The Shaker Seed Company was an American seed company that was owned and operated by the Shakers in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. In the latter part of the eighteenth century, many Shaker communities produced several vegetable seed varieties for sale.[A] The company created innovations in the marketing of seeds – including distributing, packaging and cataloging – all of which changed the horticultural business model forever.
The Mount Lebanon Shaker Village in New Lebanon, New York, was the most successful and the first to use the name Shaker Seed Company in advertising.[2] As its stationery reveals, the company adopted the phrase "Experto crede" as its motto, noting its establishment in 1794.
- ^ Blakeyly 2015.
- ^ Paine 1993, p. 375.
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