Seed Grower Application Form - Victory Seed Company

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Untreated, organically grown or certified organic open-pollinated & heirloom seeds

Seed Grower - These experienced seed savers and small farmers are the backbone of the seed preservation process. Growers volunteer, or are sometimes contracted with, to multiply out seeds that are then offered to gardeners through the Victory Seed Web site and mail-order catalog. Sales of seed is the primary mechanism for securing operating capital. Commercial availability is the true measure of a variety's survival.

Requirements:

You must reside in the U.S.
You possess an interest in supporting and furthering our seed preservation work.
You must have the necessary knowledge and take the required steps to preserve the genetic integrity of the particular varieties you are working with.
You should understand the steps necessary to nurture a crop for seed, optimal harvest points, and post harvest cleaning procedures. This includes the steps necessary for readying the seed for distribution such as cleaning, grading, and basic germination testing.

About the Program - Similar to trial gardening, you will be asked to keep growing and harvest yield notes, take pictures of the mature plants and produce, offer evaluations from the kitchen and submit the information for our records. The intent of this data is to verify that the integrity of the variety is intact.

As implied in the requirements section, you must have adequate space to isolate, or practice caging and / or hand pollination. Rouging off-types is desired but selection is not performed as and effort to "improve" or otherwise change the variety. Instead, selections are made to maintain the original characteristics as described in historical documentation.

Additionally you will be striving to produce a high quality finished product. That is clean, healthy, viable, true-to-type seed.

Why Volunteer? - By participating you will be part of something bigger than any one person, one company or one organization. You will be helping to keep old varieties available to other gardeners. As part of our growers network, you will be part of our extended community of people working to preserve important plant varieties. You will have access to interesting varieties and to other people with similar interests.

Application to Become A Victory Seed Grower

Please note that this information will be treated with our standard privacy policy and not shared with third parties.

Your e-mail address

Subject Line

Your Contact Information

Your Full Name

Street
City , State Zip

Phone Number Fax Number

Do you produce seed for distribution through your own business, through other organizations, or for other companies? Yes No
If yes, please describe in the below.

Please tell us a bit about yourself

1. I am an Experienced Intermediate seed saver and I have raised seed for about years.

2. My primary growing season is:

Spring/Summer Fall/Winter

3. I grow these crops during the Spring/Summer

4. I start plants inside about (date) to transplant outside later.

5. I direct sow outside about (date) for the Spring/Summer season.

6. The crops I grow during the Fall/Winter are:

7. I plant for my Fall/Winter season starting about (date).

8. Please select your climate zone on the following chart.

S = last Spring frost date
F = first Fall frost

Victory Zone	Sub-zone
Zone A S-June 10 F-Aug 20	High Altitude, Severe Winters
Zone B S-May 20 F-Sept 20	Northwest Cold Southwest Cold Central Northeast
Zone C S-Apr 20 F-Oct 10	West Coast Dry South Humid South East Coast
Zone D S-Mar 20 F-Oct 30	Maritime Northwest Dry, Hot, CA & AZ South
Zone E S-Feb 20 F-Nov 20	Coastal CA Semi-tropical South Arizona
Zone F S-Jan 30 F-Dec 20	Tropical

Other Zone. (My climate does not fit any of the above categories.)

My spring and fall frost dates, growing season length, and a brief description of my climate:

9. I have square feet (or acres) in cultivation every year.

10. I primarily protect a variety's genetic integrity with isolation, caging, or hand pollination.

11. Use the following area to describe the plants that you are most interested in working with or varieties that you are already maintaining and have available.

Describe your seed saving, farming, and gardening experience, horticultural classes you may have taken, or any other comments or information that you would like to share with us.

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