Where to find local seeds in Canada
April 29, 2020
Seed diversity delivers a rainbow of colours and flavours to your plate. It also makes your crops robust and resilient to climate change. Here’s how you can find local seeds and keep seed diversity alive.
Most food starts from a seed, and that seed evolved through the work of hundreds of generations of careful seed savers. But in the 20th century alone, 75 per cent of the world’s crop diversity was lost. It’s been replaced by a small number of varieties bred for industrial farming, and sold through a handful of multinational companies.
It’s time to reclaim the power of food.
No matter the size of your garden, if you plant, save and share unique seed varieties, you can keep them from disappearing. And if you order from local independent seed growers, you’ll also support their work to rebuild Canada’s supply of diverse, locally-adapted seeds for farmers.
Where to start?
If you’re not sure what you’re looking for yet, find an independent seed grower near you in the list below and ask them what Canadian seeds they have on offer.
If you’re looking for a specific crop or variety, search our Ecological Seed Finder, maintained in collaboration with our partner Seeds of Diversity.
Notice a broken link or a Canadian seed company missing from the list? Please let us know.
ALBERTA
A’Bunadh Seeds
Casey’s Heirloom Tomatoes
Eagle Creek Seed Potatoes
Harmonic Herbs
Tree Time
Wildrose Heritage Seed
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Across the Creek Organics
Apple Luscious Organic Orchard
BC EcoSeed Co-op
BC’s Wild Heritage Plants
Boundary Garlic
Brother Nature Organic Seeds
Choked Up
Cowichan Incubator Seed Farm and Library
Eagle Ridge Seeds
Eternal Seed
Fraser’s Thimble Farms
Full Circle Seeds
Good Earth Farms
Grim’s Gourmet Garlic
Helmer’s Organic Farm
Laughing Swan Farm
Manhattan Farms
Metchosin Farm Seeds
Naramata Seed Company
Nicola Valley Produce
Norwegian Creek Farm
Omega Blue Farms
Pacific Northwest Seeds
Planting Seeds Project
Rebecca’s Garden
Red Lion Farm
Saanich Native Plants
Salt Spring Apple Company
Salt Spring Seeds
Seeds of the Revolution-Saanich Organics
Sweet Rock Farms
Sunshine Farm Certified Organic Seeds
Tatiana’s Tomato Base
The Market Garden
West Coast Seeds
MANITOBA
Heritage Harvest Seed
John Boy Farms
Lindenberg Seeds
McKenzie Seed
Sage Garden Herbs
T & T Seeds Ltd.
Winnipeg Sweet Potato
NEW BRUNSWICK
Atlantic Pepper Seeds
Cornhill Nursery
Culberson Produce
Ferme Spirale Farm
Halifax Seed (New Brunswick location)
Mapple Farm
Rainbow Seeds
NEWFOUNDLAND
Perfectly Perennial Herbs and Seeds
The Seed Company by E.W. Gaze
Seed to Spoon Farm
NOVA SCOTIA
Annapolis Seeds
Broadfork Farm
Cochrane Family Seeds
Halifax Seed
Hope Seeds
Howard Dill Enterprises
La Finquita
Seed and Scarecrow Farm
The Incredible Seed Company
Twisted Brook Farm
Yonder Hill Farm
ONTARIO
AgroHaiTai Ltd.
Almer’s Organics
Beaver Pond Estates
Bear Root Gardens
Berton Seeds
Bird and Bee
D & H Newman
De Dell Seeds
Ellenberger Organic Farm
Eureka Garlic
Florabunda Seeds
Golden Acres Farm
Golden Bough Tree Farm
Greta’s Organic Gardens
Hawthorn Farm
Heritage Seed and Produce
Kitchen Table Seed House
Kula Permaculture Farm
Langside Farms
Matchbox Garden and Seed Company
Mountain Grove Seed Company
Norton Naturals
OSC Seeds (Ontario Seed Company)
Railway Creek Farms
Rasa Creek Farm
Richter’s Herbs
Rhora’s Nut Farm & Nursery
Seeds of Diversity Canada
Seeds of IMBOLC
Silver Creek Nursery
Soggy Creek Seed Co
Superior Seed Producers
Stokes Seeds Ltd
Terra Edibles
The Cutting Veg
Three Forks Farm
Urban Harvest
Urban Tomato
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Emmerdale Eden Organic Farm
PEI Seed Alliance
Veseys Seed
QUEBEC
Ferme écomaraîchère La croisée des cultures
Green Barn Nursery
Hardy Fruit Trees Nursery
Jardin des Vie la joie
Jardins de la Gaillarde
La Societé des plantes
La Ferme Coopérative Tourne Sol
Le Jardin de Julie
Le potager ornemental de Catherine
Le Noyau
Les Jardins de l’Écoumène
Les Jardins du Grand Portage
Les jardins féconds de Kélanie
Les semences du batteux
Semences Mont Royal – Mount Royal Seeds
Mycoflor
Pépinière ancestrale
Potager d’Antan
Samour Garlic
Seeds for Food
Solana Seeds
Terre Promise
W.H.Perron
Zombie Seedz
SASKATCHEWAN
Early’s Farm and Garden Centre
Mum’s Sprouting Seeds
Prairie Garden Seeds
Ravensong Seeds
Saskgarlic.ca
Other great resources to find good seeds in Canada:
Seeds of Diversity’s Canadian Seed Catalogue Index
ACORN’s Atlantic Grown Seed directory
Farm Folk City Folks’ list of BC Seed Companies
SeedChange and Seeds of Diversity’s Ecological Seed Finder
Community seed libraries listed on the Community Seed Network
