Seed Station is an Australian owned an operated business operating from Hilton in Western Australia.
The business’s roots go back to 2010 when I started a seedling business selling through Farmers Markets, IGA Supermarkets and local stores. Responding to customer requests I started to supply seeds alongside my seedlings until 2022 when I started to focus solely on seed supply.
Stocking my own range of plants for seed production, I am assisted by a collection of seed savers and fellow seed enthusiasts. With regards to the seeds I purchase, I aim to source locally or within WA. My many years of growing seedlings has given me a good insight into quality seed growers.
Starting with just a handful of varieties of vegetable seed, my range has grown to include herb, flower and native seeds. I sell online seeds to thousands of Australian home gardeners and cater to a few commercial growers.
The main reason I focus on heirloom and open pollinated seed, is so that my customers can save their own seeds to plant, swap or store for future use. This makes growing your own food supply more affordable and saves our seed heritage for future generations.
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I can always be found doing something in the garden. I love all things plants!
Accreditation
Seed Station is a member of the Nursery & Garden Industry Western Australia. This is the peak industry body representing commercial growers, retailers and suppliers in WA since 1939. NGIWA is committed to providing professional and technical leadership through education, support and representation to advance the growth and profitability of its members.
Our Mission
‘Leaf’ everything better than how we found it.
Greek Proverb: “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
I practice this philosophy of improving today for the future both in my life and business, and aim to leave things better than when discovered. This can be as simple as supporting environmental lobbying to taking care to recycle properly.
My growing methods are organic following a permaculture style of gardening. I make my own compost from kitchen and garden scraps and keep a bubbling worm farm. And, if I do have any scraps to spare, my local council gathers them to make compost for our public spaces.
I respect all the insects in my gardens and try and balance my need for food with theirs. Insects make the world a much better place and they have well and truly earned their space. With modern day farming techniques, the home garden has become the saviour of the insect world.
I recycle and re-purpose everything: even my Labrador’s old bones end up in pots as chocks. My seeds are packaged in paper envelopes and all components of the seed packaging are recyclable and are locally sourced. No plastic is used at all and orders are mailed out in totally compostable materials.
What is a seed
Seeds are the primary method of propagation in most plant families. The seed life cycle starts with the flower and ends with a seedling. Seeds vary greatly in their size: compare the football sized seeds of a coconut palm to the minute, pin head seeds of a poppy to appreciate the differences.
There are also different methods of dispersal and germination. Some seeds are so light, that they easily travel on the breeze, some attach themselves to animals or humans, who then transport them over large distances and then there are the seeds that can pass thought the digestive system of birds, and emerge with a coating of fertliser, ready to go forth and multiply.
The seed life cycle can vary from just a few days of viability to up to 2,000 years. No matter the size or life span, a seed contains all the information necessary to produce a new plant. It is about as perfect a situation as nature has devised.
Growing from seed is fun and rewarding as well as being very cost effective. You can access a much broader variety of plants than those that are generally available seedlings in nurseries. Commercial growers simply cannot afford to produce small runs of a wide range of plants and instead concentrate of the mass production of popular options.
So, if you want to grow heritage plants or rare and unusual varieties, you need to grow from seed.
If you want to read more on heirloom seeds check out my blog post:
Heirloom Seeds: An Introductory Guide For Seed Enthusiasts
Open Pollinated Seed
Open pollination means the plants are naturally fertilised by bees, moths, bats, birds and even the wind or rain.
Heirloom Seed
The definition of an heirloom seed is a seed that has been grown and passed down over many generations. The saved seed will produce the same plant.
Since agriculture began, people have been choosing the qualities they like in a plant and saving those seeds to grow year after year. This plant selection and can only be done with open pollinated seed.