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100 days. This landrace variety from Uzbekistan was the most productive and early upland rice in our 2018 trial. Classified as a short-grain brown rice, Amaura grows well when watered with drip irrigation like corn. We originally received these seeds from Indiana farmer John Sherck, who genero...

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Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry

70 days. If you have never eaten a ground cherry, do yourself a favor and try these small, delectable fruits. These juicy, golden morsels are packed with sweet, tropical flavors reminiscent of pineapples. Scrumptious raw or added to smoothies, our customers have also enjoyed ground cherries in ...

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Badger Flame Beet

55 days baby, 80 days full size. Gorgeous fire orange beet with concentric rings similar to Chioggia - it is as tasty as it looks! Badger Flame lacks the “dirt” flavor that some eaters dislike in beets. In our trial these beets, when harvested young, remained sweet and tender even during the he...

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Blush Tomato

84 days. Blush is a perfect example of needed innovation in the breeding of open-pollinated crops. Introduced in 2011 by farmer/breeder Fred Hempel of Baia Nicchia Farm in Sunol, CA. Blush is vigorous, productive and boy is it tasty! Fruits are oval, 2- 2½" long, exhibiting a light gold skin wi...

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Bobis D'Albenga Bean

55 days. Great tasting green snap beans with gorgeous purple streaked pods. We think these are the best streaked green beans because they sport great flavor and remain crunchy and tender, not tough, even after pods are more mature. Plants are bushy, vigorous and have some resistance to Common ...

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Bouquet Dill

50 days (leaf harvest), 100 days (seed). Bouquet dill has edible leaves, flowers, and seeds. It is easy to start from seed and grows quickly, making it an easy choice for an herb garden. It can be grown tucked away in any corner and also works well in a pot. Use the fresh leaves (aka “dill weed...

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Butterbush Winter Squash

87 days. Didn’t think you could grow butternut squash? Think again! This excellent flavored butternut type squash is perfect for space-constrained gardeners because vines are dwarf. Early ripening makes them a great choice for northern gardeners with a short growing season. Butterbush squash ar...

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Chicago Pickling Cucumber

58 days. This is a great slicing cucumber! We first grew Chicago Pickling as a part of Slow Food’s Great Lakes Heirloom Seed project in 2011 and we were hooked. Even though it is a "pickling" type cucumber it is crisp, light and refreshing as a slicing cucumber with a sublime sweetness not foun...

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Chioggia Guardsmark Beet

60 days. When a classic Italian heirloom was put through a rigorous selection and improvement process, this beet was born! The Chioggia beet, sometimes called Bassano after its Italian hometown, has been grown and sold in the U.S. for 180 years! The most famous feature of this variety is the co...

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Chocolate Cake Sweet Bell Pepper

85-90 days. Our favorite chocolate-brown bell pepper with standout sweetness and a bold color that contrasts beautifully in a fresh salad or veggie tray. This variety was introduced by prolific pepper breeder, Doug Jones, who selected for earliness, productivity, and deliciousness. Pepper shape...

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Cupidon Bean

55 days. High-yielding French filet bean with narrow and round, 7-inch long green pods. Bush type plants produce high yields of crisp yet tender pods. Pleasant mellow flavor. Great eaten raw in salads. Called Haricot Verts in French, these beans are traditionally prepared lightly steamed and se...

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Dakota Black Popcorn

100 days. This beautiful black-kerneled popcorn is easy to grow and tastes incredible. Erica’s mom, who is a serious popcorn aficionado, describes the rich flavor as “delicious!” and it is practically hearty enough to be a meal on its own. Plants are early, 6’ tall and produce 1, 6-8” ear per p...

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Dakota Sisters Melon

80 days. Dakota Sisters is a classic, netted cantaloupe with orange flesh that is adapted to short growing seasons. Forty years of careful breeding and hard work by David Podoll and family of North Dakota have culminated in this reliable melon that thrives in northern climates. In particular, t...

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Detroit Dark Red Beet

60 days. Erica first came across the Detroit Dark Red beet in 1997 as a farm apprentice in Santa Cruz, CA and thought, "why is this beet named after Detroit?" A Michigan native herself, Erica could not believe this sweet beet hailed from the Motor City. Apparently, it's relatively unknown that ...

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Dyer's Coreopsis

55 days. Erica loves this easy-to-grow flower that adds color to the garden and can also be used to dye yarn. Dyer’s Coreopsis is a compact plant (2-3’ height) that is fast growing and by mid-summer plants are loaded with 1” diameter, yellow and/or red flowers. Erica has used it to dye wool in ...

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Emerald Gem Melon

77 days. This melon from Benzie County, Michigan was introduced in 1886. Its exquisite, floral, sweet flavor rivals that of the best French melons. Melt-in-your-mouth flesh is refreshingly juicy - eat it like ice cream with a spoon! Early, vigorous vines are productive in the north and grow wel...

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Fercita Amaranth

75-90 days. An early, edible grain amaranth with gorgeous multi-colored plumes of magenta, pink, and pastel-yellow flowers perfect for northern growers. This high-protein, gluten-free grain is easy to grow and will grow in poor, dry soils. Short, stocky plants (3-4’ tall) make this amaranth ea...

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Forellenschluss Lettuce

55 days. Apple-green romaine with red speckled leaves good for summer growing. This is one of the first heirloom lettuce varieties that Erica grew back in the 1990's and it is still a great lettuce! From Australia, it performs well in summer heat. Nice flavor and crunch. Works well as for cut-a...

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Gold Currant Tomato

70 days. Currant tomatoes belong to a different species than common tomatoes. They produce clusters of round, berry-sized tomatoes that are known for their intense flavor and disease resistance. Gold Currant produces yellow fruits that are about 1” diameter and offer a zesty tomato flavor. Vine...

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Golden Rocky Bean

50 days. Yellow bush bean that produces abundant, uniform, tender and delicious snap beans. Excellent variety for northern growers - seeds germinate and grow well in cooler, damp conditions of spring. Beans retain yellow color after cooking, so we love sautéing them with green beans and garlic....

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Green Finger Cucumber

60 days. Thin skinned, slicing cucumber with a small seed cavity makes these cukes extra delicious. Tender, crisp and highly productive over a long harvest window. Adapted to northern field conditions and resistant to powdery mildew, making these perfect for market growers and beginning gardene...

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Growing-In-Place Cherry Tomato

60 days. This juicy, currant type, deep red, round tomato is the size of a small cherry sporting mouth-popping, bold flavor. It was a real hit at our local HomeGrown Festival 2014. Perfect in salads and kids love them! Plants are vigorous and yield large quantities of clustered fruits all summe...

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Holmes Royal Red Radish

25 days. Taste testers agree – this radish will knock your socks off! It has a delicate, mild and sweet flavor, and is crisp yet tender. Similar in size, round shape, and red exterior/white interior to the standard commercial radish but without the harsh spicy bite. So good that radish haters m...

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Hopi Red Dye Amaranth

14 days baby, 70 days flowering plant, 110 days seed. We have been growing and saving seeds of Hopi Red Dye amaranth since 1996 because we just love it so much. So, now we’re really excited to share it! Amaranthus cruentus was domesticated by the indigenous people of Central America. This varie...

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Jazzy Leaf Lettuce Mix

30 days baby. A fabulous mix of wine red, neon green, and colors in-between! This is a seed mix from one of Erica’s lettuce breeding adventures. Loose leaf lettuces make a great cut-and-come-again salad mix. Will form loose heads if left to mature. This mix is particularly cold hardy and resist...

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Lunchbox Orange Sweet Pepper

80 days. Fruity, snacking pepper that is sweet as candy entices kids of all ages into the garden – no one can resist eating these straight off the plant! Bright orange mini peppers (W 3” x 1½” H) are convenient healthy snacks that you can pack in your lunch. Satisfying crunch on salads and sand...

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Nasturtium

60 days. One of our favorite edible flowers, nasturtiums delightfully brighten up gardens and salads. In fact, the whole nasturtium plant is edible, making it the perfect edible ground cover. Flowers are mixed colors from yellow, orange, and red. Flowers and leaves have a spicy, almost arugula-...

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Orange Zinger Calendula Flowers

90 days. Eye-popping edible flowers make this variety both attractive and useful. Stunning orange flower petals brighten salads or can be used to make skin-healing oils and salves. Long stems (18-24”) make this calendula good for cut flowers. Calendula is versatile, easy to grow from seed and a...

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Perodovik Sunflower

Very large, single golden yellow heads shine on top of 6’ plants. This is a tall version of the commercial Russian oilseed variety which is also used in commercial birdseed. Seeds are small, black and edible. Kids love to grow sunflowers and Perodovik makes a fun sunflower house in which the fl...

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Pink Passion Chard

67 days. Vivacious fuchsia stems contrast with forest green leaves to add a fabulous flash of color to your garden! While we chose to test this variety because of its stunning appearance, we knew we had to offer this seed when we tasted the smooth, tender leaves. We think that chard is underapp...

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Potawatomi Lima Bean

100+ days. Lima beans that are tasty eaten dry or as a shelling bean. Vines are vigorous climbing “pole”-type. The beans are amazing in fall when beautiful seeds mottled with black, white and maroon pop out of the shell. This bean’s story is irrevocably linked to the story of indigenous Potawat...

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Purple Podded Pole Bean

70 days. These pole bean vines are vigorous, producing a continuous supply of flat, dark purple, sweet, stringless, 5 - 7 inch long snap beans. This bean was discovered in the 1930's in the Ozark mountains. We love it so much that we've been growing it since 2002. Pole beans utilize vertical sp...

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Ring of Fire Sunflower

70 days. Erica just adores this sunflower that greets the morning sun. Flowers are 4-5” across, have dark - almost black - centers with a central ring of brick red radiating out to a cheery golden yellow. Plants are 5-6’ tall and produce an abundance of uniform flowers with long stems perfect f...

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Santiam Sunrise Tomato

70 days. Apricot-orange cherry tomatoes with great flavor that resist splitting. Santiam Sunrise is a result of efforts to de-hybridize the popular hybrid Sungold tomato. This one is bred by our friend Andrew Still at Adaptive Seeds. It was the top pick in our open-pollinated Sungold-type tomat...

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Soltera Morado Sweet Corn

70 days. This corn is a show stopper! Gorgeous purple sweet corn high in anthocyanins. It even turns the cooking water purple. Sweeter than your average heirloom sweet corn, but not as sweet as hybrid corn. Compact plants are good for smaller gardens. Munk Bergin has been breeding corn for over...

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Soraya Sunflower

80 days. Quintessential sunflower for cheerful gardens, handmade summer bouquets, and the cut flower market. Flowers are 4-6” across, with dark chocolatey brown centers and vibrant golden orange petals. Plants stand strong at 5-6’ tall and branch heavily to produce an abundance of uniform flowe...

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Sugar Magnolia Pea

70 days. Stunning midnight-purple snap pea. After 15 years of breeding work, seed elder and activist Dr. Alan Kapular, of Peace Seeds, created the first ever purple podded snap pea and named it after a Grateful Dead song. Pods are crisp and sweet but not quite as sweet as Sugar Snap. Six foot t...

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Sugar Snap Pea

62-68 days. Before the Sugar Snap pea, most people grew either snow peas or shelling peas. Snow peas produce edible pods but the interior peas are tiny, and shelling peas contain large peas but the pods are inedible. In the late 60's, Calvin Lamborn crossed the two pea types, producing a pea wi...

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Sweet Dakota Bliss Beet

55 days. This wonderful beet hails from North Dakota, bred by longtime organic farmers David, Dan, and Theresa Podoll. It is red burgundy, round and has an oh-so-sweet flavor! Outstanding roasted with a touch of oil and salt. Plants are vigorous and tops are edible. Good for winter storage and ...

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Sweet Dakota Rose Watermelon

80-90 days. Luscious watermelon bred in North Dakota by the Podolls of Prairie Road Organic Seed. Our friend Ryan Padgett of Radicle Roots Community Farm in Ann Arbor grew this watermelon and we were really impressed with it. Round, medium sized (8-15lbs) fruit, with rosy red very sweet flesh. ...

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Sweet Siberian Watermelon

85 days. A wonderful, easy-to-grow golden watermelon. Rind is green, fruits are medium sized and oblong with delectably sweet, juicy flesh. Small, brown seeds. We have been growing it since 2002 - we love its sweet flavor and dependable ripening! Brought to the U.S. around 1900 from the Siberia...

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Tarahumara Sunflower

90 days. This gorgeous sunflower produces a primary, large (8-10” diameter) single flower head with multiple smaller side heads. Flowers have golden yellow petals with lime green centers. Plants grow 6-9’ tall. Seeds are white and are great to eat. Plants are vigorous and tolerant of many soil ...

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Top Hat Sweet Corn

80 days. This awesome new sweet corn is so sweet, you will think it’s a hybrid – it’s not and it’s absolutely delicious! Jonathon Spero has been working for many years to breed new open-pollinated, extra sweet corns, and Top Hat is a real winner. We love Top Hat too because the fat, tender kern...

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Trifecta Melon

83 days. This melon was named for its exceptional balance of three desirable traits: high quality fruit, large yields, and remarkable resistance to disease. Deep orange flesh is blissfully sweet. This medium-sized cantaloupe (3-5 lbs) has a very firm texture perfect for slices, cubes or melon b...

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Who Gets Kissed? Sweet Corn

78 – 84 days. We are thrilled to be able to bring you this awesome sweet corn! Who Gets Kissed was bred for ‘Sugary Enhanced’ sweetness, vigor, and disease resistance to rival hybrid corn, and boy does it deliver! This variety was bred through a collaboration between Minnesotan organic farmer, ...

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Dark Star Zucchini

55 days. For those who love green zucchini, Dark Star is a top pick. Bred through a collaboration of the Organic Seed Alliance and Eel River Farms, with a goal to create an open-pollinated zucchini that is reliably uniform and dark green. This one gives the corporate-owned hybrid zucchini seeds...

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Dragon Carrot

85 days. We have been growing Dragon since 2005 because we love it so much! Bred by master organic plant breeder John Navazio, founder of the Organic Seed Alliance. This carrot exhibits a unique purple exterior, orange flesh and yellow core. How cool is that? But more importantly, it tastes sw...

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Jen's Dill

UNAVAILABLE FOR 2021 - SEE BOUQUET DILL SUBSTITUTE. 50 days (leaf harvest), 100 days (seed)., Dill has held a regular spot in our garden for over 20 years, and is a favorite there and in the kitchen. Jen’s dill has edible leaves, flowers, and seeds. Dill is easy to start from seed and grows qui...

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Lemon Cucumber

65 days. Round, yellow-skinned slicing cucumber with cool, crisp, non-bitter taste. This lemon-sized cuke will help you beat the heat of a hot summer's day. Flesh is white. Brought to the U.S. from Australia in 1894 and favored for many years by gardeners because of its vigor, high yield, flavo...

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Parisian Carrot

UNAVAILABLE FOR 2021. 60 days. This early, "French Forcing" type carrot is easy to grow. Introduced to the US around 1861, it was widely cultivated by the turn of the century (this was your Great Grandparents' carrot). Round-shaped, root length is 1¼ - 1¾". Due to its short root, Parisian grows...

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Pisanello Tomato

OUT OF STOCK FOR 2021 80 days. A captivating, pleated Italian tomato brought to us by our friend and seed grower Dylan Bruce of Viroqua, WI. Dylan brought Pisanello back from his family reunion trip to Tuscany, Italy. Pisanello was selected by a farmer in Pisa and is named after the Renaissanc...

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