Fellabees and Nativeseeds

Fellabees began with the simple truth that anyone can care for, and support, nature. Whether you have big dreams of slowly growing out sprawling acres, a small urban yard, or are renting, there are seed mixes and ideas here to fit your space and help both native flora, and fauna, thrive.

Our Purpose:

Here at Fellabees.com, we aren’t trying to compete with the massive gardening complex or the industrial native seed companies; in fact, we often recommend them to customers who want bulk quantities. Instead, we focus on filling a smaller, overlooked niche — one that needed attention for the sake of nature and to better serve our many individual customers and clients. It does require a lot of physical labor and endless effort, but it is well worth it, to spread native species seed anywhere possible to close the gaps between native pollinator’s needs.

Because our native seed packets are hand packed and labeled, because we hand harvest our species from privately managed woods, prairies, and remnants around the Midwest, our seed offerings are strategically small to avoid seed waste, to meet the potential of each seed as intended by nature.

If your space is small, why would you need 500 seeds of a singular species? If your experience level is newer, why would you want to be overwhelmed with thousands of seed for hundreds of species? You wouldn’t. That doesn’t serve you, or nature, efficiently.

Our format is designed to allow those with smaller spaces maximize their species diversity without blowing out their budget. With many of our species being discounted, the majority of orders placed have a wide array of species, allowing for very little risk while maximizing reward for the buyer, and potential for nature.

Our Passion:

It is our passion to share the wealth of our work with you. It is exactly what nature wants us to do. While it is a monumental effort, we find our work to be a pure joy, and a labor of love. From behaving like buffalo deep in the prairie, spreading native seed while we also collect for our inventories, to chasing down fleeting butterflies and bees for elusive cameo pictures, to seeking out new properties, collaborators, and prospective partners with land enough to add to our collection of regional diversity.

Our work is year-round, unending, deeply nuanced and always teaching us how to remain humble, open to new experiences, new knowledge, and fills us with a desire to share all that we find with anyone willing to listen to nature and learn from her wisdom.

Our Obsession:

We are nearly maniacally obsessed by every facet of what we do! We hunger to be in the field, we strategize constantly in how to reach new minds, how to satisfy every customer, answer every question to the best of our ability, and if we don’t know the answer, to take the opportunity to collaborate with our many friends and experts on every subject that pertains to the topic.

We are absolutely obsessed with fast AF fulfilment. We know shipping will take time but getting that fulfilment email is the first step to knowing we are on top of it and that your order is on the way. Many orders are fulfilled within hours of being placed. Most are fulfilled within 24 hours, depending on season, workload, and show schedule.

We respond to all customer emails. If you’ve placed an order with us, reference that order number and we will engage you asap to answer any questions you have, address any concern you feel, or guide you in any way that gives you confidence over the process of becoming a competent steward of nature.

Our Promise:

We will always be on natures side, as our motto states: “Loyalty To Nature Above All Else”. If you’re for nature, we are here for you. We grow our plants from our own inventory; and we know that there is a learning curve for each species and every knowledge level, and at times failure can happen. That is life, but the fastest path to success is built by stacking past failures, like blocks, to reach inevitable success, exactly as nature does.

Our seed is Pure Live Seed; it kept in optimal conditions until leaving our facility. Our germination rates trend high, and if ever we have batches that perform poorly we do not offer them to the public and will supplement inventory levels with bought in seed.

That said, it must be stated that there are quite a few species that we offer that can be difficult to germinate and some that must be kept fresh until stratification processes are begun or they will lose their viability slowly without being returned to refrigeration upon arrival. Because of the learning curve and nuances of how seed is treated, sown or handled beyond our control, we would be reckless to offer guarantees of 100% success for every species planted. However, we will always uphold our promise to stay with you the entire way.

Our Team:

We are a tiny firm attempting to do big things for people, pollinators and planet. On most days our staff in just one fulltime person, and one part time person. We do add another for larger shows where we present our entire inventory to be able to serve everyone as quickly and as efficiently as possible. This means every packet, every image, every aspect is packed, taken, or thought out by a small team with a tiny budget, paid for only by the profits made from your purchases. To that end, we serve nature, and thank you for making our Purpose, Passion, Obsession, Promise and Team possible.