Adopt a seed.

Every variety in the library has to be grown out every few years, or its seed slowly loses the will to germinate. Adopting a seed pays for that growing.

Choose a variety that is close to being lost and we will grow it out for a year in your name. At the end of the season you receive a hand-written report from the grower who kept it, and a packet of its seed to plant yourself. It is the closest thing we know to keeping a promise to the future.

01Choose how

Every tier lasts one growing year

$36 a year

SproutFunds the cleaning, germination testing and record-keeping of one variety’s seed for a year.

A hand-written report on your variety each December
One packet of its seed to plant yourself

$90 a year

SeasonFunds a full growing season of one variety at a partner farm, from the first sowing to the saved seed.

A hand-written grow-out report with photographs
Two packets of seed to plant yourself
Your name in the variety’s permanent record

$240 a year

StewardFunds the grow-out, testing and duplication of one variety into all three vaults for a year.

A hand-written report and seasonal letters from the grower
Three packets of seed to plant and to share
Your name in the variety’s permanent record
An invitation to the harvest day in Hudson

02Choose a seed

These varieties are kept by only a handful of growers. One bad season could lose them.

No. 0741LegumeAt risk

Old Cloud Bean

Record

Chiloé, Chile · 1919

A climbing bean from the island of Chiloé with white seeds clouded in gray and violet, no two marked the same.

Kept by 4 growers in the network

03Your details

Your adoption

Old Cloud Bean

No. 0741

Season$90 a year

Adoptions are not seed sales. Every dollar goes to growing, testing and storing the variety you choose. We will write within two working days to confirm your adoption and arrange payment.