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Renee Shepherd
Renee Shepherd is a gardening entrepreneur and writer known for heirloom seed advocacy and garden-based cooking using home-grown herbs. ''Better Homes and Gardens'' called her "a groundbreaking gardener",〔Karen Weir-Jimerson and Jane McKeon, "The Herb Hunter," ''Better Homes and Gardens'' (August 2012), p. 90.〕 and ''Businessweek'' a "pioneering innovator" who helped popularize specialty vegetables and cottage garden flowers for home gardening and gourmet restaurants.〔"Executive Profile: Renee Shepherd", ''Bloomberg Businessweek''()〕
==Seed companies==
Shepherd earned a doctorate from the University of California, Santa Cruz in the early 1980s. While teaching environmental studies, she met a Dutch seed dealer who encouraged her interest in seed varieties. She began her own seed distribution company in 1983.〔Hazel White, "A Gardening Life: Seedswoman Renee Shepherd," ''Horticulture'' (August-September 2007), p. 60; Jim Long, "The Generous Gardener: Renee's Garden Spreads the Word of Gardening and Good Seed," ''Heirloom Gardening'' (Winter 2012–13), p. 80.〕 Shepherd's Garden Seeds was a small mail-order seed company specializing in uncommon vegetable and flower seeds. In 1988, the business was purchased by White Flower Farm, a larger mail-order nursery in Litchfield, Connecticut, which eventually closed it.〔Anne Raver, "Resistance May Be Futile: The Catalogs Are Here," ''The New York Times'' (January 16, 2000)(); ''Journey to New England: A Traveller's Guide'' (Globe Pequot Press, 1999), p. 353.〕 Anne Raver, a gardening writer for ''The New York Times'', cited the sale as an example of "an increasingly familiar story … : a small specialty nursery known for unique plants is bought by a larger company hoping to take advantage of its cutting-edge appeal and to get new plants for mass marketing. What ensues is invariably a loss of diversity … and, often, a loss of the vision that made the nursery attractive to begin with." In 1997, Shepherd went on to start a new business, Renee's Garden Seeds,〔Anne Raver, "Abruptly, an End Comes for a Garden Shangri-La" ''The New York Times'' (June 8, 2006)(); Janet Fletcher, "Garden Entrepreneur Renee Shepherd Cultivates Another Seed Firm," ''San Francisco Chronicle'' (March 4, 1998)()〕 based in Felton, California.〔Anne Raver, "Summer's Plump Little Success Story," ''The New York Times'' (June 22, 2006)()〕 In 2006, Renee's Garden Seeds were sold at 900 retail outlets in the United States, with 250 varieties of flowers, vegetables and herbs.〔Ann Kaiser, "Editor in the Country: Ann's on 'Jury Duty'," ''Country Woman Magazine'' (January-February 2006), p. 6.〕 In 2011, 2.5 million seed packets representing more than 400 varieties were sold online and at 1,500 garden centers in the United States and Canada.〔Justine DaCosta, "For 25 Years, the Woman Behind Renee's Garden Has Cultivated the Notion That Growing Plants from Seed Is Easier than You Might Think," ''Santa Cruz Sentinel'' (March 26, 2011)()〕
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