Jere's Annual Letter

Gettle Family portrait 2023 Ella, Malia, Jere, Emilee (holding baby Levi), Sasha, and Cyan in greenhouse

Dear Gardening Friends.

We are so excited to be bringing you our 27th catalog season! We believe we have introduced some of the most exciting new and old seeds yet for 2024! How about a truly purple, sugar-sweet tomato? Or some delicious, edible celosia? Or the plethora of new zinnia varieties?

I hope you enjoy looking through our colorful catalogs and website, and I want to thank our wonderful photographers for all their hard work documenting these varieties. The diversity in colors is amazing every day, and we hope to share the beautiful joy of gardening with you.

As the company grows and our team gains experience, we are able to find and bring you more and more new, old, and exciting rare seed varieties! There’s so much out there to still discover, grow, and taste! It is our goal to find the most colorful, flavorful, and healthy vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs! Not only do we seek out all the ancient heirlooms, we also are now working on our own breeding projects, developing the new heirlooms of the future. Working without patenting, genetic modification, or corporate control, all of the seeds we release through our program will be open source and free from control. We do this so that you can save your own seed, make your own selections, and have the freedom to control your food supply.

We love meeting gardeners and customers! I want to invite you to join us at our seed company and farm. Come and see what we are growing, eat at our restaurant, and learn more about our work. There’s always so many exciting things happening in our gardens and greenhouses.

We appreciate each and every one of our fellow gardeners and customers, and we thank you so much for your continued support so we can follow our passion and continue to grow and preserve our horticultural history.

Our family is doing well, and the kids are growing! We are excited to announce our new son, Levi Lee Roy Gettle, who was born in February of 2023. It’s always so much fun to watch kids find the excitement of nature and gardening.

I hope you enjoy this new catalog and that you and your family will have a wonderful year growing fresh and healthy produce!

God bless,

Jere, Emilee, Ella, Sasha, Malia, Cyan, and Levi Gettle