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Native American Seed Company, but they're pretty specific to native Texas plants.
For veggies, I've had success with Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.
Just a heads up Baker Creek has a dubious history of right leaning support and using their adopted Asian son as a prop to advertise Asian veggie seeds in their catalog until folks online asked about it. Just a lot of questionable behavior.
http://www.theredneckhippie.com/2019/04/baker-creek-seeds-supports-racism.html?m=1
https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/j1kqfp/controversy_with_baker_creek/
I remember reading about the Cliven Bundy thing a couple years ago and still don't quite understand Baker Creek's fault there. Dude's a world-renowned watermelon farmer in addition to right-wing terrorist, and it doesn't seem like Baker Creek did anything at all to support the man except ask him about growing watermelons
Cliven bundy has a proven track record of using whatever platform he's given to promote vile extremist views. Baker creek giving him a platform to speak is either negligent, if they are claiming they never once googled his name, or an indicator of support for his views.
I lean towards the second interpretation. On the speaker agenda, he's referred to as a "land rights activist", indicating that that is a specific topic they knew he would discuss, and they didn't just hear about him as a random watermelon farmer.
Looking at the speaker before him, too, they run a group that thinks you can just come down with a case of autism from eating GMOs and cure yourself with organic food, and they are also 5g conspiracy theorists. You don't accidentally put those types of people together.
When called out about it, they basically defended their choice to invite him, even though they could have disavowed him.