Buying seeds that ship worldwide

I’m in a place where local shipping isn’t very developed and seed varieties are pretty much the same around the whole country (and mostly hybrids for veggies and very generic boring varieties). Does anyone have experience ordering seeds internationally and from what site? Id love to be able to use PFAF.org to find specific plant varieties that will fit my site. But I can almost guarantee I won’t be able to find them myself here so I’d have to order online and have them shipped. Ancient varieties, cover crops, fruits trees, bushes etc …. The more variety the better so I can make one big order with the maximum at once. Any site recommendations? Success having them shipped to countries outside of the us and Europe? (I’m in Algeria so Northern Africa)

Hey Julie! So I live in South America (Brazil) and while recently it's become easier to find more varieties, I've dealt with the same thing.
In the past seeds were banned from import here, some people skirted around this issue by seeing if they entered anyway and claiming ignorance. I've also heard of people importing large quantities of seeds (for farms) and asking them to be labeled as tea, which seems like a good way to get into trouble, but what do I know. You can make tea with certain seeds, after all. I did a quick search and the info for Algeria wasn't clear to me, but you may just get lucky.

If you don't have limits on what can come in, A friend and I buy a lot of seeds (mostly when I travel, but occasionally by mail) and Baker Creek has been getting seeds here by mail rather predictably in the last two years (Brazilian post service is famously terrible, so this is a big deal) (https://www.rareseeds.com/ ). You're not going to find any more variety anywhere else, I don't think!

Hi Julie, here's the global seed directory of plants for change. There were some in the Mediterranean.. Don't know if they'll ship to Algeria...

global seed directory app is at one third down, it's a map of the world you can zoom in at

If you're from Algeria, maybe some family in France could bring seeds of Pascal Poot his shop in the south. He grows without (almost) watering in one of europes hottest and dryest pockets. Everything that dies, he considers a win, so it won't contaminate the gene pool any longer.
You're welcome to join GoingToSeed for free, a collection of landrace freaks surrounding Joseph Lofthouse's philosophy, i'm a member of myself. That's a fascinating figure who's worked out to breed your own seeds from where there aren't any... In his case, because plants would not have time to grow seeds in the three month period of no frost in his mountainous dessert... So he had to work on creating his own.. Very rapid growing plants he selected for...
I'd be happy to try to introduce you there as a first member in Africa as far as i know. Just PM me. It's no guarantee, you know, but maybe others will join later and then exchanging could be easier, within Africa. And there's a world of information from plant breeders over there, i know one man that knew Ethiopian farmers..
There's South Africa which has some seed shops based on European varieties.
Anyway there's some options.
Hope this helps.

Yes this is the same problem I’m having ^^ I will check out the site and see if they’ll ship here they have beautiful pictures ! Thank you!

Tereza Okava wrote:some people skirted around this issue by seeing if they entered anyway and claiming ignorance. I've also heard of...asking them to be labeled as tea

I know of people shipping small quantities of seeds internationally embedded in art or rattles.

I know one ebay seller based in Russia (before the war broke out) used to send seeds embedded in a bag of random buttons, and mark the package "mixed buttons, vintage"...

Seed anarchy sounds like so much fun!