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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

It was not on my bingo card 20 years ago when we started Uprising Seeds, that such a big source of friendship and commun...
09/30/2026

It was not on my bingo card 20 years ago when we started Uprising Seeds, that such a big source of friendship and community as an adult would come by way of an obscure, regional, vegetable family from Northern Italy, but here we are cruising into radicchio season and I am so excited to reconnect with this hilarious and wonderful family of farmers and passionate cooks and enthusiasts at events and over meals over the next several months. Congrats to Lane, Margaret, and Shawn on the much anticipated release of “Radicchio: A Celebration of the Beloved Italian Vegetable”. It is a beautiful book, both an obsessive documentation of the history, culture, and cuisine in its homeland of the Veneto, and a celebration of how is has been a conduit for both local and international community building as it has traveled. This is agriCULTURE.
We had the honor and great joy to bring some advance copies of the book while traveling to Italy to visit some of the people who have been central to the story for us in the PNW and who were essential collaborators in the book coming together, Andrea, Luca, and the team at Smarties.Bio, Silvano, founder of T&T seeds, and soon, Veneto farmer and mentor Andrea Giubilato. Team Italia seems simultaneously honored and slightly amused by it all. Over lunch, Silvano’s son commented “it’s crazy, most Italians would think ‘why on earth would you want a whole book just about radicchio?!’” Here’s to our weird and wonderful and growing community! Culinary Breeding Network 💗 by Lane Selman Shawn Linehan Margarett Waterbury

Isn’t it amazing how beauty can be found everywhere? How it Is everywhere? How it is the Wholeness of a “thing” that con...
09/03/2026

Isn’t it amazing how beauty can be found everywhere? How it Is everywhere? How it is the Wholeness of a “thing” that contains, well, everything. And how recognizing this Wholeness in Everything can also feel, in an embodied way, like that part while breathing, at the very top, that tips over into a feeling like rolling down a hill, filled with joy, satisfaction, completion…until next time.
Here is a part. And within these parts, circled and swirling, the Whole remains. Different shapes and textures, but whole. Knowing this wholeness, feeling it in our bones and blood, becomes a thread then towards inevitable connection.
Cycles upon cycles upon cycles.
Waves of change that continuously contain everything.
What a relief! Until next time, this is what remains.
All this is to say, clearly and concisely now, (because I’d like you to feel some clarity here, in my meanderings!) these Gorgeous piles are what is left at the end of This season.
After the sowing, the tending, the waiting, the marveling, the birds and insects, the tired hands and every muscle, the winnowing, dust, mold, the bone tired, Earth-caked everywhere days….Chaff, beautiful chaff.

We do not need this much Amaranth. I was remembering today how one of the first years we decided to only grow seed, endi...
08/21/2026

We do not need this much Amaranth.
I was remembering today how one of the first years we decided to only grow seed, ending many wonderful years at the Anacortes Farmer Market, our EBT CSA, and wholesale, the Birds came in droves to eat lettuce seed. I remember falling to my knees and weeping. So dramatic! But now, now and for years, I have almost anxiously Awaited the Birds… worrying if they did not arrive and worrying if their numbers were fewer. And they are fewer. And so, this is too much Amaranth for us. It is too many Sunflower, Cabbage, Lettuce, Cosmos, Rudbeckia, Poppies, Radicchio….seeds for us. Because, after all, we are really a small business here. And after all, if we are not sharing, what exactly are we doing? If we do not see and feel and celebrate our Connections, are we whole? In all of this we have strived to remember connection, care, and community. We have often fallen short. We have often thought too we could do more. And in-between falling short and could’ve’s and should’ve’s, we have arrived, for the time being, in this sweet spot of having so much, recognizing it with grateful hearts and dirty hands, and spreading it all around. Whether it is seeds for the birds or humans, whether it is our words and actions, we have fallen into a profound gratefulness and an understanding that the more we share, the more we have, and the more we have to share.
Round and round and round and round… May we each arrive here. May we each know abundance. May we all share.

There’s a lot to do, but then I thought, why not sit and watch these friends do their work? A Hummingbird visited while ...
08/06/2026

There’s a lot to do, but then I thought, why not sit and watch these friends do their work? A Hummingbird visited while I sat (next to the Hummingbird Sage), someone else flew in to rest awhile in the shade, it all felt very intentional. We can often feel like our work is small (and to be sure, it is!), but it only takes a moment to reconsider, especially when surrounded by millions of buzzing wings. To these friend’s, this work is possibly the best part of their day. We’ll take that as work well done. For now.

What started as a trickle in early July has picked us up and swept us into the full current of another harvest season as...
08/05/2026

What started as a trickle in early July has picked us up and swept us into the full current of another harvest season as we are carried through the twists and turns of summer and coming fall on our journey back to the sea. Old friends, these Ziar breadseed poppies. and I’d wager there’s a very good chance of a tea cake in our near future.

Seeds are here and they are remarkable. Often tiny, always storied, capsules of time and place and relationships. Vibran...
07/26/2026

Seeds are here and they are remarkable. Often tiny, always storied, capsules of time and place and relationships.
Vibrant. Unique. Funny. Slippery. Nourishing in all ways.
If we breathe just a little, if a ladybug wobbles by, a dragonfly, a hoverfly, a fruit fly for goodness sakes, these minuscule miracles reseed themselves and fast!

We breathed very little.
They will still and always find a way to reappear next season.
Thank Goodness!

There have been a couple weeks of ripe tomatoes, but the first Cuor di Bue Albenga marks the beginning of tomato season.
07/25/2026

There have been a couple weeks of ripe tomatoes, but the first Cuor di Bue Albenga marks the beginning of tomato season.

Oh my. The brilliance of Breadseed Poppies is Breathtaking! PS: This is an adult hand.
07/18/2026

Oh my. The brilliance of Breadseed Poppies is Breathtaking!
PS: This is an adult hand.

Hungarian Rice Beans are FULL ON!!!Why is no one planting these beans?! Now, we cannot make you, but you will be happy i...
07/15/2026

Hungarian Rice Beans are FULL ON!!!
Why is no one planting these beans?! Now, we cannot make you, but you will be happy if you sow these and then eat them. Promise! Also, we will be happy, and spreading happiness is always a win...♥

In a brief mention of this charming variety, buried within a description of the Comtesse de Chambord rice bean, Vilmorin’s The Vegetable Garden from 1885 states that there is a “very small-seeded variety of this plant, which produces vast numbers of pods”. Vilmorin calls this the Haricot Nain de Hongrie, Hungarian Dwarf Rice Bean. While these two appear together in print, the Hungarian Rice Bean is likely more closely related to the Flageolet Vert, with whom it shares a slender, oblong seed shape and a proclivity to produce many pods. Due to the petite dimensions, rice beans cook up rather quickly, 25-30 mins, without the need to soak beforehand. The cooked beans are toothsome and creamy, their skin keeping them together while cooking but easily yielding to the bite. Excellent dressed lightly with salt and olive oil, the eye-catching miniature seeds also have us dreaming of pairing them with other tiny foods!
Truly a unique and remarkable bean at 1/4” long and 1/8” wide, highly recommended! Amazing flavor in a tiny package.

**Makes a lovely, thin, tender, and sweet SNAP BEAN (Haricot Vert) that is quite productive!**
And this is how we’ll be eating them tonight…GREEN!!!

If enjoying as a dry bean, dryplants Very well, as the podsLOVE to hold onto their seeds!

Our first and favorite green pole bean!We sowed these mid Spring and they are currently 8’ tall! (Tanya’s Pink Pod overl...
07/13/2026

Our first and favorite green pole bean!
We sowed these mid Spring and they are currently 8’ tall! (Tanya’s Pink Pod overlay for size reference).
These beans are known for their incredible taste, length (up to 16”), and eating even when plump. In the seed world they are also known as all this, and a very shy producer of seed! Difficult seed to find (at least grown domestically), and rare to find in bulk.
Who knows what these are???
You *might* even find them at a farm-stand if you’re lucky!
If you guess right I may even send you some….😉
Second photo: look at this beauty that popped up in the ? GREEN pole beans!!
Flagged and ready to save seed for a new to us variety?!

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Bellingham, WA
98225

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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