#trueloveseeds

Grateful for 1 bean survivor of flooding rains, Borlotto Lingua do Fuoco - Tongue of Fire bean! #roofgardens #growsomething #plantsofinstagram Ty #trueloveseeds (at Tribeca) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ9AcD3rePse3vlHiejU_XQxcnNqJNvnd1xFjM0/?utm_medium=tumblr

Got #bean seeds ready for my roof garden experiment!Will add pigeon peas this year! Stay tuned for the greens too! Thankyou #trueloveseeds #growyourown #eatplants (at New York City, N.Y.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM5c2RXh_czRgfjzgWo5awsVND2OPy8JboVn1M0/?igshid=116hbp3bc8fh8

A big shout out to Julia Aguilar!! Every week in addition to spending a day working on the farm, they date, label, and fill almost 700 seed packets at their house so I can attempt to keep up with your orders from my house! This week we are aiming for twice as many packets since supplies are getting so low. Since mid-March, Julia has hand-filled nearly every single one of our packets! Measuring spoon in hand, emoji jokes at the ready, with the determined spirit and heart of a seed sovereignty believer and doer, they are truly amazing and wonderful. Thanks @cryptogam_ !!!! (In this photo they are filling Palestinian Molokhia packets). Photo by @milesziskind #seedkeeping #trueloveseeds https://www.instagram.com/p/CBwYpJfAFLM/?igshid=1vtxhlm7sgqbb

Thank you so much to all of you who have been visiting www.trueloveseeds.com, reading our seed stories, and picking out varieties that sound perfect for your gardens and farms and kitchens and forkfuls. It is amazing to us that we are able to spend our days shipping our beloved seeds to excited growers! And what’s more, that the growers who saved these seeds get to benefit by telling their own seed stories, preserving their own ancestral and regional seeds, and receiving 50% of the income from your seed orders. Your support keeps this whole thing going, and we encourage you to join us by saving your own seeds as well! Let’s keep our foodways alive and well. Thank you so much! Shown here: Buena Mulata Pepper; White Velvet Okra; Ají Amarillo; Huacatay; Callaloo; Landis Winter Lettuce; Francois Syrian Molokhia; White Garden Egg; Paul Robeson Tomato; Frijol Rojo de Seda. #trueloveseeds #seedkeeping #seedsaving https://www.instagram.com/p/B8pEns5A5wV/?igshid=1x82lk6pvt8xu

Happy Valentine’s Day to my ancestors! These photos are of Letitia Truelove and her granddaughter - my grandma Letty - in the 1920s. Grandma Letty, who I adored and continue to adore, was an an amazing cook and baker and lover of plants and rocks and oceans. She was named after her grandma and so is Truelove Seeds. That's why Truelove is one word. I wanted to pick a family name because so much of our focus is on continuing to keep our ancestral seeds, stories, and traditions. I considered these other family names: Vigilante, Lauriello, Grindrod, Lenihan, Walsh, but Truelove was too good to pass up! Besides, keeping seeds is an act of TRUE LOVE for our ancestors and our collective future. Letitia Cecilia Truelove was the youngest in a large family and was sent away to be raised by nuns. In turn, she raised a powerful woman, who raised a powerful woman, who raised a powerful woman, who raised me and my sister. Grateful for the care that our ancestors and living relatives take to help us survive and thrive in this beautiful and tumultuous world. I hope to take the same care in caring for my loved ones, my seeds, my community, and this seed company! #trueloveseeds #letitiatruelove https://www.instagram.com/p/B8kTKd7getN/?igshid=15shqdcrtxv9x

Listen now! Seeds & Their People is a radio show where people we admire tell stories about the seeds they truly love. Our first episode is up on our website! Chris and I tell our own seed stories so you can get to know us a little before we launch into our interviews and conversations with others, such as Kristyn Leach from @namu_farm and Ira Wallace of @southernexposureseed. So excited for this medium that allows us to hear seed stories woven in the voices of their keepers. Look for the bar at the top of www.trueloveseeds.com to listen! Soon, you can listen on all your favorite podcast apps. Thanks!#seedsandtheirpeople #seedkeeping #seedstories #seedsaving @trueloveseeds @sankofacommunityfarm #trueloveseeds https://www.instagram.com/p/B6-nZXIAj6V/?igshid=llzxdfhyq93b

Our 2020 Seed Keeping calendar is ready for you! Full of bright pictures of culturally important plants and their seed stories and printed on thick paper by local printers @fireballprints. Consider supporting our seed keeping work at Truelove Seeds by purchasing gifts for yourselves and the ones you love. This is our fifth annual calendar, and we are so excited to share it with the world. www.trueloveseeds.com #seedkeeping #seedsovereignty #foodsovereignty #seedsaving #trueloveseeds (at Everywhere) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5DV8X6g_5c/?igshid=45gzq0mrbpmy

All Power to the People! Seed sovereignty starts by deepening our intimate relationships with the plants that feed and heal us. It starts when we begin to understand their lives from seed to shining seed. Our workshop yesterday at East New York Farms in Brooklyn was very hands on, with lots of people just beginning their journey with seed keeping, and many who are already deep in it. I love this farm, their community, and the larger food justice and community garden world of New York City in general - so networked and supportive, so passionate about the soil and the people. While I’m here in NYC I’m able to see the culturally important seed crops this farm grows for our catalog, and visit two Bronx farms that plan to begin selling seeds through Truelove this coming year as well. Thanks @enyfarms!! Last four 📸 by @ethnobotanyprojectnyc #seedkeeping #seedsaving #seedsovereignty #trueloveseeds #eastnewyorkfarms (at East New York Farms!) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Jow4qAeUi/?igshid=1uigriwoz5kng