Native Seeds/SEARCH

For more than four decades, Native Seeds/SEARCH (NS/S) has stewarded the seeds of the desert Southwest and Mexico. Founded in 1983 in response to the concern of farmers, gardeners, Indigenous community members, and conservationists about the devastating loss of seed diversity, NS/S now conserves more than 1,800 regional seed varieties in a climate-controlled seed bank. The mission of NS/S is not just the preservation of seeds for the future, but also their distribution today, prioritizing communities of the desert region who have stewarded the seeds for time immemorial.