K works with our artists to help them share the stories of our seeds. He keeps the seed company true to its original mission protecting seeds, increasing seed diversity, fostering an ethical seed landscape, and celebrating the art of seed.

Favorite Art Pack: Heart Seed. Being a seed saver is about being in a relationship with plants. All seeds love us back, but this one knows how to show it!

Ted's season begins and ends with seeds: planting, cultivating, harvesting, and processing the fruits and flowers we offer at Four Fold Farm.

Favorite Art Pack: Multi-hued Yarrow. To Ted, yarrow represents resilience and the strength of community.

Seedy Secret: Ted is currently working on a novel that adapts Homer's Odyssey to a strange and wild post-apocalypse.

Brendan works in our retail store keeping the fine art of customer service alive one guest experience at a time.

Favorite Art Pack: Dino Kale. Kale is healthy and hardy and the artwork reminds him of his dog Frankie.

Seedy Secret: Brendan likes to pickle things.

Steven manages all aspects of our organic seed farm.

Favorite Art Pack: Sacred Basil. He appreciates the beautiful mandalic symmetry of the pack and the adaptogenic quality of the plant.

Seedy Secret: He is just as superstitious as he is rational.

Temperance writes blog posts, sends newsletters, and hunts down typos. 

Favorite Art Pack: Moonflower. She loves how the woman has climbed a ladder to see the moon and how the moon illuminates the hidden nocturnal animals among the flowers.

Seedy Secret: Temperance can be found haunting antique stores and staring deeply into other people's discarded family photos. 

Rebecca works on the farm growing our plants into seeds!

Favorite Art Pack: She has decided that her favorite art pack (for now) is Strawflower.

Seedy Secret: Rebecca doesn't like rice.

Sandi takes pride in making each Art Pack (that opens like a flower) as beautiful as the art and seeds within.

Favorite Art Pack: Sugar Magnolia Snap Pea. It’s got everything delightful, it’s got everything you need.

Seedy Secret: She has a tiny house surrounded by open-pollinated, non-GMO, Hudson Valley Seed Company flowers both she and the wildlife enjoy.

Patrick spends his days getting all of our great seeds out to gardeners so they can be planted as soon as possible.

Favorite Art Pack: Matchbox Pepper. He has a big jar of dried matchbox peppers in his kitchen that he uses almost every day.

Seedy Secret: Patrick likes to experiment with all kinds of food preservation, from drying to salting and fermenting.

This guy fills our packs with seeds (and a little love). He is also our self-proclaimed resident Mr. Fixit.

Favorite Art Pack: Spider Flower. The artist's use of deep blue and indigo hues elicit a calming effect.

Seedy Secret: He is an exceptional cook!

Julia helps lead and support the farm team's efforts, from planting and tending seedlings in the greenhouse, to transplanting and cultivating crops, all the way through to the harvest.

Favorite Art Pack: Mexican Sour Gerkin. She's a sucker for cute things and these sweet rodents enjoying veggies are right up her alley! 

Seedy Secret: Hailing from New Mexico, via Massachusetts, Julia is a desert girl at heart.

Adriana is a part of our production team, packing seeds and helping to prepare art packs and other products.

Favorite Art Pack: Sacred Basil (Tulsi). This art pack is Adriana's favorite in style and symbolic content. For her, "Tulsi is the Sacred Feminine in Her pure essence. Tulsi holds a wisdom in her energetics of being energizing without stimulating. The art pack depicts Tulsi with elephants permeated by roots as this wisdom in steadiness, the Third Eye in the center as meditative practice and the medial nature, and these beaming rays along the Third Eye as that diffusive energy that is part of her medicine."

Seedy Secret: The secret is out! The intuitive sciences are a big part of Adriana's life and she has rich practices in dreamwork, astrology, and is a lover of writing poetry. She enjoys cultivating a simple, fertile life here in rural lands with her sights set on a small forested homestead.

Catherine manages our sales and marketing team and helps the company tell seed stories in compelling and original ways.

Favorite Art Pack: Ping Tung Eggplant. She loves the synchronistic story behind this art pack , the way food brings people together, and grilling eggplant in the summertime. 

Seedy Secret: Catherine has hiked most of the trails in Yosemite National Park.

Jen manages all art print production and inventory, manages the original art archive, and assists with calls for art and new art-related product development.

Favorite Art Pack: Mache. It provides fresh greens when she craves them most—at the very beginning and the very end of the growing season. She loves how this subtle, layered artwork makes mache look larger than life.

Seedy Secret: Jen loves to procrastinate by baking.

Crimson coordinates wholesale orders and provides phone support to both wholesale and retail customers.

Favorite Art Pack: Johnny Jump-up. The imagery and back story of this art pack resonate deeply. She thinks of her own child saving seeds and planting them around the garden and sees the magic of a seed growing through a child's eyes.

Seedy Secret: Crimson is a garden lover, avid cross-stitcher and hockey fan. A perfect combination!

Mary works to help things run smoothly whenever it relates to data. From setting up new products, to making sure the "recipes" for each pack have the right amount of seeds, to monitoring inventory on the website--Mary gets to interact with the products through all different stages of their journey! 

Favorite Art Pack: Mandurang Moon With fond memories of picking tomatoes off the vine in her mother's garden and hurriedly eating them before the school bus arrived, paired with her love for all things related to the stars and moon, this pack is the perfect combination of beautiful and nostalgic!

Seedy Secret: Currently Mary maintains a collection of 200+ uncommon and rare tropical houseplants in her one bedroom apartment, and she dreams of having a solarium one day to fill to the brim with even more!

In the shop and on the web, Sarah offers seedy support and answers to your ordering questions.

Favorite Art Pack: Kaleidoscope Carrots. Rainbow is my favorite color, and carrots have always been a balancing force in my life.

Seedy Secret:  I love to sew and I'm a morning person.

Claire works at FFF and HVSC planting, cultivating, harvesting, and packing seeds.

Favorite Art Pack: Ruby Moon Hyacinth Bean, "because the pack and the plants entrance both me and the hummingbirds so utterly!"

Seedy Secret: Claire is also a puppeteer!

Kenny is part of our farm crew and helps harvest and process seed.

Favorite Art Pack: Black Futsu. They were the first seeds he sowed at the start of his farming life.

Seedy Secret: He likes Japanese stand-up comedy.

Jake ferries all the seeds, tiny and great, to their seed pack homes in ship shape, so they can sail merrily to you!

Favorite Art Pack:  Goth Art Pack for its celebration of music soaked in eye liner, hair, and feelings. 

Seedy Secret: October Halloween movie marathons to ward off scary spirits!

Fennel nestles things along their journey.

Favorite Art Pack: Pansy Mix is an extension of a larger amazing activist art project that deserves a wider audience. thepansyproject.com

Seedy Secret: Fennel has performed on stages across the country including Off Broadway and Lincoln Center.

Tiffany does a little bit of everything from shipping out orders to various production tasks. She's always happy to learn new things and jump in where needed.

Favorite Art Pack: Tiffany loves tea, and Sacred Basil is one of her favorites. It has so many amazing benefits for your mind and body.

Seedy Secret: Tiffany has taught elementary art for several years and has a small collection of children's skeleton drawings that is one of her most prized possessions.

Cara receives all your seedy orders and makes sure they are sent to you safe and sound.

Favorite Art Pack: Pansy Mix. Cara loves this pack for the obvious reason that these flowers are playful and gorgeous, but equally important, she loves it for its social justice message.

Seedy Secret: When Cara Sue is not at HVSC she hosts a weekly LGBTQ social night called Pansy Club here in the Hudson Valley.

Isabel develops and implements strategies across our teams to support our growth and efficiency goals.

Favorite Art Pack: Honeynut Squash. This seed pack has it all - the sweetest squash imaginable, a beautiful woodblock print and an intriguing seed story taking us back to the mastodons!

Seedy Secret: Isabel has never sung karaoke and may or may not want to keep it that way....

Lauren experiments with new seed varieties and products to improve and expand what we offer to customers.

Favorite Art Pack: Watercress.

Seedy Secret: Lauren's favorite dahlia variety is Ivanetti.

Keith works with our suppliers, including our farm, to ensure that everything we offer in our catalog is available for sale.

Favorite Art Pack: Wild Arugula. Not to jump someone else's train but the colors in the artwork remind him of a record he used to listen to in high school.

Seedy Secret: He’s terrible with names.

Katie is part of our farm crew that grows and process our own organic open pollinated seeds.

Favorite Art Pack: Shanghai Baby Bok Choy. Baby Bok Choy has been her favorite vegetable since childhood, and she loves the babies reaching out to grab it.

Seedy Secret: Katie has seen every episode of Star Trek. Live long and prosper!