The List

This list includes just a few growers. Many we have experience with, others particularly not in our regions, we've just noted here to help others.  We're not vouching for anything here and don't have a commercial reimbursement relationship with any of these. It's just a list of links we've gathered down through the years. We can have conversations about our experiences with some of them, and can add or remove links as things change. (If you find a dead link, or have a recommendation particularly to help me fill out some Canadian sources, drop us a line.) We may or may not be thrilled by the politics of some I've listed here but have reasons for listing them, so decide for yourself what you find useful in this.

One additional note: we don't exactly have a 'Who NOT to buy seeds from' section on this list, there would be a number of places we'd have to mention, but down through the years we've had various conversations in particular about "Baker Creek/Rare Seeds" and have explained why we will not support them (nor link them.) Others (see here and here for examples) have done a much better job of explaining some of why or have pointed at articles (see here and this here which gives them a certain benefit of the doubt that the inclusion was a "mistake," to point at just two pieces) that have solidified our refusal.  In any case, a quick search on "Baker Creek Controversy" will bring you plenty of comment threads and Tik Toks on the subject. We have many reasons for not supporting them, doubly so when even their own customers decry the lousy germanation rates and customer 'service' they experience with them.

U.S.
Organic seed producers directory

Adaptive Seeds
Alliance of Native Seedkeepers / Bertie County Seeds
American Meadows
A Promise to Gaia
Botanical Interests
Burpee
Driftless Seed Supply
Earthbeat Seeds
Eden Brothers
Edible Acres
Ernst Seed
Experimental Farm Network
Fedco Seeds
Fellabees and Nativeseeds
Ferry-Morse
Forrest Keeling Nursery
Fruition Seeds
Great Lakes Staple Seeds
High Mowing Seeds
Hudson Valley Seed Company
Izel Native Plants
Johnny's Selected Seeds
Joyful Butterfly
Kitazawa at True Leaf
Melanated Organics
MI Gardener
Mountain Gardens
Native American Seed
Nichols Garden Nursery
North Creek Nurseries
N.E. Seed
Nourse Farms
Ohio Heirloom Seeds
Ohio Prairie Nursery (OPN Seed)
Pinetree Garden Seeds
Prairie Moon Nursery
Rebel Hill Farm
Redwood Seeds
Renee's Garden
Row 7 Seed Company
Sierra Seeds
Siskiyou Seeds
Sistah Seeds
Snake River Seed Cooperative
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Sow True Seed
Strictly Medicinal Seeds
Swallowtail Garden Seeds
Taylor Creek Restoration Nurseries
Tejas Prairie
Territorial Seed Company
Transition Farm
True Love Seeds
Turtle Tree Seeds
Two Seeds in a Pod
Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance
Uprising Seeds
Urban Garden Project
The Utopian Seed Project
Vermont Wildflower Farm
Victory Seed Company
Wild Garden Seed
Wildseed Farms
Wild Seed Project

U.S. -  a state by state listing of seed sources

U.S. - also see this listing for state by state native  plants listings.

U.S. And Canada - see the long list, particularly of Canadian sources at the end of this blog post

Canadian

A'Bunadh Seeds
Akene
Anokian Seeds
B.C. Eco Seed Co-op
Hawthorn Farm

Ravensong Seeds and Herbals
Richters Seeds

Select Links

While there are almost endless links we could add to help with some of your decision making processes, I've included just a few here.

Food Not Lawns- "Seed Stewardship and Why It Matters"

Foodprint- "Returning seeds to their ancestors: Revitalizing biodiversity and foodways through plant rematriation"

University of Maryland Extension Service- "How to choose a seed catalog"

Black Girls Gardening in Containers - "20 Black-Owned Seed Companies to Buy from for Spring Container Planting"

Traditional Center for Indigenous Knowedge and Healing "Indigenous Owned Seed and Plant Companies"

EcoWatch "24 LGBTQ+ Farms and Organizations  Celebrating Community Through Food and Agriculture"