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“They might be brand new but they know what to do” and Friends, THaNK YoU!
10 Easy Seeds to Direct Sow in April with Pisa! Community Q & Q
10 Easy Seeds to Sow in May
10 Steps for Planting a Fruit Tree
2 Easy Ways to Boost Your Garlic Harvest this June (and beyond!)
2018 Fruition’s Fresh Ginger Harvest & Tasting Party
3 Keys to Great Carrot Germination
3 Keys to Maximizing Your Leaves This Fall
3 Things to do with your Winter Squash Seeds
4 Easy Ways to Harvest More This Fall
5 Easy Strategies to Thwart Your Gray Squash Bugs
5 Keys for Great Germination
5 Keys to Establishing an Organic Apple Orchard & 5 Common Mistakes to Avoid
5 Keys to Preventing Tomato Disease (there is no silver bullet, but #1 is close)
5 Tips for Gorgeous Transplants
5 Tips for Growing Great Beans
5 Ways to Make the Most of Your Compost
6 Core Questions for Orchard Planning
6 Easy Seeds to Direct Sow in June (& How to Transplant, If You Must)
6 Seeds to Sow in Early April
7 Essentials of Seed Starting: an Infographic
7 Mistakes to Avoid When Planting Garlic & Shallots
7 Seeds to Resist Transplanting & Direct Sow Instead!
7 Steps for Gorgeous Tomato, Pepper & Eggplant Seedlings Plus Common Mistakes to Avoid
7 Steps for Growing Your Own Microgreens
7 Steps for Growing Your Own Microgreens (webinar)
7 Steps to Transplant Tomatoes Perfectly (#2 May Surprise You)
7 Strategies to Prevent Flea Beetle Damage
8 Easy Steps to Lifting & Storing Dahlia Tubers
8 Seeds to Direct Sow in the Cold
9 Questions When Sourcing Seed (and what to really ask about GMOs)
A Beet Story: Plant-person companionship through research, recovery, and reimagining
A Brief History of North Star Dahlia
A Favorite Moment of Tree Weekend
A Merry December Medley + Carol on Your Doorstep
A Prayer for December
A Tale of Two Tomatoes (Hand-Pollination & Hybrids, oh My!)
A Tiny Taste of the New & Returning Organic Seeds for 2023!
A Year in the Dahlia Life
Adaptive Garden Planning
America the Beautiful | An Homage to the First Presidential Debate 2020
And Then We Sang: We All Need A Fruit
And Then We Sang: We Shall Be Known
Another (Brilliant!) Way to Know When to Harvest Garlic
Apple Growing Resources We Love
Apple Q & Q: Disease Resistance, Deliciousness & Choosing Varieties
Apple Q & Q: Finding the Right Place for Your Apple Trees
Apple Q & Q: First Season Summer Keys Plus Insects & Disease to Scout For
Apple Q & Q: Organic Approaches to Apple Pests, Diseases & Sprays
Apple Q & Q: Planting Trees in Spring!
Apple Q & Q: Signs of a Healthy Tree in Year 1
Apple Q & Q: Staking, Trellising & Pruning
Apple Q&Q: Healthy Trees in Yr 1 + Spring Planting Planning in late Summer
Apples & Organic Orcharding
Ashwagandha, Bioregional Herbalism Series
Behind the Scenes: Sharing Fruition’s Organic Ginger
Behind the Scenes: Sharing Organic Dahlia Tubers at Fruition
Boneset, Bioregional Herbalism Series
Bring Fruition’s Gift of Seeds to Your Community!
Buffalo Food Justice Advocates Call For End to White Supremacy
Cabbage Re-Imagined: Remembering Our Food, Re-Imagining Ourselves
Calendula, Bioregional Herbalism Series
Caring for Bare Root Trees Upon Arrival
Celebrating Fathers in Gardens & Beyond
Celebrating Juneteenth in our Gardens & Beyond
Community Q & Q: Spongy Moths, Apple Borers & Apple Rootstock Sprouts
Companion Planting
Companion Plants for the Orchard
Composting with Confidence Mini-Course
Container Gardening Mini-Course
Cultivating Curiosity & Cultures of Care: Breeding Turnips Beyond Eugenics
Desiccant Packets To Store Your Seeds Better
Digger Deeper Into Transformation: Is Fruition Going Out of Business?
Easy Flowers to Sow Four Weeks Before Final Frost
EFT & Fruition’s Transformation
Egg Cartons are for Eggs (So Here are Six Effective Containers for Seed Starting)
Fall Sown Seeds to Savor Through Spring
Find a Seed Swap Near You!
Fire Cider Live Demo & Parsley: Bioregional Herbalism 2021
Fire Cider: Bioregional Herbalism 2020
Fish Emulsion Demystified + Fruition’s Fact Sheet for You!
Free U-Pick Daffodils for Generations to Come!
Fruit Tree Care in Fall
Fruition in Country Gardens Magazine
Fruition Trees: What are Plant Patents?
Fruition’s 10th Anniversary Reflections
Fruition’s Annual Wassail Celebration!
Fruition’s End & New Beginning: The gift of embracing change together and trusting abundance shared
Fruition’s Favorite Garlic Scape Recipes, Harvest Tips & Invitation!
Fruition’s Guide to Companion Planting
Fruition’s Guide to Preparing for First Frost
​F​ruition’s Joy & Solidarity Suppers 
Fruition’s Living the Questions Gathering
Fruition’s Many Fruit & Nut Growing Resources: Start Here!
Fruition’s Microgreens Time Lapse!
Fruition’s New Varieties for 2020
Fruition’s Transformation FAQs
Fruition’s Transplants for 2025
Fruition’s Virtual Farm Tour 2020!
Fruition’s Guide to Garden Planning
Garden Q & Q: Caring for Garlic and Shallots in Spring
Garden Q & Q: Let’s Sow Onions
Garden Q & Q: Let’s Sow Tomatoes, Peppers & Eggplant
Garden Q & Q: Let’s Sow Ginger & Turmeric
Garden Q & Q: Tomato Brown Rugose Virus
Garden Q & Q: 7 Keys for Seed Starting & Common Mistakes to Avoid
Garden Q & Q: Honeybees & Bee-ing in Community
Garlic & Shallots for Fall Planting
Garlic as Medicine: Bioregional Herbalism Series
Gift of Seed Gatherings: Join Us!
Grieving, Giving Thanks & An Unlikely Source of Hope
Grow Carrots with Confidence
Grow Your Own Ginger
Grow Your Own Ginger & Turmeric!
Grow Your Own Saffron!
Growers of Fruition Seeds: Meet Marie-Claude Comeau!
Growing Garlic & Shallots Organically
Growing Gratitude Beyond Market Economy: How to thank Fruition & keep the gift moving
Growing Great Garlic Organically
Growing Great Tomatoes
Growing Library
Growing Peanuts, Growing Ourselves: Our Article in Edible Finger Lakes
Growing Perennial Wildflowers from Seed
Growing Tomatoes, Growing Ourselves
Halloween Carols for All!
Happy Coming to Fruition Day
Harbinger of Harbingers: Sowing Allium Seeds for Spring
Heirloom, Hybrid, GMO: Fruition’s Glossary of Essential Vocab Demystified + a Story
How I Fell in Love With Claytonia
How Long Do Seeds Last? Best Practices & A Story
How Long Do Seeds Last? Fruition’s Secrets to Storing Seeds
How to Choose the Right Apple Varieties for You
How to Grow Microgreens at Home
How to Grow Peanuts in Short Seasons
How to Harvest & Save Sunflower Seeds: It’s Deceptively Easy
How to Harvest Milkweed Seeds
How to Host Your Own Seed Swap (& Grow So Much More Than Gardens)
How to Know When a Melon is Ripe
How to Know When to Sow Seeds in Spring
How to Not Break Mini Soil Blockers!
How to Pull vs Snap Scrumptious Garlic Scapes!
How to Ripen Green Tomatoes
Human Rights Violations in the FLX: #halftownmustgo (& What You Can Do)
I’m Growing: Microgreens & Poetry for Mid-Winter
Ideal Varieties for Container Gardening & Raised Beds
Identifying (& Life After) Powdery Mildew & Downy Mildew
Identifying & Managing Tomato Disease Organically
In Solidarity with Rootwork Herbals
In Which Petra Learns the Accordion (with Turnips) for New Years!
Inheriting Genetic Resilience in Tomatoes & Ourselves
Introducing Dulcinea (or, Don’t Judge a Carrot by the Cover)
Join Us for an Evening with Kathy Lea!
Let’s Make Fire Cider!
Lung Tonic: Cough Syrup with Elecampane, Marshmallow & Ginger
Lung Tonic: Elecampane, Marshmallow & Ginger Cough Syrup
Make Your Own Fermented Veggies!
Make Your Own Hot Sauce!
Making (& Throwing!) Seed Balls
Marshmallow, Bioregional Herbalism Series
Meet the Crew: Heron!
Meet the Growers of Fruition’s Seed!
Microgreens Made Easy Micro-Course
Mmmmmm! 5 Keys to Eating Greens Before Memorial Day
Murals are Coming to Fruition!
Murals at Fruition: From Rochester with Love | Chloe Smith
Murals at Fruition: Receding, Re-Seeding | Kaitlyn Cronin
My Favorite Tomatoes & Starting from Seed
New & Returning Varieties for 2022!
New Fruition Seeds Packaging + Happy April 1st!
On Garlic, Resilient Communities & Organic Certification
On Life, Death and Colorado Potato Beetles
Organic Approaches to Spongy Moths in the Orchard & Garden
Our Favorite Beneficial Insect: Have You Heard of the Lacewing?
Our Favorite Edible Flowers
Podcasts We’re On (& Podcasts We Love)!
Preparing in Summer & Fall for Spring Fruit Tree Planting
Questions As Winter Solstice Draws Near
Questions Seeding More Fruitful Futures
Re-Imagining Receiving Seeds from Fruition
Regionally Adapted Seed: The Secret of Great Gardening
Rochester’s Annual Seed & Plant Share Events !
Rootstocks & The Anatomy of a Grafted Apple Tree
Saving Our Seeds, Saving Ourselves
Saving Our Seeds, Saving Ourselves
Saving Tomato Seed in Seven Easy Steps
Savoring & Saving Pumpkin Seeds
Secret (& Unexpected) Signs of a Ripe Tomato
Secrets to Establishing Poppies
Secrets to Storing Garlic
See(d) the Change: All You Can Eat Watermelon Party & Community Seed Selection
See(d)ing the Change: ‘V.1’ Explained & An Invitation to Delectable, Adaptable Diversity!
Seeds of 2024: Fruition’s New Community Kitchen & Kinship Space
Seeds of Sabbatical: Seasons Changing
Seeds to Direct Sow in March
Seeds to Sow in September
Simple & Successful Succession Sowing
Six Steps to Grow Your Own Ginger & Turmeric
Skullcap, Bioregional Herbalism Series
Sneak Peek: New Varieties for 2019!
Soil Blocking & Mistakes to Avoid with Amanda! Community Q & Q
Soil Blocking in 5 Easy Steps
Soil Testing for Trees & Orchards
Soil Testing Made Simple
Sowing & Growing Series: Basil, Zinnias & Tender Annuals
Sowing & Growing Series: Beans
Sowing & Growing Series: Beets
Sowing & Growing Series: Broccoli
Sowing & Growing Series: Carrots
Sowing & Growing Series: Cucumber
Sowing & Growing Series: Ginger
Sowing & Growing Series: Onions & Leeks
Sowing & Growing Series: Peas
Sowing & Growing Series: Peppers!
Sowing & Growing Series: Perennials
Sowing & Growing Series: Potatoes
Sowing & Growing Series: Potting Up, Hardening Off & Transplanting Out
Sowing & Growing Series: Spinach & 10 Easy Greens to Direct Sow in the Cold
Sowing & Growing Series: Squash
Sowing & Growing Series: Tomatoes
Sowing Autumn Abundance in August
Sowing Autumn Abundance in August
Sowing New Worlds: Seeds Beyond SKUs
Sowing Onions! with Jenn Ward Community Q & Q
Sowing Tomatoes! With Sonya Harris | Community Q & Q
Starting Flowers & Herbs from Seed with Tabitha! Community Q & Q
Starting Seeds with Ease
Stories of Fruition’s Transformation: Naming & Thanking Fears for Their Gifts
Stories of Fruition’s Transformation: Petra Saving Seeds in Her Father’s Garden
Successful Succession Sowing in July
Summertime
Sunflowers (& Why I Have Hope for the World)
Tasting the Next Generation of Dulcinea Carrot
Thank You, Friends: A Note of Appreciation Amid Transition
Thank You, Friends! On Fruition’s Final Day of Shipping
The Art, Community (& Cabbage) that Seeds Sow
The Dirt on Grief: How to Thaw Your Own Heart
The Dreaded Squash Vine Borer & How to Still Enjoy Zucchini All Season Long
The Gift Isn’t Free
The Good News (& Bad) About Cucumber Beetles (Plus 4 Keys to Thwart Them)
The Secret to Digging Dahlias Before Frost
The Serviceberry: Reading, Reflecting & Growing the Gift
The Thankful Truths Woven Within True Magenta Swiss Chard
The Truth About Praying Mantis (May Surprise You)
Timing Is Everything: Fruition’s Seed Starting Charts & Calendar
Tomato Brown Rugose Virus: Humbling News & How We Move Forward
Tomatoes: Who to Prune & How to Trellis
Trailing Arbutus Blooms in the Cold (& So Shall We)
Tree FAQ: Common Questions about Apples
Tree FAQ: Much Ado About Shipping & Arrival!
Tree Q & Q: 2023 Trees! Delicious Disease Resistance for Short Seasons
Tree Q & Q: Early Season Tree Care
Tree Q & Q: This Buds For You! Understanding Fruiting & Leaf Buds
Tree Q & Q: Tree Shipping 2023, What To Do Upon Arrival!
Tree Q & Q: Winter Dormant Tree Pruning Basics for Young Trees
Trees FAQ: Much Ado About Bare Root vs Potted Trees
Trunk Protectors: Little Actions that Make a Huge Difference
Trusting Our Gifts, The Gift Returns ~ with seven haikus
Want Fewer Mosquitoes in Your Garden?
Wassail! A Brief History, Recipe & Invitation
We Are All Plant Breeders Now
We Never Thought We’d Do This (& Check Out Our New Packets!)
What We Just Learned About Final Frost (& Happy Memorial Day)!
What We’re Harvesting in January & How You Can, Too!
What Would You Name This Sunflower, Friends?
What’s a Gift? Reflections from my Father’s Garden
When Fruition’s Seeds Are Ready to Share for Seasons Ahead
When to Harvest & How to Cure Winter Squash
When to Harvest Garlic
When to Plant What? Timing is Everything.
Where to Sample Apples on the Farm & Beyond
Why Thanksgiving Kale is My Favorite
Why We Love Sunflowers (& Slowing Down)
Within & Without Market: In Praise of Plurality

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