Kent Whealy Memorial Seed Collection

Pictured above: Doug Gosling, Mother Garden Biodiversity Program Director, in the OAEC seed vault with the new Kent Whealy dedication plaque.  It is our great pleasure to announce the dedication and naming of the OAEC seed collection after seed preservation visionary and mentor, Kent Whealy.  Kent Whealy recognized in the 1970’s that the collapse of […]

OAEC Nursery joins Fibershed

The OAEC Nursery is a new member of Fibershed, a consortium of growers, ranchers, artisans, and retailers working to create a culturally, socially, economically and ecologically viable local textile industry.  Fibershed encourages the revival of local fiber systems through research, education and expanding markets for regenerative textile manufacturing from soil-to-soil. The OAEC Nursery is helping […]

Last Summer Plant Sale Weekend

Saturday and Sunday are the last two days of the Summer Plant Sale until our Plant Sales resume for our Fall Plant Sale! We still have an incredibly wide array of beautiful heirloom varieties of 100% California Certified Organic seedlings for your summer garden: dozens of varieties of tomatoes hot and sweet peppers eggplants cucumbers summer and winter […]

It’s Spring! What To Be Planting Now

Annuals Gardeners — the days are getting longer and warmer, so we know you’ve got the itch to start playing in your garden beds! There are many crops that you can start planting now. At our Spring Plant Sale (first 2 weekends in April), we will have hundreds of 100% Organic seedlings of the following annuals: Brassicas such […]