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Seed Sources and Sales
    Listed below are on-line non-profit and commercial Web sites worldwide for obtaining seeds or other propagation material for cover crops, green manures, forages, agroforestry/forestry species, selected other agricultural species and microsymbionts.

Individual Suppliers

  • Pirai Sementes is a Brazilian company offering a variety of seeds for green manuring. (For English language summary, select the "Empresa" button and click on the American flag.)
  • SEFO Forage Seed Company, located in Cochabamba, Bolivia, sells cover crop, pasture and forage seed locally and internationally.
  • The Inland & Foreign Trading Co. (Pte) Ltd, a Singapore-based company, markets seed of legume cover crops, pasture, shrubs, trees, etc., used primarily in subtropical/tropical countries.
  • www.tropical-seeds.com sells seeds and provides basic information on a number of tropical and Asian plants.
  • SeedSwapper.com contains lists of people who have seeds to trade. Browse for available seed or post your own request.
  • The MBRLC Products Page lists agroforestry and vegetable seeds that can be ordered from the Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center in the Philippines. Prices are in US dollars or Philippine pesos.
  • DSV (Germany) sells seeds of legumes, forage grasses, cereals, catch crops, green manures, oil crops and turf grasses by mail. Browse the briefly annotated lists of available species in English on this page.
  • The New Forests Project's tree species page has information on several agroforestry and foresty tree species and how to order them-- Spanish (Especies disponibles de Projecto Nuevos Bosques) and French (Semences d'arbres disponsibles du Projet Nouvelles Forets) translations are available by scrolling down the page.
  • Eastern Native Seed Conservancy is a non-profit organization that collects, preserves, and sells seeds from the eastern USA.
  • Agroforester.com's website allows users to purchase agroforestry tree seedlings.
  • The Agroforestry Research Trust (UK based) site allows seeds and plants to be purchased online or by phone, fax, or mail. Temperate agroforestry species, including tree, shrub and perennial crops are available as well as non-woody species intercropped with perennial species.
  • Hannas Seeds is a Candian seed retailer specializing in forages and cover crops. Their website offers useful product information as well as links to seed associations and other agri-information.

Lists of Seed Suppliers

  • ECHO's Alternate Seed Source page provides a list of seed suppliers worldwide that cover a wide range of agricultural varieties, including agroforestry and horticulture species, "alternative" crops and BNF innoculants. (Click on overseas seedbank listing, then on alternate seed sources in left column)
  • The Sustainable Farming Connection's Cover Crop and Forage Seed Sources page lists over 25 URLs for purchasing (primarily temperate) legumes, grasses and other species for improving pastures and building soils.
  • The Seed Suppliers (must select Appendix D) of the on-line publication Managing Cover Crops Profitably lists US-based sources of primarily temperate and sub-tropical cover crops, forage legumes, grasses and other selected agricultural crops.
  • The World List for Seed Sources is a searchable FAO-based database that includes sources of plant species related to soil health as well as many other agricultural uses.
  • Ontario's Cover Crop Seed Suppliers is maintained by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food in Ontario, Canada
  • The Vetiver Network's Vetiver Grass source page locates seed for Asia, Africa and Latin America (also lists consultants).
  • The World Agroforestry Center's Tree Seed Supplier's Directory contains information on agroforestry and other tree seed sources.
  • SeedQuest (an information service for seed professionals) lists a variety of seeds and companies selling them. Some of the seeds are only made available to professional seed buyers.
  • Forage Information System's Seed Vendors' page lists over 100 seed companies selling forage seeds, many of which have additional impacts on soil health.
 

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