Jere gettle biography

Mansfield, MO

Jeremiath Gettle, known to most as Jere, collected many things as a child — stamps, coins and, after flipping through a seed catalog at age five, seeds.

Jere spent most of his youth in Montana where his father’s love for gardening wore off on him.

Jere Gettle's passion for farming developed early, and by the age of seventeen he was in business, selling seeds from his bedroom in Mansfield, Missouri.

Jere Gettle's passion for farming developed early, and by the age of seventeen he was in business, selling seeds from his bedroom in Mansfield, Missouri.

At age 17, Gettle began saving, collecting, and trading seeds.

Farm Aid Profile for Farmer Hero Jere Gettle, who at age 17 pioneered Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds and has dedicated his life to maintaining.

Meet Jere Gettle, founder and owner of Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company, Missouri, United States.

As a child growing up on his family's farm in the s, Jere Gettle didn't spend his evenings watching TV; instead, he read seed catalogs.

Since those early days, Jere’s passion for seeds has continued to grow, eventually flourishing into a thriving seed company of his own.

In 1997, at the age of 17, Jere started Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds in Mansfield, Missouri.

By the following year, the company had printed 550 twelve-page catalogs, containing 70 heirloom varieties. Heirlooms are local or regional varieties that are passed down from generation to generation and have not been mass cultivated in at least 50 years.

Jere’s commitment to heirlooms has sent him, his wife Emilee and their daughter Sasha to remote places across the globe to track down varieties that have been cultivated for hundreds of years. All of this travel has pa