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| | | | Site Information | | | Offers wildflower and prairie grass seeds from the Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana region. Includes catalog and order form.
| Native American Seed is a family-owned business. It was born in a space we created out behind the barn on our little 7-acre patch of prairie remnant in Argyle, Texas, when our son Weston came along to join his sister Emily and it was clearly time to move our office out of the house. Our basic training had been in the Blackland Prairie and Cross Timbers area, now mostly paved over by the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The business of locating, harvesting and selling native wildflower and grass seeds came to us not as an ideology or abstract idea, but out of years of experience in landscape construction and the nursery business. That's a story in itself, and you can read all about it on a page called "What We're About."
We moved to the outskirts of the Texas Hill Country in the summer of 1995, where we found a beautiful place on the South Llano River just outside the town of Junction. We now have our own warehouse in what used to be the Junction roller skating rink. Its sturdy wood floor and big open space, with the snack bar and offices separated out towards the front, are perfect for our needs. And there are big open doors on one side where our trucks can bring in the seeds we have harvested and dried, cleaned and tested and bagged. The UPS man drives up next to those same big warehouse doors and picks up your order for delivery to you. For those of you who enjoy learning about what really "makes things tick," we've described the whole process from start to finish on a page called "From the Field to You."
Our farm on the Llano River near Junction, Texas.
Our booth in the annual festival held by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center near Austin, Texas. What makes us different from many other wildflower seed companies is our commitment to offering only those plants that are native to our bioregion. You won't find African daisies, bluebonnets that have been grown in China, or even California poppies in any of our mixes. Not because we don't think they're pretty - they are! But because we understand that every ecosystem is a delicate web of relationships that have evolved over centuries. And humans, with all their power of creativity and imagination, must respect the wisdom of those centuries before entering into the processes of nature as active participants. To illustrate that understanding, we've written a little story called "What is a native, anyway?" And as you explore the rest of the pages in our site, you'll see all the different ways we put our understanding into practice.
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| | Date Added: Sat May 01 2004 | | Last Updated: Sat May 01 2004 | | | | |
