TomatoFest Heirloom Tomato Seed Donations

TomatoFest® Seed Donations Program

Tomato Seeds For Those In Need - Every Seed a Possibility™

Since 1998 TomatoFest Garden Seeds has been donating heirloom tomato seeds to urban garden projects, school gardens, community outreach gardens around the U.S., India, Africa, Europe, China, and anywhere else an interest or need has been brought to our attention to enhance the quality and nourishment of life:

as a vital part of organic gardening educational programs for gardeners of all ages.
to grow tomato seedlings or fresh tomatoes to sell as a fundraiser.
as a means to supplement the education and feeding of school children, or families and communities in need of nutritious food.

Click here to request TomatoFest® Tomato Seed Donations

Why We Share Our Tomato Seeds:

For many years I've been collecting heirloom tomato seeds from gardeners, family farms and other seed collectors around the world... tomato varieties that have been valued for their flavor and other desirable characteristics.

I have been entrusted with these tomato seeds to grow them out in our seed trials, harvest and share them with others, so they would be appreciated and sustained. Dagma and I hand select and harvest all of our certified organic tomato seeds and maintain our certified organic, tomato 'seed bank' to assure that these tomato varieties will be sustained.

Seeds are the beginning of the food chain. And maintaining a seed consciousness, nourished through the sharing of open-pollinated seeds, is a fundamental prerequisite for seed autonomy and food security. We believe through our support of the development of home and community gardens and organic sustainable agriculture, we will offset the erosion of biodiversity and malnutrition. Every Seed A Possibility™.

It is our intention to assist small farmers and rural communities to regain control of their own seed through the creation of their own seed gardens, and develop their own community seed banks. We are currently active in supporting numerous urban, school and community gardens world-wide with seed donations in their effort to support bio-diversity, ensure that heirloom tomato varieties will be preserved, and to feed those in need.

We are pleased to assist the efforts of a limited number of qualified charitable organizations, community and school garden projects in need of heirloom tomato seeds for planting. However, we reserve the right to decline requests, since we are limited to the amount of requests we are able to satisfy based upon the extent of our seed inventory and our ability to cover the costs of our seed donations.

TomatoFest Seed Donations Program Participants (partial list)

2 Sisters Garden - Louisburg, MO
4th East Garden, Salt Lake City, Utah
7 Trees School, San Jose, CA
Aaron Raines Memorial Garden, Cincinnati, OH
Accident Historical and Cultural Society – Accident, MD
Agnes Wagner McKie Memorial Garden, Cincinnati, OH
Albion Gardens, Cincinnati, OH
Alisal Community School - Salinas, CA
American Institute of Wine & Food, "Days of Taste"
Austinberg Gateway Garden, Cincinnati, OH
Bali Organic Project – Bali, Indonesia
Beverly Bootstraps Community Garden – Beverly, MA
Big brothers Big Sisters of Johnson County, Iowa City, IA
Borger Independent School District, Borger, TX
Braymer Challenged Youth Group, Braymer, MO
Byron Center Charter School, Byron, MI
Carmel Middle School, Habitat For Humanity Garden, Carmel, CA
Carmel River Shool garden, Carmel, CA
Center for Chemical Addictions Treatment Garden, Cincinnati, OH
CHANGATHARA HANDICAPPED MISSION – Westfield, MA
Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati, OH Community Gardens of Tucson, AZ
Coppell Community Garden – Coppell, TX
Creekside Elementary - Salinas, CA
Damar Educational Services – Indianapolis,IN
Dater Montessori School Garden, Cincinnati, OH
Descanso Harvest Garden - La Canada Flintridge, CA
Desert Marigold School Garden – Phoenix, AZ
Dr. Oscar Loya Elementary - Salinas, CA
East End Veterans' Memorial Garden, Cincinnati, OH
Fairpark Garden, Salt Lake City, Utah
Foundation of California State University, Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA
Fremont Elementary - Salinas, CA
Frank Paul Elementary - Salinas, CA
Green Mt. Community Outreach Headstart Program– Lakewood, CO
Hanley Farm, Southern Oregon Historical Society, Jacksonville, OR
Hemingford High School – Hemingford, NE
Holloway Hope Garden, Cincinnati, OH
Howard County Health Coalition, Nashville, AR
Impact ECO Garden, Cincinnati, OH
International School Monterey (ISM) Seaside, CA
John Steinbeck Elementary - Salinas, CA
Julie Hanser Community Garden, Cincinnati, OH
Kammann Elementary - Salinas, CA
Kernville Union School District, Kernville, CA
Kids growing Foods, Cornell University, Ithica, NY
"LACES" High School Community Garden – Los Angeles, CA
Lansberry Elementary School – Trinity, TX
Madisonville Community Garden, Cincinnati, OH
Magnet Elementary School Urban Farming – Los Angeles, CA
Marmelade Garden, Salt Lake City, Utah
Marsing Community Garden – Marsing, ID
Martin Luther King Jr. Academy - Salinas, CA
McIntosh College Culinary Education Garden, Dover, NH
Milwaukee Urban Gardens – Milwaukee, WI
Mitchell Elementary School- Canyon Country, CA
Mission Union - Soledad, CA
Mixed Greens Community Outreach School Garden - Grand Rapids, MI
Monterey County Farm to School Project, Monterey County, CA
Norm's Childrens' Farm, Lowel, IN
O'Hara Mill Homestead Gardens- Madoc, Ontario, Canada
Olson Elementary - Marina, CA
Pangea Institute Organic Educational Community Garden- Boulder, CO
Pendleton Children's Garden, Cincinnati, OH
"Plant-a-Row for the Hungry" Memphis Food Bank- Memphis, TN
Polk County Master Gardeners, Des Moines, IA
Race St. Children's Garden, Cincinnati, OH
Red Butte, Garden, University of Utah
Redwood Day School, Oakland, CA
Research and Community Garden, Tracy Unified School District, Tracy, CA
Rock Forge Neighborhood House – Morgantown, WV
Siloam Springs Middle School, Siloam Springs, AR
Special Education Dept., Grant Union High School, John Day, OR
St. Croix Montessori, Stillwater, MN
Sterling Living Center Community Outreach – Sterling, CO
The Chefs Garden-Culinary Vegetable Institute, Huron, OH
Thiru Valagum Farm, Tamil Nadu, India
TomatoFest Community Gardens, Walnut Hills Community Garden, Cincinnati, OH
TomatoFest - Project Rawanda - Rawanda, Africa
Valley View ELementary School – Phoenix, AZ
Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary - Salinas, CA
Wasatch Community Gardens, Salt Lake City, Utah
West End Community Garden, Cincinnati, OH
Winton Place Community Garden, Cincinnati, OH

...and many more gardens in United States, Canada, China, Africa and India.

Request for TomatoFest® Tomato Seed Donations:

If you are involved in a school, community outreach program that could benefit from our tomato seed donation program, please submit our Tomato Seed Donation Request Form below. We will review your request and upon approval send along your tomato seeds as soon as possible We request that all recipients of TomatoFest tomato seeds keep us updated with the progress and results of your garden projects by sending us letters, articles, and especially photos of your gardens and gardeners. We will be highlighting a number of projects to share your success with others on our website.