This is a cut-n-paste from the Southern Exposure Seed site ( not the one Don and Bob claim to know about but have never visited..
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"Note to customers April 5, 2013: We’re pretty well recovered now from the power outage and subsequent warehouse fire on March 7th. We lost our supply of catalogs in the fire, but new catalogs have arrived from our printer and we’re now mailing catalogs again. We lost about 5% of our seed inventory in the fire; some varieties are now sold out until we can grow new seed crops for them again. (Possible good news is that, digging through the seed freezers lost in the fire, we’ve found intact seed containers on the bottom level of some of the freezers; we’ll be doing extensive germination testing to see if any of that seed survived after all!)"
Some of "our" seeds are not replaceable. A fire at the FTT seedbank would wipe out a lot of history. A few year back there was a big fire that wiped out a lot of Syrian Latakia. There were other warehouses that stored the Syrian. If ALL the Syrian was in that one warehouse- there would be none left at all.
The Seed Bank maintenance issue is one PIA. I do not want to maintain one. It is alot of work. My hats off to anyone that can maintain it.
My plan is to maintain my own mini-seed bank of about 20 or so varieties for myself, anyone that wants the seeds that I have are welcome to them.
)"Note to customers April 5, 2013: We’re pretty well recovered now from the power outage and subsequent warehouse fire on March 7th. We lost our supply of catalogs in the fire, but new catalogs have arrived from our printer and we’re now mailing catalogs again. We lost about 5% of our seed inventory in the fire; some varieties are now sold out until we can grow new seed crops for them again. (Possible good news is that, digging through the seed freezers lost in the fire, we’ve found intact seed containers on the bottom level of some of the freezers; we’ll be doing extensive germination testing to see if any of that seed survived after all!)"
Some of "our" seeds are not replaceable. A fire at the FTT seedbank would wipe out a lot of history. A few year back there was a big fire that wiped out a lot of Syrian Latakia. There were other warehouses that stored the Syrian. If ALL the Syrian was in that one warehouse- there would be none left at all.
The Seed Bank maintenance issue is one PIA. I do not want to maintain one. It is alot of work. My hats off to anyone that can maintain it.
My plan is to maintain my own mini-seed bank of about 20 or so varieties for myself, anyone that wants the seeds that I have are welcome to them.
