Rooted in the foothills. Run by a family who calls them home.
Rooted in Amador is a small family seed shop in California's gold country.
Our roots in these oak-studded hills run more than 30 years deep. When we welcomed our baby last year, we made Amador County our family's home, and putting down roots of our own in this soil is what inspired this shop.
We started Rooted in Amador for a simple reason: organic seed packets this size often cost $5 or more, and that's a steep barrier for families and growers who just want to grow real food. We sell every packet for $3.50, the same seed quality without the markup.
So much of what fills the American grocery aisle is sprayed, processed, and stripped of anything real. We think the simplest way back is a seed and a patch of dirt, and our hope is to make that first step easy enough that anyone can take it.
We aren't individually certified organic, so we can't legally use that word in our product names, but every variety we sell comes from a trusted organic supplier and is non-GMO. We pack each one by hand, right here in Amador.
A small act of resistance against industrial food.
Most of the food in American grocery stores is grown with synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. Many varieties are bred for shelf life and shipping, not flavor or nutrition. Genetically modified crops dominate the corn, soy, and produce supply.
Growing your own from non-GMO, organically sourced seeds is one of the most direct ways to take back control of what your family eats.
Our seeds are open-pollinated heirloom varieties wherever possible, the kind your great-grandparents would have planted. Save the seed at the end of the season, and grow it again next year. That's how gardens used to work, and that's how we think they should still work.
Plant something real. Eat what you grow. Pass the seed on.
Don't see what you're looking for?
Our inventory is small and growing. If there's a variety you want, send us a note. We'll do our best to source it.
We can't promise anything, but we'll try to make it happen.