Blue Ridge Seed Savers Seed trading post · Lexington, KY Request seeds
Lexington, Kentucky · Member seed library

Fill your bag
from the bins.

See what is in stock and request packets as a member. Open bins, brass scoops, kraft bags — take what you will grow, and bring back what you save.

Browse the bins Request packets

What’ll it be today — tomatoes or wildflowers?

Open wooden seed bins with brass scoops and kraft paper bags on a light counter
Bin 03 · Kentucky Wonder
In stock now

Sorted by variety, scooped by the spoonful.

Every bin on the counter is labeled with its number and what is inside. Read down the ledger, pick your favorites, and write them on a ticket.

Close view down a row of wooden seed bins filled with different seeds and dried seed heads
Bin 02 — wildflower seed and dried heads.
01

Heirloom tomatoes

Brandywine · Cherokee Purple · San Marzano · Yellow Pear

In stock
02

Wildflowers

Purple Coneflower · Black-Eyed Susan · Cosmos · Partridge Pea

In stock
03

Beans & peas

Kentucky Wonder · Provider Bush · Sugar Snap

In stock
04

Squash & melons

Butternut · Delicata · Sugar Baby watermelon

In stock
05

Greens

Lacinato kale · Rainbow chard · Arugula · Spinach

In stock
06

Herbs

Genovese basil · Dill · Cilantro · Borage

In stock
07

Peppers

Jimmy Nardello · Hungarian Wax · Cayenne

Scoop a few
08

Cutting flowers

Zinnia · Marigold · Sunflower

In stock

Bins are restocked as members bring seed back. If one looks low, ask at the counter — there is usually more in the back.

Order ticket

Scoop, label, and send it to the counter.

Members can request packets from any bin. Write down what you would like and we will set it aside with your name on the bag.

  1. 1

    Read the bins

    Every variety in stock is listed by bin number in the ledger above.

  2. 2

    Fill in the ticket

    Name, email, and the varieties you are after. Bin numbers help us find things fast.

  3. 3

    We bag it up

    A member writes your name on a kraft bag and tucks the packets behind the counter.

Not a member yet? Ask at the counter and we will get you set up.

Blue Ridge Seed Savers Seed request Member ticket

Requests are handled by members at the counter.

Back room

Germination workshops at the back table.

We open pods, line seeds up on damp paper, and talk through what actually sprouts in a Kentucky spring. Bring your questions and a pencil — the table is usually covered in both.

  • Reading a seed packet without the jargon
  • Testing germination on damp paper
  • Saving seed from your best plants
  • Starting heirloom tomatoes indoors
Starts, too.

Heirloom tomato starts come off the back table each spring, potted up from seed saved from our own bins.

Ask about a workshop
Hands sorting dried bean pods and seeds onto paper at a worktable
Sorting dried pods at the back table.
Shelf goods

Supplies for saving your own.

Everything you need to dry, sort, and store seed through the winter — kept on the shelf beside the counter, next to the scoops.

  • Glass storage jars Quart & pint
  • Kraft seed envelopes Blank, for labeling
  • Fine sorting screens For cleaning chaff
  • Twine & paper labels For bundles
  • Brass scoops The good kind
  • Stackable drying racks For seed heads
Wooden shelf holding glass jars of seed, paper envelopes, a small sieve and twine
Jars, envelopes and sieves on the shelf.
Low wooden crate packed with small pots of tomato seedlings, paper seed packets and hand tools
School garden kits

Kits for classrooms and after-school plots.

Packed into a low crate: heirloom tomato starts, a set of packets, and the odds and ends a school bed needs to get going. Ask at the counter and we will put one together for you.

Request a kit
The exchange

Take a packet. Bring back what you grow.

The bins stay full because members return what they save — a few dry pods, a jar of beans, seed from the best tomato on the vine. That is the whole trade.

Request seed packets Browse the bins

Return bin

At the counter · All season

Dry pods and seed headsPaper bag
A jar of dry beans or peasLabeled
Seed from your best tomatoDried

Write the variety and the year on it.