Seed Savers Exchange: Lillian Goldman Visitor Center — Local services in Decorah

They are awesome with shipping and the website is great, but I have had mixed results with the seed. My Cherokee Purple tomatoes were amazing...best I have ever grown. But the golden zucchini produced nothing. I had other heirloom yellow squash and green zucchini that produced well this year. So far only one golden zucchini from 6 plants. The plants are beautiful, but no fruit. Same with the tomatillos. Beautiful plants, lovely shells where the fruit should be, but just pea sized fruit. Also not happy with the early fortune cucumbers. They tasted great, but produced about 1/3 of normal heirlooms. I will be going back to my old suplier next year for...

Tomato Tasting September 1st, 2018 It was my first visit to Seed Savers for the Tomato Tasting and it was wonderfully fun. The volunteers @ Seed Savers really do a nice job, from parking to execution of the lines and crowd control was really well done. Not to mention the fabulous tomatoes. The farm is organized and clean (a real showplace), the tomatos tasted wonderful and the gift shop is very nice. Bought some seeds for next year. I recommend the tomato tasting to anyone who has any interest in the tasting, cultivating and husbandry...

Attempted to place an order online but the system didn’t recognize the shipping address and there were no delivery options. I attempted to use the same format as it was listed on their catalog sent to me with no avail. I sent an online inquiry to seek a resolution, after 5 days and no response I attempted to call. The was on hold for 40+ minutes before I disconnected. Not sure what to think, this is my first time using this organization, hopefully it’s not the norm. I’ll hope for an email response otherwise I’ll go...