Seeds

Accessing high-quality (and often free) seeds is easier than you may think! Check out the organizations below for more information on where to purchase seeds from local and regional sources, along with organizations that organize seed and plant sharing events in the DC-metro area.

5th Street Ace Hardware

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Locally owned hardware store on 5th St near Mt. Vernon Sq. in Washington DC.

5th Street Ace Hardware

American Meadows

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Online retailers of wildflower seeds, perennial plants, flower bulbs and vegetable seeds.

American Meadows

American Plant

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We at American Plant, family-owned environmentally responsible garden centers, providing superior plants, products, knowledge and services for our customers and community.

American Plant

Annie’s Ace Hardware – Brookland

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We are a locally owned and operated hardware store convenient serving the Brookland, Brentwood, Eckington, Michigan Park, and Edgewood communities in DC.

Annie’s Ace Hardware – Brookland

Annie’s Ace Hardware – Petworth

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Locally owned and operated hardware store convenient to the Petworth, Park View and Columbia Heights communities in Washington, D.C. (Annie’s Ace has locations in Petworth and Brookland DC).

Annie’s Ace Hardware – Petworth

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

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We offer 1400 heirloom varieties.  We only sell open-pollinated seeds: pure, natural & non-GMO! Started in 1998 by Jere Gettle, as a means to preserve heirloom seeds.

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Behnke Nurseries

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Behnke Nurseries sells a full range of ornamental and edible gardening plants, for outdoors and indoors, and everything you need to make them grow. We also have excellent landscape and florist services. Our events reinforce our commitment to bringing gardens and nature to the public.

Behnke Nurseries

Burpee

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Retailer whose seeds and plants are available for all growing zones and for all seasons and Burpee guarantees each and every product.

Burpee

Fedco Seeds

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Fedco Seeds provides untreated vegetable and flower seeds, seed potatoes, bare root nursery stock, flower bulbs, seed garlic, and growing supplies.

Fedco Seeds

Frager’s Hardware

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Hardware store that sells plants, gardening equipment; and supplies. Rents tools. Locally owned and operated since 1920.

Frager’s Hardware

Ginkgo Gardens

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Urban garden center offering indoor & outdoor plants, tools & statues, plus design services.

Ginkgo Gardens

High Mowing Organic Seeds Garden

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High Mowing is an independent seed company offering 100% organic, non-GMO seeds.

High Mowing Organic Seeds Garden

Home Depot

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The Home Depot is a big box hardware chain with locations in and around DC.

Home Depot

Johnny’s Seed Company

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Johnny’s Selected Seeds is committed to helping growers and gardeners succeed with superior seeds, tools, information, and service.

Johnny’s Seed Company

Johnson’s Florist & Garden Centers

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The Washington, DC metropolitan area’s premier, neighborhood, family-owned florist and garden center.

Johnson’s Florist & Garden Centers

Lake Valley Seeds

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Lake Valley Seed is a full line garden seed company that sells packaged flower, herb and vegetable seeds to independent retailers for resale.

Lake Valley Seeds

Lowe’s

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Lowe’s is a big box hardware chain with locations in and around DC.

Lowe’s

Merrifeld Garden Center

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We’re a full-service garden center, nursery and landscaping company that has been serving customers throughout Northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area since 1971. With three full-service garden centers in Virginia – Merrifield, Fairfax and Gainesville – we offer one of the largest selections of plants and gardening accessories in the entire country.

Merrifeld Garden Center

Native Seeds

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The mission of Native Seeds/SEARCH (Southwestern Endangered Aridland Resources Clearing House) is to conserve, distribute, and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seeds, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwest and northwest Mexico.

Native Seeds

Old City Farm & Guild

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Old City Farm & Guild is a green space that provides educational programming and facilitates community activities surrounding gardening, nutrition, and environmental education. It is a hub for other green organizations to cross-pollinate. It sells plants, soil, and other gardening supplies in order to support the cost of running these programs; and provides a CSA program for our neighbors, and organic vegetables and fruits for public gardens and area organizations. “Where people and Plants Come Together”.

Old City Farm & Guild

Patuxent Nursery

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Patuxent features a gardening oriented gift shop, outdoor living accessories, the largest selection of trees and shrubs in the metro area, the most amazing assortment of colorful flowers, perennials, tropicals and organically grown edibles.

Patuxent Nursery

Seed Keepers Collective

Join the DC Seed Keepers Collective! Gardeners, because: you grow; you want to help protect our food system; the plant people of color developed are an essential part of everyone’s diet; and we need each other. If you’re in DC, MD or VA and want to help farmers save seeds. Sign up. You get free/cheap seeds in interesting varieties and learn how to grow our supply of safe, diverse seed.

Seed Keepers Collective

Seeds Of Change

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Our company has evolved to be a strong producer of organic foods. Our line of organic rice and grain blends were inspired by the notion that great taste and sustainability go hand in hand. (Owned by Mars and based in Canada.)

Seeds Of Change

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

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Southern Exposure Seed Exchange offers more than 700 varieties of vegetable, flower, herb, grain and cover crop seeds. It emphasizes varieties that perform well in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, although gardeners and farmers from all over the country grow our seeds. This worker-run cooperative does not sell chemically treated or GMO seeds.

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

Tenleytown Ace Hardware

Locally owned hardware store on Wisconsin Ave in Tenleytown, DC.

Tenleytown Ace Hardware

Territorial Seed Company

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Our purpose is to improve people’s self-sufficiency and independence by enabling gardeners to produce an abundance of good tasting, fresh from the garden food, twelve months a year.

Territorial Seed Company

The Victory Seed Company

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No unstable hybrids, chemically treated seeds, or GMOs. Seed saving and farming since the early 1900s, we only offer heirloom, rare, open-pollinated seeds to home gardeners.               

The Victory Seed Company

Turtle Tree Seed

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We are a non-profit seed company that sells 100% open-pollinated non-gmo vegetable, herb and flower seeds, all grown using biodynamic

Turtle Tree Seed

Washington Gardener

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Washington Gardener magazine, blog, enewsletter and events are designed specifically for gardeners in the District of Coumbia and its suburbs.

Washington Gardener

Woodley Park Ace Hardware

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Locally owned harware store on Connecticut Ave in Woodley Park, DC.

Woodley Park Ace Hardware

WS Jenks

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Welcome to W.S. Jenks & Son, Established in 1866, W.S. Jenks is Washington’s most complete source for Tools, Hardware, and Machinery.

WS Jenks

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