Espiritu: Seed commerce is almost impossible to scale quickly without acquisition
Kevin Espiritu · FULL INTERVIEW: Kevin Espiritu on Growing Epic Gardening · Mar 16, 2026 · at 9:49
Epic Gardening founder Kevin Espiritu explains the supply chain and capital expenditure barriers in the seed business that favor buying existing brands over building from scratch.
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“With seed, it's almost always going to be a buy because the infrastructure to actually like acquire seed, we have, we sell almost 800 varieties of seed, vegetables, flowers, herbs. It's nearly impossible to scale that really quickly. If they have like buyer's relationships, the buy orders are out a couple of years. You need like pretty specific infrastructure to actually like germinate and test those seeds to pack them appropriately.”
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