1999 Credit card payment capabilities are added in the Fall. For philosophical reasons pertaining to the subject of debt, this issue was hotly debated. We trust that people are not entering into the burden of debt by purchasing our seeds. With the groundwork complete, Mike and two daughters began creating the Web site, as well as our 1999 catalog, on a weekend trip to the Oregon coast. Two portable computers and a slow dialup connection were used.
Word of mouth is our main form of advertising and business builds.
The online catalog was static and orders had to be placed using the mail. Our name, the Victory Seed Company , originates from two reference points. With the end of World War II and the era of Victory Gardening over, farming began to change into the industrialized business that it is today. Victory Gardening was perhaps the last period in over 10,000 years of the agricultural history of mankind, where a vast number of people were part of their food production cycle. Although this trend for the demise of the family farm began earlier in the 20th century, this era marked the end of our agrarian society.