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Slow Food's Ark of Taste

A Living Catalog of Delicious & Distinctive Foods Facing Extinction

The Ark of Taste was created by Slow Food to preserve unique & threatened foods. To help preserve these unique and threatened foods, Nature & Nurture Seeds offers over a dozen Ark of Taste seeds. By growing these seeds, we help keep them on our plates and safe from extinction...and we get to enjoy their incredible flavors!

   For more info about Slow Food USA's Ark of Taste click here.

 
 
Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry

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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Brandywine Tomato (Sudduth's Strain)

Brandywine Tomato (Sudduth's Strain)

90 days. This Brandywine strain is THE quintessential heirloom tomato that brought heirlooms to fame. Large, pink, juicy beefsteak with exquisite flavor and many folks will agree that, hands down, it is the best tasting tomato around. We love it so much we've been growing it since 1999! In the ...
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Ferris Wheel Tomato

Ferris Wheel Tomato

90 days. The outstanding flavor of Ferris Wheel knocked us off our feet when Ryan Padgett of Radicle Roots Farm brought this large beefsteak to our 2017 Harvest Festival’s tomato tasting; it has been a favorite ever since. Large, pink, 1 lb fruits are lusciously juicy, sweet, and complex. This ...
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Hinkelhatz Hot Pepper

Hinkelhatz Hot Pepper

88 days. Short 2 ft bush plants are prolific producers of 1” red hot peppers shaped like the heart of a chicken, which is where its name comes from. These peppers are very hot with an instant kick of strong pepper flavor that goes straight to the head. Grown by Pennsylvania Mennonites for over ...
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Livingston's Golden Queen Tomato

Livingston's Golden Queen Tomato

80 days. This tomato was introduced in 1882 by pioneering seedsman Alexander W. Livingston of Columbus, Ohio. A.W. Livingston is best known for introducing a large number of tomatoes to the Great Lakes region around the turn of the 20th century. Vigorous plants produce round, medium sized (3½” ...
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Sheboygan Tomato

Sheboygan Tomato

80 days. Sheboygan is a juicy paste type tomato that produces an abundance of medium sized, 6 oz pink fruit. It has a complex, balanced taste characteristic of heirloom tomatoes. Great for sauce but, unlike most paste tomatoes, eaten fresh it is good too. Grown by Lithuanian immigrants near She...
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Thelma Sanders Winter Squash

Thelma Sanders Winter Squash

90 days. We first grew Thelma Sanders in 2008 and boy were we blown away. We were looking for a vigorous, high yielding, and great tasting winter squash with consistent ripening and this one fit the bill! An heirloom originally from Missouri, it was saved by squash seed collectors Sue and Tom K...
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Amish Paste Tomato

Amish Paste Tomato

85 days. Amish Paste is a delightfully juicy, full-flavored salad tomato. In fact, it's listed on Slow Food USA's Ark of Taste (see Resources) because it's so darn good! An Amish variety from Lancaster, PA, these tomatoes offer a perfect combination of salty and sweet. It's Erica's mom's favori...
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Beaver Dam Hot Pepper

Beaver Dam Hot Pepper

90 days. This pepper was brought to the Great Lakes Region (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin) in 1912 by a Hungarian family. Listed in the Slow Food Ark of Taste, this gorgeous pepper is quite unique. Beaver Dam offers the complex, sugary flavor and eating qualities of a sweet pepper, but it pairs these q...
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Sheepnose Pimento Sweet Pepper

Sheepnose Pimento Sweet Pepper

75 days. This is sweet pepper perfection! Peppers are 3 - 4" in diameter. Pimento peppers were widely grown before bell peppers came to dominate the sweet pepper scene. Pimento peppers are round and squat-shaped and are known for their sweet, fruity, aromatic flavor and early ripening. Erica ha...
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Taiwanese Quinoa

Taiwanese Quinoa

30 days leaf, 125 days seed. This plant is a quinoa relative from Taiwan and China, which is used for its red/purple, edible greens. It is 6’ tall and is related to lamb’s quarters, magenta spreen, and quinoa. It is similar to magenta spreen, but with much larger leaves that are edible much lat...
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Valencia Tomato

Valencia Tomato

76 days. This slicing tomato blows us away! We harvest bushel after bushel full of perfect, orange globes fit for a king. A zesty taste and a luscious texture endowed with the perfect balance of sweet and acid, juice and flesh. Plants are vigorous, disease-resistant, and high-yielding. Medium s...
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