Uprising Seeds

With the Radiant onset of Spring, it’s time to join in an ancient tradition known as BEANS!
A 9000+ yr old journey beginning in Mexico and Peru to Turtle Island, and into Asia, Africa, and Europe, beans have been continually moving into our stories and becoming intricate parts of our celebrations.
With over 40,000 varieties (of which we offer 44!), you have lots to choose from!

While often, and mistakingly, called “poor man’s meat,”beans are an amazing food providing protein, fiber, folate, iron, potassium, magnesium, manganese, copper, zinc, thiamine, B6, folic acid, flavonoids and rich in lignans.
They improve soil fertility and require significantly less fertilizer, water, and land than other types of protein.
They revel in their relationship with Rhizobia bacteria, that converts nitrogen from the air into usable fuel, and benefit plants around them.
Plus, they are gorgeous, loved especially by Bumblebees, and happily visited by Hummingbirds and Butterflies!

And while there are many ways to prepare them, including eating them fresh, you will find that we most often include only 3 ingredients: beans, good olive oil, and salt. Their unique flavors and textures stand on their own.
We eat a lot of beans.
Eat Your Beans!!

Thanks to those of you joining us in the General Strike against the campaign of fear mongering and terrorism being perpetrated in our communities by the federal government through ICE.
It’s not always easy to know the best way to forge a path toward the future based in equity, collaboration, and relationship that we envision, but it is important at this moment to stand with communities facing the brunt of these divisive and dangerous forces in power and disrupt business as usual. There are so many ways to do this. Pick one!

This has always been the heart of our work: to be a conduit of connectivity and relationship through the common wealth of seeds. To learn from their generosity and the stories of place, migration, change, and resilience that they carry in them.

This moment in time may feel extreme to some, but it is certainly nothing new and has been the lived experience of communities marginalized by targeted oppression forever. Speaking this truth is essential for radical change.
We’re confident that the vast majority of us have more in common that we value than those in power who divide and exploit for personal gain. We hold more power than their house of cards ever will. Let’s use it to uplift and care for one another.
Every day.

Just in case you don’t visit our stories.
There is so much you can choose to support located here.
Give what you can, and remember that whatever you have, multiplied by millions, is huge. We ❤️ You.