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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 public hours, Wednesday-Saturday 10am - 4:00pm. Please call ahead (812-855-6224) or email libwylie@iu.edu.
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
Native Seed Communities (a project of Indiana Native Plant Society), seed@indiananativeplants.org
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 (IUCAT record), Suzanne Ashworth, Seed Saver Publications 1991, ISBN 0-9613977-7-2
Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings (IUCAT record), 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 (IUCAT record), Cary Fowler & Pat Mooney, University of Arizona Press 1990, ISBN 0-8165-1181-0
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