Southwest USA Seed Companies
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Living in the southwest USA? Here are a few companies we think you should support with your gardening dollar.
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In 2010, when owner Brijette Peña came to the stark conclusion that few companies were producing regionally adapted seeds for Southern California climates, she took an oath. An oath to produce organic, regionally adapted seeds that gardeners, farmers and market growers could depend on.
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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 to be? |
| 0:06.0 | What's going on everyone? Kevin Espiritu here on the Epic Gardening |
| 0:17.2 | podcast. We are joined again and for the rest of the week by Bridget Pena. She is the owner of San Diego Seed Company, which you guys know I've talked about quite a bit. |
| 0:27.3 | She was one of the early original guests here on the Epic Gardening Podcast. |
| 0:30.8 | And this week we're coming to you with kind of like a special broadcast I guess you could say right? |
| 0:35.3 | Yeah, I feel like it's very special. Yeah, so we're profiling |
| 0:39.9 | Local Seed Company specific to different regions of the USA that you can and we highly recommend that you do support |
| 0:48.0 | especially as some of the larger seed companies are running out of stock or having to prioritize when and where they are sending seeds. |
| 0:55.2 | And so we're starting out with our home region and |
| 0:58.0 | Brzat why don't we talk about just first of all I guess we can talk about |
| 1:01.2 | San Diego seacoming but what are the other ones in our region that people should be focused on? |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, well, I'm super happy to be on the podcast and be able to talk about Seed Companies and Seed in general. |
| 1:11.0 | It's obviously something I'm super passionate about. |
| 1:14.0 | In the American Southwest and Southern California specifically there's some really |
| 1:20.7 | neat companies that are that carry some rare varieties that do |
| 1:25.3 | specifically well in our type of climates you know semi-arid arid you know onions |
| 1:32.4 | that are short day onions, which are really important in the southern part of the United States. |
| 1:37.0 | And so, before I talk about myself, I would love to talk about another company that's doing some really good stuff it's called |
| 1:43.6 | the Plant Good Seed Company I don't know if you Kevin have ever worked with them or |
| 1:48.8 | or gotten seed from them I have not worked with them but they are familiar to me by |
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