Fruition Seeds Blog
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Our blog sharing the deep dive of how we do what we do and how you can do it, too. In the heart of the Finger Lakes of western New York, Fruition shares organic, regionally adapted seeds as well as the tools, inspiration & insight for us all to thrive.
Fruition Seeds Blog
4M ago
Saturday, August 19, 2023noon to 3 pm at Fruition Seeds free! Each year we grow hundreds of organic watermelons just for the seeds inside, so join us enjoying the juicy sweet abundance! We’ll tour the farm together at 1 and peek behind the scenes to make selections for many Fruition Original varieties including sunflowers, peppers ..read more
Fruition Seeds Blog
4M ago
~ just a loving reminder that you are enough, just like your tomatoes, today and all days ~ Sow Seeds & Sing Songs, & the whole Fruition Crew ..read more
Fruition Seeds Blog
5M ago
In our resilient, complex and ever changing world, nothing is black and white. Shades of gray become rainbows! As we welcome the extraordinary seed garlic of two beloved friends and phenomenal farmers, we’d love to share a little more about why and look forward to sharing their abundance with us all. Here at Fruition Seeds ..read more
Fruition Seeds Blog
6M ago
By Petra Page-Mann (inspired by ongoing conversations with Maddie Halpert & Matthew Goldfarb among many other curious humxns*) When people ask if Matthew and I have children, we say, “Oh, yes! And great-great-grandchildren! Who grow us more than we grow them.” Now in our 11th growing season as Fruition Seeds, we also ‘jest’ that we’re ..read more
Fruition Seeds Blog
6M ago
As Father’s Day approaches, we honor and celebrate the many roles fathers play in our gardens and in our world. There is no one way to be or become a father; the gifts and needs of fathers shift throughout their and our lives. We have all been shaped by these seasons and, like our gardens ..read more
Fruition Seeds Blog
7M ago
There are as many ways to garden as there are gardeners and no compost is quite the same, either. There are a thousand variables: original ingredients, overall size of your compost pile, temperatures and moisture levels it experiences and so many other factors allow teeming biological life to thrive…or not. Like snowflakes, no one cup ..read more
Fruition Seeds Blog
7M ago
May 5, 2023 Dear Fruition Family, It is with humbled, heavy hearts that we reach out to share hard news with you today. Emergent Viruses Around Us Plants are susceptible to viruses just like humans and we’ve just learned that an emerging disease, Tomato Brown Rugose Virus (ToBRFV), has infected the Brandywise tomato seeds we ..read more
Fruition Seeds Blog
9M ago
Friends, we have some news… You may have seen the note on Fruition’s dahlia pages that we’re offering a very limited stock of dahlias this year (2023) followed by a pause on sharing dahlia tubers in future years. While we are SO in love with dahlias, and we’ll continue to steward some of our favorite and unique varieties ..read more
Fruition Seeds Blog
10M ago
The fact of a seed. It’s nothing new and no less miraculous: All fall and across the long winter we’ve watched squirrels move acorns, munching as they go, new oaks soon sprouting from this dance and happenstance, millions of years unfurling. Since their earliest existence on planet Earth 400 million years ago, seed-bearing plants have ..read more
Fruition Seeds Blog
10M ago
In the spirit of nourishing community seed networks beyond commercial seed systems, here is just the beginning of an ever-evolving list of the seed swaps (primarily in the Northeast US and Canada) we’re aware of. A beautiful fact: This will never be a comprehensive list! If you’d love to add a seed swap to the ..read more