope and nourishment in the form of wondrous seeds, is rooted in remembering abundance.
Remembering that individual and collective power grow when we offer what we have, when we extend generosity, when the “enough” in our lives becomes the beginning of a softer landing in another’s.

All this is to say that scarcity is real, often manufactured by those who seek to elevate personal and extinguish and divide collective power, dignity, and justice.

All this is to say that abundance and infinite potential are also real, rooted in possibility and connection.

All this is to remember that you belong here.

All this is to delight in that there is so much to say, and that seeds too can open those dialogues, extending from hands to earth to kitchens and bellies, into the hearts of all we touch and connect to.
Which is, of course, absolutely everything.

So, while growing a garden seems a small act, it is connection, entangling, dreaming, conspiring, creating with, and immersion into the everything that we are, even when we forget.
Grow!
Share!
Celebrate!
Rise Up!
Seed Sovereignty! (Did you know that 4 major corporations control and “own” the rights to over 60% of the world seed supply AND sales of agri-chemicals?!)

And please, visit our “Donations” page to be inspired, and join in!

“The luminous, mycelial, tethers between us, our fundamental connection to one another, the raft through the sorrow, the holding through the grief joy is, reminds us, again and again, that we belong not to an institution or a party or a state or a market, but to each other. Needfully so. Which we must practice, and study, and sing, and story, and dream, and celebrate. Belonging to each other as though our lives depended on it.” Ross Gay



There are people and places that will carry on in our hearts long after wonderful visits. A warm thank you and group hug...
04/15/2026

There are people and places that will carry on in our hearts long after wonderful visits.
A warm thank you and group hug to:
The folks for showering us with inspiration, seeds, and a cookie and tea filled welcome. They have been doing community minded seed work and spreading their passion since 1986!
for their warm friendship, meandering conversations, and a heart filled vegan Palestinian meal. for extending love and care in their wake, and taking us to magical avocado and citrus filled greenhouses.
for said greenhouses and sharing of incredible knowledge, love, enthusiasm, and dedication to healthy systems and regenerative agriculture.
The entire family for sharing their land and dreams.

All our love and thanks.
We can’t wait to return❤️

I love Marigolds. Love them. Harvesting Marigold seed requires patience and a sort of timelessness. At least the way I d...
03/26/2026

I love Marigolds. Love them.
Harvesting Marigold seed requires patience and a sort of timelessness.
At least the way I do it, and at least this far north, where the rains fall at undetermined moments, moistening (and likely molding) the dusty dry, seed filled pouches.
Unhurried, scent-filled, crackling under my fingertips, listening to the thrumming and buzzing and birdsong of it all.
Up here, I choose to sit alongside everyone who comes to visit.
Lacewings and Butterflies. Hoverflies and Ladybugs. Bees, so many Bees.
And Birds, although they tend to throw their parties more in the vicinity of the sunflowers, lettuce, and chicory.
I’ve never gotten an invite, likely because I’m the host.
And Frogs. I know, I know, Frogs are supposed to dislike the smell. A reminder of everything we think we know, and all the learning to be had.
It feels good and right and worthy, this gathering of seed and small friends.
Not for a second am I unaware that I’m doing their bidding equally, if not more, than they do mine.
A stumbling kind of dance.
So often a simple friendly, “I see you” nod, until we full on commit.
These are some of my favorite relationships.
Listening to each other as we hum.
Going about our days honoring beauty. And life.
Giving thanks as we sow, and tend, and harvest.
And party.
Maybe you’ve never tried it, this particular sitting among friends.
Amazing how abundant we are❤️

I used to talk onions a lot with my old teacher John Navazio and I remember him telling me once “you won’t find a better...
03/16/2026

I used to talk onions a lot with my old teacher John Navazio and I remember him telling me once “you won’t find a better storing onion than Stuttgarter”. Those little passing comments were always mentally filed away and led us on countless hunts over the years to track down old varieties. We’ve been growing this one for almost 15 years now and we still haven’t found one to surpass it for storing.
Just a bit fatter than a cippolini, Stuttgarter is small to medium in size, super uniform, firm, and absolutely the last to sprout in the spring. If you’re looking for an onion that’ll store until your markets start up again in April, it’ll do that and then some.
Just another one of those utilitarian, not-so-sexy varieties that deserves more attention and love. John was a specialist in those.

We’re going to lose some people here, but in the interest of honesty and transparency, we buy tomatoes from the supermar...
03/05/2026

We’re going to lose some people here, but in the interest of honesty and transparency, we buy tomatoes from the supermarket in winter. Feel free to hit the unfollow button right now. The reason in our house is pretty singular: pico di gallo. We just can’t get behind cooked salsa and tacos are enough a part of our diet that a simple fresh pico is critical cuisine year round. Our expectations are low. You’d be pushing it to plan a winter meal with tomatoes as the centerpiece, save that for September when main season slicers are prime time. Winter tomatoes, for us, are a supporting and structural element as much as anything, all about acic pop, firm toothsome flesh with a juicy gel cavity, and the flavor to pull the structural elements together. No version of preserving main season tomatoes really satisfies that same role.
Enter longkeepers: If youre not yet faimilar with longkeeping tomatoes, they are tomatoes bred for their storage qualities, grown during the main season, picked mostly barely the near-side of ripe, and either hung in something comparable to a pepper ristra, or stored in shallow boxes/crates with good airflow. If picked and stored in proper conditions, they go into something of a vegetable stasis and store for months. The two centers of biodiversity for the type seem to be southern Italy and eastern Spain, where they have been used to extend fresh tomato season into the winter months for generations. While many of the old varieties have fallen out of favor in this era of modern preserving and and export based food distribution, they have found a welcome home on our farm for their ability to extend fresh tomato season without requiring the fossil fuel miles (and with honestly a way better end product than what’s available from the market).
Now, IG loves it some beautiful hanging fruits (remember when hoshigaki had a hot IG moment?), but longkeeper tomatoes can also hang with real life. We had a couple totes, with tomatoes picked in late September, rattling around the back of my covered farm truck bed for months, through lots of varying temps and commuting miles, and we were eating fresh tomatoes till the new year. (Continued in comments)

I hear, for what it’s worth, that Vogue has declared 2026 “The Year of the Cabbage”. A bit random, as I’ve never thought...
02/04/2026

I hear, for what it’s worth, that Vogue has declared 2026 “The Year of the Cabbage”. A bit random, as I’ve never thought of them as vegetable influencers exactly, but sure, why not? We’re happy to give cabbage the love it deserves. It’s one of the crops we have spent an outsized amount of time on over the years and its not the easiest one to produce high quality seed for. As the industry has almost entirely switched to hybrid breeding for the crop, we think our collection of really well-selected, market-worthy OP varieties is both rare and something to be proud of. I walked through the winter field yesterday flagging the very best of the January King patch and it looks to be a fantastic crop. Known for its cold hardiness It can be harvested most years well into february. This years mild temps have yielded some of the biggest we’ve ever grown, some 12-14” across. It is absent from our catalog this year while we refresh and reselect our stock but looks to be set up for a great 2026 seed harvest. In the meantime we really want to encourage everyone to try Dowinda as we can’t praise this variety enough as a storage variety. Bred by Biodynamic grower Dieter Bauer in Germany, it yields some of the densest, best storing heads you’ll ever see. The last pic is how we store cabbages through the winter (for varieties that won’t survive in the field). I’d say 90% of this Dowinda crop were still market quality in March at passive barn temps, in open air, after 4+ months in storage. We have an excellent supply of fresh, recently reselected seed.

Thanks to those of you joining us in the General Strike against the campaign of fear mongering and terrorism being perpe...
01/30/2026

Thanks to those of you joining us in the General Strike against the campaign of fear mongering and terrorism being perpetrated in our communities by the federal government through ICE.
It’s not always easy to know the best way to forge a path toward the future based in equity, collaboration, and relationship that we envision, but it is important at this moment to stand with communities facing the brunt of these divisive and dangerous forces in power and disrupt business as usual. There are so many ways to do this. Pick one!

This has always been the heart of our work: to be a conduit of connectivity and relationship through the common wealth of seeds. To learn from their generosity and the stories of place, migration, change, and resilience that they carry in them.

This moment in time may feel extreme to some, but it is certainly nothing new and has been the lived experience of communities marginalized by targeted oppression forever. Speaking this truth is essential for radical change.
We’re confident that the vast majority of us have more in common that we value than those in power who divide and exploit for personal gain. We hold more power than their house of cards ever will. Let’s use it to uplift and care for one another.
Every day.

Just in case you don’t visit our stories. There is so much you can choose to support located here. Give what you can, an...
01/26/2026

Just in case you don’t visit our stories.
There is so much you can choose to support located here.
Give what you can, and remember that whatever you have, multiplied by millions, is huge. We ❤️ You.

Welcome!We are so glad you’re here.Only a short while ago, we realized that 2026 marks the entry into our 20th year as U...
01/09/2026

Welcome!
We are so glad you’re here.
Only a short while ago, we realized that 2026 marks the entry into our 20th year as Uprising Seeds, and the shift from our original fresh market produce farm and CSA to an intentional focus on seed stewardship and sharing. (Above are some pictures from our print catalogs through the years.)
What started as a small two-page, three-fold brochure of about 50 varieties (that we pinned up on bulletin boards and strategically left on side tables at conferences) has grown into the current catalog you find here of about 450 varieties. It’s very personal work for us and is the manifestation of our love for our extended community, and our belief that we each have an intrinsic place at this ever-expanding and changing table. 
Each year we write a blog post on our site, trying to condense a years worth of growing seeds, ourselves, and speaking to the events that require presence, listening, and action. We hope you’ll go read it (on our website landing page under “Latest Updates.”)
Ultimately, our motivation to engage in this work has remained consistent over the years. Connectivity, collaboration, sharing, listening, speaking up, justice, and living in relationship.
We recognize that this felt sense of living in community does not mean that it’s easy.
Or that we will all agree.
What it does mean is a commitment to radical honesty, and to us this means doing it even if we’re scared, and not betraying ourselves in the process.
So speak up, will ya?!
Do it in your own ways, and don’t believe anyone who tells you there is one way.
The world doesn’t need or benefit from your shame.
Think about though, who might…
Now, head to the streets, put pen to paper, music to airwaves, get food and care to the people, kindness and compassion to all who we share this life with (and that’s everything so act accordingly). Do it your way, and know you make a difference.
We’ll join you there.

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