Bibliography for Heirloom Gardeners and Seed Savers
Listed below are a few of our favorite sources for seed and reference materials. All catalogs and books are available
for your use at Wylie House. These materials do not circulate, but we invite you to use them here at the museum during
office hours, Monday-Friday 7:30am - 3:30pm and Saturday 10:00am - 2:00pm. Please call ahead (812-855-6224) to be sure
someone will be here when you come.
- Organizations
- Flower and Herb Exchange, 3076 North Winn Road, Decorah, Iowa 52101 -- Membership
$10/year -- annual Yearbook with listings of flowers and herbs for exchange. Phone: 563-382-5990
- Heritage Seed Program, RR3 Uxbridge, Ontario L9P 1R3, CANADA -- US membership $18/year
-- magazine 3 times a year and a complete listing of seed offerings each December
- Seed Exchangers, PO Box 10, Burnips, MI 49314-0010 -- Membership $7.50/year -- 12 monthly
issues
- Seed Savers Exchange, 3076 North Winn Road, Decorah, Iowa 52101-- Membership $30/year --
3 large pubiications: summer and harvest editions with informative articles, and the spring Seed. Phone:
563-382-5990
- Savers Yearbook listing seeds available from gardeners nationwide and abroad
- Heirloom Seeds
- Wylie House Seed, Wylie House Museum, 317 E. Second Street, Bloomington, IN 47401. (812) 855-6224.
- Seed Savers Exchange, 3076 N. Winn Rd., Decorah, IA 52101
- Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, 2278 Baker Creek Rd., Mansfield, MO 65704
- The Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants, P.O. Box 316, Charlottesville, VA 22902-0316
- Landis Valley Heirloom Seed Co., Landis Valley Museum, 2451 Kissel Hill Road, Lancaster, PA 17601
(717) 569-0401
Old Sturbridge Village Museum, One Old Sturbridge Village Rd., Sturbridge, MA 01566
- Books
- Seed Sowing and Saving, Carole B. Turner, Storey Communications Inc. 1998, ISBN 0-8027-04497-2
- Seed to Seed, Suzanne Ashworth, Seed Saver Publications 1991, ISBN 0-9613977-7-2
- Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings, Rudy and Joy Favretti, American Association for State and
Local History, 1978, Revised Edition 1991, ISBN 0-7619-8930-7
- Heirloom Vegetable Gardening, William Woys Weaver, Henry Hold & Company, Inc. 1997, ISBN 0-8050-4025-0
- Shattering Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity, Cary Fowler & Pat Mooney, University of
Arizona Press 1990, ISBN 0-8165-1181-0
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