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About Us
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Jan and Bill Neiman founded
Native American Seed in 1989. |
Native
American Seed is a family-owned business. It was born in a space we created out behind the barn on our little 7-acre patch of prairie remnant in Argyle,
Texas. When our son Weston came along to join his sister
Emily, it was clearly time to move our office out of
the house. Our basic training had been in the Blackland
Prairie and Cross Timbers area, now mostly paved over by
the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The business of locating,
harvesting and selling native wildflower and grass seeds
came to us not as an ideology or abstract idea, but out
of years of experience in landscape construction and the
nursery business. That's a story in itself, and you can
read all about it on a page called "What
We're About." |
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moved to the outskirts of the Texas Hill Country in the
summer of 1995, where we found a beautiful place on the
Llano River just outside the town of Junction. After the first few years
operating out of the warehouse we created from what used to be the Junction
roller skating rink, the building was sold to some folks who made the brave
decision to bring back the roller rink, and we moved operations out to our
farm. That involved lots of changes, but we've now settled in and the UPS man
knows where we are, and comes every day to pick up your orders for delivery to you. For those
of you who enjoy learning about what really "makes
things tick," we've described the whole process from
start to finish on a page called "From
the Field to You." |
Our farm on the Llano River near Junction,
Texas. |
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Our booth in the annual festival held by
the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center near Austin, Texas.
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What
makes us different from many other wildflower seed companies
is our commitment to offering superior customer service, and only those plants that are
native to our bioregion. You won't find African daisies,
bluebonnets that have been grown in China, or even California
poppies in any of our mixes. Not because we don't think
they're pretty - they are! But because we understand that
every ecosystem is a delicate web of relationships that
have evolved over centuries. And humans, with all their
power of creativity and imagination, must respect the wisdom
of those centuries before entering into the processes of
nature as active participants. To illustrate that understanding,
we've written a little story called "What
is a native, anyway?" And as you explore the rest
of the pages in our site, you'll see all the different ways
we put our understanding into practice. |
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To
meet the individual people who work at Native American Seed, and
to find out more about what we do, see "Who
We Are".
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