2025-2026 NARGS Seed Exchange Main Round Ordering
will begin Friday morning, December 19th,
just after midnight EST (UTC -5)!
The Current Seed List is now online for previewing ahead of the opening of orders.
Please read these instructions carefully before placing your seed order. Refer back to this page if you have any questions/problems, as most of them can be answered from this page or in the 'How to Order Online' and 'Visual Guide for Ordering Seed' pdfs.
Main round seeds are $20 (US dollars) for 35 packets for seed donors/volunteers, or 25 packets for non-seed donors. The Main round of ordering will END on January 24th, and the Surplus round will begin on March 1st.
Main Order fulfillment will be handled in January by the members of the Rocky Mountain Chapter (Denver, Colorado area). All seed donor/volunteer orders will be filled first. The Surplus Order fulfillment will be done by the Allegheny chapter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area) in March. We wish to thank them in advance for all their hard work, as well as acknowledge the many donors and packaging volunteers who also made this year’s Seed Exchange possible!
We have prepared a Visual Guide for Ordering Seed pdf for those who want to see all the steps involved in placing an online order, or a text guide How to Order Online, with complete instructions on placing your seed order. Details on how the seeds are listed can be found on the General Seed List Information page.
DOWNLOADABLE FILES
Click on 2025-2026 NARGS Seed List.pdf to view, print, and/or download the PDF file of the Seed List. ** Printing note: When printing out the PDF file of the Seed List, you may need to adjust your printer settings to “Fit to page” or “Shrink to fit”, as the files were originally formatted using an odd-sized page to produce the printed seed list as a booklet. Booklet printing can easily be done in the latest versions of Adobe Reader if you download the file to your computer first. If you select to print the list as a Booklet, it will use 5 sheets (double-sided); printing full-size pages is 10 sheets (double-sided).
Click on NARGS 2025-2026 Seed List.xlsx to download a spreadsheet version of the Seed List, with Google Search links on the Genus/species names. Warning - do not delete the hidden column F; it contains the seed names to which the search links are connected.
We also keep Past Seed Lists available on the website as PDF files for your convenience.
PAYMENT
Payment is by either Credit Card (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express), or Check or Money Order. Payment must be received before the order is placed in the queue for filling.
Postal regulations have recently changed. We are now being charged ‘Package/Parcel’ rates for all shipments, which means a big increase in our costs. US orders may cost up to $5.20, Canadian orders cost $17.85, and overseas orders cost between $19.30 and $22.60, depending on the country. Please consider adding a donation on the first checkout page to help us cover this added cost. Thank you for your continued support!
NEED HELP?
If you have any trouble with the ordering process, please do not hesitate to ask for help immediately by contacting Laura Serowicz using the Contact Us link – Category: Seed Exchange - to leave a message. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
Not sure what to do with your seeds once they arrive? Check out the Seed Exchange Helpful Links page for website and article links to Germination guides, as well as to Seed Collecting & Cleaning, and Seed Identification.
INTERNATIONAL ORDERS
Members within the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Australia: Phytosanitary certificates must accompany all shipments of seed entering any of these countries. NARGS will cover the Phyto cost for sending one shipment from the Main Distribution to each country if a member in that country volunteers to be the Consignee who receives the seeds and redistributes the orders to the other members in that country. Several members have offered to be the consignee for their country, so we should be set for this year.
Orders from these countries will be filled in their proper order (by date of arrival, Donors first, etc.) and then held until the closing of the Main Distribution. The Agriculture Inspector will inspect the seeds in early February and issue the phytosanitary certificates. After the seeds pass the inspection, they will be shipped to the Consignee for each country along with the phytosanitary certificate, with each order in its own mailer, so all the Consignee needs to do is apply postage and post them to the member. Seed orders will not reach members until late February. Moist packed seeds cannot be sent to these countries, so please do NOT select any moist packed seeds or any other seeds that are prohibited from entry into your country.
Due to the cost of the phytos and extra work involved in obtaining them, we regret that members residing in the EU, the UK, Japan, and Australia will NOT be able to place orders in the Surplus Distribution.
Members in Australia: The Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) policy is to return the whole shipment if even one packet is not allowed. Be sure to check the BICON website for the list of species you are allowed to import before placing a seed order. Do not select species that are not allowed into your country (which includes all Allium spp) and list many second choices to ensure you receive your allotted number of packets. We will only send seeds of the species you select (no substitutes) to avoid the whole shipment being rejected and returned to us or destroyed. Since we are sending all the orders for Australia in one shipment with a Phytosanitary certificate, this will affect all the other orders in the shipment.
Members in New Zealand: Be sure to check the MPI Plants Biosecurity Index for the list of species you are allowed to import before placing a seed order. Do not select species that are not allowed into your country, and list many second choices to ensure you receive your allotted number of packets. We will only send seeds of the species you select (no substitutes), so list plenty of second choices.
SURPLUS SEED
Many seeds are still available at the close of the Main Seed Distribution. If you would like to participate in the Surplus Seed Distribution in March, mark the checkbox on the order form to either receive an email reminder or receive the printed list by mail. Ordering runs from March 1st to March 15th. The list of seeds available in the Surplus round will be on the website a few days before the opening of ordering. Seeds. Surplus Seeds are $12 per 20 seed packets, 100 packets maximum.
