2025 Season Planning in Progress
Each garden starter package consists of 10 unopened random seed packets. One garden starter seed package per name. One garden starter seed package per address.
Please let us know if you have small children. We have a VERY limited amount of small books related to gardening that we would really love to give away!
We continue to use the honor system, so please be honest. You do NOT have to qualify for assistance to be considered low income. Many families struggle even though they are above the standard "low income" threshhold to qualify for assistance.
This outreach is for low income families/individuals who want to grow their own healthy food and help stretch their grocery dollars.
Again, please be honest, please be kind and please be patient.
We do not have a mailing list. We do not have an application process. You simply email a request to outreach@iheartseeds.com, or send us a request by mail to:
i heart seeds
PO Box 685
Hastings, PA 16646
If you requested seeds in previous growing seasons and are still low income, please contact us again. We only limit individuals/families to one package per season.
PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR MAILING ADDRESS so we know where to send your seeds! We continue to receive SEVERAL requests without addresses. We are unable to ship those requests!
For those of you who received seeds from us in the past, we hope that your gardens were a huge success and that you enjoyed your homegrown healthy food!
Please continue to check back for updated seed distribution information for planting season 2025!
Happy growing from all of us at i heart seeds!
Renee's Garden
Renee's Garden sent us THE LARGEST donation we have EVER received! The largest box of fruits and vegetables weighed in at 23lbs! The flowers weighed in around 15lbs! We are blown away by your kindess and very generous support of our cause to help low income individuals have access to healthy food sources! Words cannot express how much we appreciate you!
Baker Creek Heirloom
We would like to thank Baker Creek Heirloom - Rare Heirloom Seeds for their VERY generous donation to our cause! Again, without generous donations from seed companies, like yourselves, we would not be able to help individuals in our community have access to growing their own healthy food!
Sow Right Seeds
Thank you Sow Right Seeds for your kind contribution! Your generosity leaves us speachless!
True Leaf Market
True Leaf Market, has made a second contribution to i heart seeds! Thank you True Leaf Market for your kindness and generosity!
How Do I Get Seeds?
To receive seeds all you have to do is ask and provide us with your mailing address. You can email us or contact us by snail mail. The information is on our Contact Us page. If we have garden seed packages left we will mail you one.
We cannot stress enough that our outreach is currently based on the honor system. We trust if you need help gaining access to healthy food and you ask us for seeds, you will use the seeds we send to plant a garden and grow food for yourself and possibly others as well (friends, family, neighbors).
Are Your seeds REALLY Free?
Yes! Our seeds are completely FREE to low income families and individuals who ask for them!
The seeds we distribute are generously donated by various seed companies or our volunteers.
Seeds are usually from the prior growing season(s). Stored properly seeds can be viable for many years! Many of our volunteers harvest seeds from their own gardens and are kind enough to donate them to our cause.
We do not ask for donations from anyone who asks for seeds. Not even for shipping! i heart seeds, Incorporated NEVER asks for cash donations from anyone! We feel this keeps our volunteeers honest. We ask for donations of seeds and time to bundle and mail them. If you are EVER asked for a donation from anyone saying they are (or represent) i heart seeds, Incorporated, please contact us immediately at outreach@iheartseeds.com and let us know so we can take appropriate measures to investigate and stop scammers!
What is Low Income?
Here at i heart seeds, we know that many families and individuals do not qualify for "low income" status or assistance. Some don't qualify because they are a few dollars over the stipulated threshhold and there are other reasons that make an individual or family ineligible for "low income" assistance even though they may be struggling.
We currently do not have an application process at i heart seeds. Our criteria is simple, if you receive assistance (of any kind), you are low income. If you are unable to afford healthy food because it is cheaper to stock your cupboards with cheap processed foods, you are low income. If you find your cupboards are nearly bare and it's slim pickin's before your next check arrives, you are low income.
We work on the honor system and trust that people who submit a request genuinely need help gaining access to healthy food.
Please don't think there are others more needy and use that as a reason to not ask us for seeds. We have a lot of seeds to distribute and we wish to make sure we don't have any leftovers at the end of the growing season!
It's no secret. The price of everything is going up and food stamps only go so far. It's cheaper to buy processed foods than it is to buy healthy foods. That's a shame.
Come here for gardening tips as well as how to's for harvesting various types of seeds. Harvesting seeds and seed trading not only help stretch your food dollars and increase your healthy food supply but it also helps ensure you have seeds for next years garden so you can plan ahead.
