{"id":70450,"date":"2020-04-05T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/?p=70450"},"modified":"2024-07-04T08:10:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T12:10:47","slug":"vegetable-seeds-are-the-new-toilet-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2020\/04\/vegetable-seeds-are-the-new-toilet-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetable Seeds Are the New Toilet Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Got seeds?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seed sellers across North America have been overwhelmed by skyrocketing demand in recent weeks as home gardeners are preparing to grow their own vegetables in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting around March 16, online seed stores saw a huge spike in orders for vegetable seeds, as fears emerged that the pandemic could threaten food security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The increase in demand was so dramatic for Wayne Gale and his Canada-based business, Stokes Seeds, that they temporarily closed down their online store for home gardeners, in order to ensure they could fill all of their orders for commercial growers. Gale\u2019s business received around 1,000 orders from home gardeners during the weekend before March 16, a period of time it would usually receive around 350 such orders. \u201cAnd this is not our peak season. Usually our peak season is the second week of February,\u201d Gale says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sellers say that many of their new customers are likely new to the world of gardening, and are cooped up in their homes with a lot of time on their hands. While seed growers think any time is a good time to start growing your own food, they say concerns over the food supply are probably driving a lot of the current interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Veseys Seeds, a mail-order seed company based in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, processed the same number of orders by the end of March than it would have completed by June in a normal year.\u00a0 During that period, the company saw an average 335 percent increase over normal volume. One day last week it saw a 599 percent increase in demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think it\u2019s a combination of factors, but it\u2019s resulting in somewhat of a perfect storm here in little York, Prince Edward Island,\u201d says John Barrett, the company\u2019s director of sales, marketing and development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company, which prides itself on being able to turn around orders promptly, was running around 10 days behind near the end of March with around 12,000 orders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The spike has created<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">operational<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">challenges for seed sellers, as keeping up with demand has been hard. Some were already short staffed, as employees were quarantined due to travel, or had to stay home with their children as schools closed. And some sellers would usually be winding down at this time of year and laying off their seasonal workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seed companies have been largely unable to bring new employees into their warehouses to help with the backlogs, due to social distancing guidelines they are following. As has been the case with other industries, they have had to weigh efficiency with safety and do the best they can.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70452\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-70452\" src=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/West-Covid-Heat-Map-1200x693.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/West-Covid-Heat-Map-1200x693.png 1200w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/West-Covid-Heat-Map-560x323.png 560w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/West-Covid-Heat-Map-768x443.png 768w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/West-Covid-Heat-Map-1536x887.png 1536w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/West-Covid-Heat-Map-2048x1183.png 2048w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/West-Covid-Heat-Map-1732x1000.png 1732w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/West-Covid-Heat-Map.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A heat map showing where Harris Seeds has experienced its spike in sales in California between March 16 and April 2. Image courtesy of Harris Seeds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ken Wasnock, the CEO of Harris Seeds, says that the majority of his company\u2019s new demand has come from urban areas. The company has seen high volumes of sales to neighborhoods in New York City, where historically it hasn\u2019t sold much seed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harris Seeds, which is based in New York, has experienced a 50 percent uptick in the home gardener part of its business, and like others, saw its volume of orders spike three-fold on March 16. The company also sells to commercial growers, and wholesale to other sellers.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70453\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-70453\" src=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SE-Covid-Heat-Map-1200x685.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SE-Covid-Heat-Map-1200x685.png 1200w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SE-Covid-Heat-Map-560x320.png 560w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SE-Covid-Heat-Map-768x438.png 768w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SE-Covid-Heat-Map-1536x877.png 1536w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SE-Covid-Heat-Map-2048x1169.png 2048w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SE-Covid-Heat-Map-1752x1000.png 1752w, https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SE-Covid-Heat-Map.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A heat map showing where Harris Seeds has experienced its spike in sales in the Southeast between March 16 and April 2. Image courtesy of Harris Seeds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wasnock says earlier in the spike, a lot of the orders were coming from doomsday preppers, who purchased sprouting kits that don\u2019t require natural light. In the weeks since, he\u2019s seen an increase in children\u2019s gardening products, as parents try to plan activities and projects. Wasnock says that a high percentage of seeds people are buying are organic. Some of the more popular types of vegetable seeds ordered have included squash, zucchini, tomatoes and beans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He says that what seems to be top of mind for many new gardeners is food security. From a seed seller\u2019s perspective, it never hurts to start growing your own food, especially while governments across the world are struggling to figure out how the necessary number of workers will be available for the coming growing season. \u201cI think it\u2019s always good for people to grow their own food. I think that\u2019s something we\u2019ve largely lost as a society over the last 30 years or so,\u201d Wasnock says. \u201cSo I do think that it\u2019s always wise to do that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got seeds? Seed sellers across North America have been overwhelmed by skyrocketing demand in recent weeks as home gardeners are preparing to grow their own vegetables in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. 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