At the Italian grocery store where I used to live, they put the seeds in the Italian sausage. Now I use it in spaghetti sauce, which I make using ground pork patties and homegrown tomatoes.
Peace, there is a spice company called Tones which sells fennel seed quite reasonably. See if there are any groceries near you which stock Tones' ware.
We have a plant of bronze fennel in the garden at our church. Since few people visit the garden (fear of the "homelss") we've decided it should be more of a butterfly garden. Last week I saw a large and beautiful black swallowtail checking out the fennel.
Here's a link to a picture of a black swallowtail.
Of course, we are resigned to not eating our fennel.