Seed Donations

November 1, 2025

We love providing seed donations to Seed Libraries!

We are thankful for organizations and groups that are helping their community through seed libraries and other seed sharing opportunities. Every year we donate lots of seeds to seed libraries, non-profits and community gardens over the years.

Do you know of a non-profit seed library in your city that needs seeds?
Have them contact us at support@sandiaseed.com for seeds.
We typically do our seed donations in September thru November each year.

We love sharing the love of growing peppers and vegetables with Seed Libraries!

We love seed libraries and community gardens!!

Sandia Seed often provides seed donations to seed libraries, community gardens, non-profits and fundraisers each fall. If your organization is looking for seed donations, reach out to us in the autumn months and we can see what we can do! We've donated to many seed libraries, fundraisers, community gardens and more over the years – and we're happy to share seeds with communities all over the United States. We also offer Bulk Seeds and Wholesale Seeds for purchase if you want seeds sooner and want to stock up.

In 2025, we are proud to be donating to the following organizations:

Friends of the Oak Park Conservatory (FOPCON)
Finkelstein Memorial Library
Ridgway Public Library
University of Detroit Mercy McNichols Campus Library
Hammonds 3-1 Community Library
Saddle Brook Free Public Library
Labelle Gardening Seed Library
North Spokane Library
Cheney Library
Hinsdale Public Library
Gardeners of Central Lake County
Family Day Care
Lil’ Peoples Daycare
PV Community Seed Library Attn
Pataskala Public Library
Purdue Extension - Tipton County Seed Library**
The Secret Garden
Forbush Elementary
c/o Allison Rozsa Evans
Programming Librarian Adair County Public Library
Bethpage Public Library
Custer County Library/Mile High Garden Club
Charlton Public Library
Franklin Steam Magnet Elementary School
Cook Memorial Public Library District
Taos Land Trust
Multiflora Garden Club
Plattsmouth Garden Club
Greater Casa Grande Master Gardeners
Five Points Community Garden
San Juan River Homestead
Goochland-Powhatan Master Gardeners Association
Crete Public Library
Southbridge Area Garden Clu
Children's Program
Sustainable Agriculture Program at Liberty High School

** Here's a nice thank you post from Purdue Extension-Tipton County for our 2025 Seed Donation to their Seed Library:

Seed Donations: 🌶️ Thank You, Sandia Seed Company ! 🌶️ We’re excited to share that our Seed Library has received a generous donation of pepper seeds from Sandia Seed Company! If you love peppers—sweet, hot, or somewhere in between—you’ll definitely want to stop by and check out the new additions. These free seeds are available while supplies last, so come browse, pick your favorites, and get inspired for next season’s garden! 🌱 Happy planting! 🌱

Nice post note from Purdue Extension-Tipton County:

Thank You, Sandia Seed Company!

We’re excited to share that our Seed Library has received a generous donation of pepper seeds from Sandia Seed Company!

If you love peppers—sweet, hot, or somewhere in between—you’ll definitely want to stop by and check out the new additions. These free seeds are available while supplies last, so come browse, pick your favorites, and get inspired for next season’s garden! Happy planting!

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In 2024 we donated to the following organizations:

Sow and Grow Mobile Greenhouse in Columbia, SC
T.L. Weston Middle School in Greenville, MS
The Smithtown Library in NY
Urban Harvest in Houston, TX
Ridgway Public Library in CO
Food For Lane County in Eugene, OR
Wyandanch Public Library in NY
Cook Park Library in Libertyville, IL
Angela's Little Seed Library in Monticello, IL
Bean Blossom Pollinator Project in Morgantown, IN
Gardeners of Central Lake County in Libertyville, IL
Denver Urban Gardens
Our Garden in Old Lake Highlands in Dallas, TX
White Rock United Methodist Church in Dallas, TX
Liberty High School in Hillsboro, OR
Sow and Grow Program - Lubbock County Libraries in TX
Northland Arboretum in Brainerd, MN
Saint Louis Seeding Frenzy in MO
Meridian Co-Op Gardeners in ID
Yennadon Elementary in Maple Ridge, BC
Little Elm Public Library in TX
Parrottsville Community Library in TN

Reach out to us in September-November each year to inquire for us to donate seeds for your community needs, contact us »

Happy growing!

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Very Productive and HOT!!

I'm going to grow these every year, they are HOT!! They make great poppers and salsa. Very productive, easy to grow, quick germination and fast growing plants. Thank you for the stellar seeds.

Samuel

10/17/2025

Jalapeño Orange Spice NuMex Seeds - Ultra-Hot and Flavorful

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

I planted several cultivars from wholesale seed. These were prolific. See all that RED (and green)?!? Looking forward to harvesting in a few days. Thank You Sandia Seed!

Josh F

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Jalapeño M

I pretty much use Sandia seeds exclusively! A few years ago I just happened to order your Jalapeño M. To me it's the perfect Jalapeño! Really nice size! Perfect heat for what we like! Wonderful flavor with a meatyness that's perfect for many different uses! I make my own Sriracha so I wait for them to turn red. They're one of my base peppers for my sauce! I praise them to all my personal friends and to members of groups that I belong to!

Bill Kozma, Solvang, Ca.

10/15/2025

Jalapeño M Pepper Seeds - Popular Heirloom with Flavorful Heat

Prolific pepper

Plants each produced dozens of beautiful peppers. Still going strong in October in Virginia

Mari Woehrle

10/13/2025

Big Jim Legacy Pepper Seeds - Flavor & Heat - A True New Mexico Chile

High producers

Serrano Hidalgo Seeds fromSandia Seed produce even in the HOT drought of central Illinois this year! I love adding a little Mexican kick to my salsa but also tossing these on the grill! They have great flavor and produce all summer long!

Angela McCabe

10/10/2025

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Quintessence of pepper flavor. Productive plant. Definitely will grow again.

M J Dubois

10/08/2025

Española Improved NuMex Chile Seeds - Robust Flavor and Early Maturity

Dynamite xx Hot peppers, 4 heat lovers only!

I had looked high & low, and searched the web with many word combinations ‘looking’ specifically for my favorite chili, the Dynamite xx Hot… so I could grow my own. The peppers were sold in Colorado at select places during roasting season, but you couldn’t buy seeds for them… anywhere!
Finally, as luck and persistence would have it, I discovered Sandia Seed Company.
Thank you Sandia! I planted them and had a great crop this year. I plan on growing them every year as well as trying some of their other seeds,

Linda O

10/06/2025

Dynamite Green Chile Seeds - Extra Hot Variety at 12,000 Scoville

Prolific Peppers!

There's just something fun about growing a jalapeno that is light enough in color that some people think it's a banana pepper. LOL! I picked these just for color variety, and I'm very pleased that my plants have been loaded with them all season! We donated about 50 lbs of mixed peppers this year from our garden and I still had enough to freeze some and can more jars of recipes than we'll probably be able to use before next season. All my peppers were from Sandia Seed Company. I've never had such great pepper production before using these seeds!!

Cmartcookie

Jalapeño Jaloro Pepper Seeds - Disease Resistant and Medium Heat

Big Jims

Excellent peppers, large and meaty. Easy to grow from your seeds.

S Latta

10/04/2025

Tasty and prolific

This spinach germinated well, and produced way more spinach than I'd initially expected. It grew really well, was slow to bolt in the summer, and has a really nice mild flavor for salads or steamed.

Melissa B

09/29/2025

Bloomsdale Spinach Seeds - Easy to Grow, Popular, and Nutritious

Beautiful Reds

Love this Hatch variety chili, next best thing to living in New Mexico! Yep, they grow in Oklahoma too!

Buster Holzer

09/27/2025

Awesome peppers!

This was my first time growing these and I will definitely be growing them from now on. Great germination and very sturdy plants that have withstood some really high winds. Huge long peppers that are excellent green or red, very easy to peel skin.

Dre Snow

09/25/2025

Hatch Green Medium - Big Jim Chile Seeds - Nice Heat & Great Flavor

Wow! BIG JIM PEPPERS

Growing these in Florida, (Recent transplant of NM).
Lovely peppers. Took a couple weeks is all and wow! I have several budding; 2 large enough to nickname. They're still in their infancy, but I can tell they are going to be great! Love the seeds!

BIG MARK

09/24/2025

Excellent!

Prudens purple was huge, productive, and delicious. Very crack resistant. Amazing!

Jamie

Pruden's Purple Tomato Seeds - Old Family Heirloom - Sweet Taste

Jalapeno to Chipotle

I got these to make Chipotle chilis. These fruit early and are mild-ish when green, but when they ripen, they are perfect for smoking and drying with great flavor and nice heat. Don't plant too many as they are quite prolific.

Dale DuVall

09/23/2025

Jalapeño Early Seeds - Short Season Pepper and Easy to Grow

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