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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Pacific Northwest Seed Companies

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

If you live up in the pacific northwest, here are a few of Brijette’s favorite seed companies.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone?

0:02.0

What's going on everyone?

0:04.0

What's going on,

0:07.0

what's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

0:16.2

podcast. We are talking with Regette Pena of San Diego Seed Company. We've been

0:21.0

going through some different local regional seed companies to

0:24.6

support especially during these very unique and very interesting times that we are

0:29.1

living in so yesterday we talked about Southwest USA.

0:33.4

Today we're going to the PMW, we're going to the Pacific Northwest.

0:37.6

What are some companies that our eyes should be focused on up there, Bridget?

0:41.8

All right. Well, super excited to get this information out to everyone and you know I just

0:47.6

want to mention that there's so many great seed companies out there we could spend four hours

0:51.9

talking about everybody so I'm sure we're

0:54.3

missing some people but these are just some really neat, smaller mom and pop run seed

0:59.1

companies that do really good work and are sending out orders around the clock right now.

1:05.0

And in fact you might be able to get your orders a little bit quicker than some larger seed companies because they just have smaller operations.

1:12.0

So, quail seeds is actually a really neat

1:15.2

seed company I don't know Kevin if you've ever heard of bountiful garden seeds no it's

1:20.0

not ringing about okay so they they are a seed company it's been around forever and they not seeds and she is actually right on the Eel River in up in Northern California and they

1:36.9

have a beautiful catalog of seeds available with some stuff that you really just can't find anywhere else.

1:43.7

Some really neat varieties that are heritage varieties from California and the Pacific Northwest.

1:50.5

And so I talked to them just before doing this podcast to make sure that they were hanging in there with all of the orders and they said they're getting orders out in about four days right now.

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