The New York Times wrote:
"Founded in 1852, Petaluma has a pretty downtown lined with Victorian-era iron-front buildings. It’s anchored by the glorious 1920s Sonoma County Bank building with huge arched windows and 30-foot hammered-metal ceilings, now home to the Petaluma Seed Bank and Baker Heirloom Seed Company."
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Petaluma, north of San Francisco is indeed a lovely town, and visiting the Seed Bank is a MUST for every gardener! At least for those who do not want to grow and eat "Monsanto Products" - as everything the Heirloom Seed Bank offers is pure, natural, and non-GMO!
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If you are in the Bay area, Sonoma or Napa Valley, make yourself the pleasure to stock up the ingredients for healthy garden products, with flavor and taste you might remember from your granny's garden harvests.
You will find lots of books, Honey, garden tools, and everything a gardeners heart might desire, beside more than thousand heirloom seeds. Here are some photo impressions to "wet your appetite".
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Petaluma Seed Bank
199 Petaluma Blvd. North
Petaluma, CA 94952
Phone (707) 773-1336
If you are wondering what a Seed Bank is - these heirloom seeds are sold in a former bank in Petaluma - but that's just a fantastic name and a coincidence that a bank resided once in the same building where this store is now located.
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According to Wikipedia: A seed bank (also seedbank or seeds bank) stores seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere are destroyed. It is a type of gene bank. The seeds stored may be food crops, or those of rare species to protect biodiversity. The reasons for storing seeds may be varied. In the case of food crops, many useful plants that were developed over centuries are now no longer used for commercial agricultural production and are becoming rare. Storing seeds also guards against catastrophic events like natural disasters, outbreaks of disease, or war.
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Read also: How to Save Seeds by Modern Farmer and a photo article by the LA Times about the Seed Bank in Petaluma.
Read also: How to Save Seeds by Modern Farmer and a photo article by the LA Times about the Seed Bank in Petaluma.
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