The first seeds I ever plants that made it to maturity! Hudson Valley Seeds Yay!

Even though I grew up off the grid and am handy with maple sugaring, birthing cows, milking goats, getting eggs from chickens, and foraging - plus a whle bunch of oher 1970s off the grid stuff - No seed I have ever planted grew to full adulthood.

When I saw the beautiful package for the Hudson Valley Seed Co's heirloom native sunflowers, I knew I had to try.  This is very exciting for me because it was a sacred gift to the land community I now live with.  I wanted to add to the biodiversity and bring someone home.  The deer ate half of them, but I did say it was an offering, so they got their part - and I hope their poop carries the seeds elsewhere!  There are about 7 more flowering, so tall, for the bees, bugs, and birds.  In my "spiritual" practice bioregional animism (I don't believe in the spiritual/material dualism so that term is wrong) the key focus is having good relationships with the land where I live.  Doing restorative and regenerative things like this are the key and I am soooooo happy it worked!  THANK YOU HUDSON VALLEY SEEDS!

I had bought a ton more of your seeds but I have fiibromyalgia so gardening is hard and am allergic to sunlight so gardening is very hard.  My idea was a container garden in the sunroom but it didn't work out.  The seeds are now in the capable hands of a friend in Vermont on SSI who feeds her three kids a lot from her community garden plot.  yay!