Community Garden Magazine Issue Eight April 2016 Community Garden Magazine Issue Eight April 2016 | Page 28

Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company
Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company is excited to offer 3 fantastic seed catalogs for the 2016
growing season. The largest is the Whole Seed Catalog at a whopping 356 pages and the largest
that we have ever created. This spectacular catalog is filled with our 2016 seed offerings, as well
as many pages of stories and histories about seeds, magnificent photographs, human interest
stories, anecdotes from gardeners, and so much more. The Whole Seed Catalog is the only
catalog for which we charge a fee. It is available on our website www.rareseeds.com, at Barnes
and Noble, Whole Foods Market, and multiple other retailers.
Our second catalog available is our 196-page Rare Seed Catalog. While it contains the
mouthwatering photographs of our produce and flowers, it does not have all of the feature and
human interest articles of our larger catalog. This catalog is automatically sent to all of our
regular customers who placed an order of $10 or more during the past 18 months. The Rare
Seed Catalog includes all of our heirloom seed offerings but is not available by request.
The Good Seed Catalog is our newest endeavor in the seed catalog world. It is a toned-down
version of our other catalogs and is free to anyone who requests it. While it does not contain all
of our seed and live plant listings, it does include our most popular heirloom varieties with
complete descriptions and photographs.
Baker Creek is on the cutting edge of saving plant diversity. Company owner, Jere Gettle, got
into the seed business because he was watching some of his favorite seed varieties disappear
from seed catalogs. His passion is discovering old varieties and offering them anew. He loves to