Fruition Seeds

Friends, rather than selling and shipping seeds, we now share seeds as an embodied gift practice. Learnhow to receive seeds from us& here are our FAQs. We believe each seed, like each of us, is in the world to change the world. In the heart of the Finger Lakes of western New York, Fruition’s Mission: We grow and gift regionally adapted seeds, transplants and trees as well as the tools, inspiration & insight for us all to thrive. Join our many gatheringssharing seeds as we cultivate food and community together! We vision a world where we share the abundance of our gardens in the long tables of our communities. Gardens grow us more than we grow them and thanks for growing with us in all the ways, Friends. After 12 years of growing, selling and shipping seeds, Fruition has committed to growing and gifting our beloved seeds: Let’s cultivate gift culture together! If you’re hungry for a long, soul-searching story about how we’ve come to this moment, savor our blog:Fruition’s End & New Beginning: The gift of embracing change together and trusting abundance shared. Peek atour upcoming eventswhere you can receive the gift of our seeds, both here on the farm and well beyond. If you’d love to explore collaborating with us to bring seeds to your community,hop on this blogto learn more and don’t be shy! We are a non-profit 501(c)3 organization and if you’d love to support our work, we thank and we love you!We share our relational, material and financial needs hereand if you’d love to send us a check, write it to Fruition Community Seed Farm. We love food. We love people. We love growing food, nourishing community and celebrating resilience with relationship and reciprocity at the center. Caring for our community, celebrating our ancestors & nourishing all generations of all species to come inspires us to jump out of bed each and every day. When people ask if we have children, we say, ‘yes, and great-great-great grandchildren! And they grow us more than we grow them.’ Most sincerely, these seeds are our family. Well-adapted to thrive in our short seasons, our seeds have remarkably early maturity and many share extraordinary cold hardiness as well as disease resistance. They also thrive well outside our bioregion, learn morehere! And are they delicious? Why else would we even share them! And Friends, all our seeds are open-pollinated varieties for you to save and share, except for one F1 tomato, Summer Sweetheart. We celebrate and share both historical heirlooms as well as developour own varietieswith our community, as heirlooms of future generations. We grow about sixty percent of our seed on our farm, sourcing the balance from growers, mostly in the Northeast, who share our vision for regional adaptation. We’re building a map to celebrate them all, stay tuned! We grow on twenty acres in what is now known as Naples on the southern edge of Canandaigua Lake, in the heart of the New York Finger Lakes. We ​humbly acknowledge we occupy the ancestral and treaty lands of the Haudenosaunee Seneca People. This land has shown us the gift of community, connection, and reverence. May we continue to seek guidance from the elders and land-keepers that have been nurturing the biodiversity of this region for countless generations.  Hope to see you here one day! Whoever you are, wherever you are, thank you for joining us on the journey! Whether you’ve sown ten or ten thousand or zero seeds in your life, we’re grateful to do our work for you & with you. & the many Possibilities of Fruition We can’t wait to see you at one of Fruition’seventsorworkshops(you’ll find ourcalendar here). Fruition is also open to the public on weekends in April & May for Fruition’s Garden Store! See you soon! If you haven’t already,join in to receive our organic gardening newsletterfor invitations and behind the scenes skills and stories from the farm. Rise & Shine:Starting Seeds with Ease! Download our free 40-page ebook, sharing everything you need to star