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Consider Partnering With Us in Our Historical Research and Seed Variety
Preservation Work!
Do you like what we do? Do you want to
know how you can partner in our seed preservation work? Here are a few ideas how you can help
make a difference.
Background
and Purpose:
If you are reading this page, you probably are already one of our many loyal
supporters and are aware of our mission
of seed variety preservation.
The primary method of
supporting our preservation work comes directly from you purchasing
and growing seeds from our website or
mail
order catalog. For that, we are greatful. However, if you are
in a position to help beyond that and feel inclined to send something extra,
you can do so
at this link.
Another way to
help financially is an idea that a long-time supporter of ours thought up.
Every year when she orders the seeds for her garden, instead of buying seeds
to share, she purchases
gift certificates! She says, "Gift
certificates are a good gift and a great way to introduce
[Victory Seeds®]
to your gardening friends." We couldn't agree more.
Other Forms of
Support:
Obviously
financial support is critical to the health of any organization, but there
are so many other ways you can help that do not cost you anything but some
time and energy. Some opportunities will even earn you purchasing credit
at our store!
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Help By
Promoting Our Work - Become An Unofficial Victory Seeds®
Ambassador!
As a small
organization with a limited budget, we spend very little of our resources on
conventional advertising. We rely on your word-of-mouth recommendations.
Here are some ideas that are only limited by your imagination.
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Take a minute
and write a review on
The Green Pages at the "All Things Plants" website
and at
The
Garden Watchdog at "Dave's Garden."
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Share about us with
your gardening family and friends.
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Forward our
newsletter emails to your gardening
family and friends.
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When you are on a product page and it make you
think of someone you might also appreciate the item, click on the
Email A Friend
button. There are also social media buttons on the pages that you can
click on to share with your networks of friends.
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If you use
Twitter,
please Tweet about us (@VictorySeeds), follow our feed, retweet, etc.
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If you are on
Facebook,
"like" our fanpage, participate in the conversations, and please,
share and forward our posts to your page and followers.
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Likewise, if you
have a Google or
YouTube
account, please consider subscribing to the new VictorySeeds
YouTube
Channel.
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Get us in your
favorite gardening magazine or local newspaper. If the opportunity
arises, let them know your favorite seed company. Even when we are
listed as a seed source for a gardening article, it helps. You can
forward your local garden writers to our "Virtual Press Package" which can
be found at this web address:
http://www.vintageveggies.com/press_package.html
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Use Your
Imagination!
We were contacted by a customer of ours on Long Island, New York asking if
we would be interested in him spreading the word about us at his local seed
swap event . . . you can guess what we said! I created a coupon that he
could hand out to folks, and using extra seed that he had purchased, this is
what he told us he did to help spread the word:
1) I made a photocopy of your seed packets and after crossing out the amount
of seeds on the front, stapled it to the baggies of seeds and included the
coupon to each and every bag I put out on the display table.
2) I also handed out full sheets of the coupons to people who had family and
friends who might be interested in Victory Seeds®.
3) I was interviewed by the local newspaper and told them that the seeds I
brought were specifically from victoryseeds.com.
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Help By
Making Our Site Better - As a customer driven organization, our website
has continually evolved through your suggestions and comments. We made
a huge change in January of 2011 by adding customer interactivity.
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Rate A Variety - If
you grew our seeds,
you can make the site more useful to everyone by sharing your experience.
Just revisit the variety's product page and look for the following link [
Review this item].
Your positive review may help others in your location find a great variety
for their garden. You can even earn 25
Victory Points™ for each review that is approved!*
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Send
Us Photographs - Browsing around the site and see that a variety is
missing a picture? You can help. If you grew the variety, take
the picture yourself, and we end up using it on the site, you will
earn 500
Victory Points™ for each picture we publish.*
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Feedback - As always, keep your
comments and suggestions coming. It is with your input that our site
thrives and grows.
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Seed
Preservation
- The core of our mission.
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Garden With
Heirlooms
- First and foremost to supporting our preservation work happens when you
choose to garden with
open-pollinated
seed varieties.
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Seed Saving - Become a seed saver.
Although this might sound like a self-defeating practice for a seed company
to encourage, we hope that it cements the fact that we are
mission driven and
not fiscally motivated!
Seed Saving is key to ensuring that a variety survives. Learn
and practice proper techniques. Along with you personally preserving a
variety, you also are saving money and at the same time, practicing a
primary freedom - the ability to raise food without relying on any person or
company.
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Submit
Family
Heirlooms
- This is also a core to our seed variety preservation work. Along
with keeping other
open-pollinated
seeds available to home gardeners, we also work with families to ensure that
beloved favorites are not lost to time. Over the years, we have been
contacted by people with seed varieties that their ancestors have grown for
may generations but they might be to the point where there is no one left
the keep growing the seed. This is where we try and help.
If you
do have seeds of an
open-pollinated variety that you would like to see
preserved, please contact us. We are always
looking for old varieties that we do not presently have in our seed bank
program.
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Donate
old books and seed catalogs - You
can actively help, both the
Victory Horticultural
Library as well as the seed variety preservation work of the
Victory Seed Company, by donating those old horticulture related books,
bulletins, magazines and of course, seed catalogs! We have a very limited
budget for acquisitions so donations are greatly appreciated.
We value
the relationships that we have built over the years and we greatly
appreciate the support that we receive from all of our gardening friends.
We honestly could not continue to do our part helping to preserve
biodiversity without folks like you!
Thank
you for your support!

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