Jere Gettle

About the Author

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. His seed company employs over 200 full time staff and includes a store, vegan restaurant, and pioneer village in his home town of Mansfield, Mo., as well as two other retail operations–the Seed Bank in Petaluma, California, and Comstock in Westerfield, Connecticut. His wife Emilee works in the business as well.