Posted in CA Seed Store, Petaluma, events on Sep 2nd, 2010
We had a full house at The Seed Bank last week for Amy Rice Jones’s free talk on fall planting. Farm manager for Petaluma’s popular food growing non profit, Amy is well respected in the community for her wealth of knowledge on sustainable farming and raising all things green. And her talk was full of great tips for local gardeners hoping to reap the bounty of a fall and winter vegetable garden.
Posted in CA Seed Store, Petaluma, events on Aug 5th, 2010
Maybe you don’t give fish a second thought. You shop for fresh fillets at your favorite whole food market and enjoy a salmon dinner now and then. But if you attended food journalist Paul Greenberg’s talk at The Seed Bank last night, you’ll most likely look at this ocean-born food source a little differently from now on.
Posted in CA Seed Store, Petaluma, gardening on Aug 3rd, 2010
Kenwood beekeeper Randy Sue Collins says she probably knew a lot about honeybees before finding out she knew a lot about honeybees. Huh? You say. What she means is she feels as though she has an innate knowledge of this super smart insect, a knowing and passion that began surfacing when she came across some bee hives in a friend’s almond grove three years ago.
Posted in CA Seed Store, Petaluma on May 12th, 2010
Last spring Jere and Emilee Gettle, owners of Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company and Bakersville Pioneer Village in Mansfield, Missouri, were wading through piles of paperwork to make their dream of a West Coast location a reality. By June, they opened the doors of their newest store, The Seed Bank, in a grand 1920’s Roman Renaissance Revival style building on the corner of a bustling thoroughfare in Petaluma, California, within a 50 mile radius of half their California mail order customers.
Posted in CA Seed Store, Instructional Videos, Seed Store on Mar 26th, 2010
Learn about our heirloom radish varieties and how to grow them!