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. Included in the list are traditional fruit & vegetable varieties, heritage animal breeds, & artisinal products that taste great and are threatened with extinction. 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!
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Djena Lee's Golden Girl Tomato
75-80 days. Medium-sized, golden slicing tomato with a sweet, non-acidic flavor. Round fruits have great texture, and are juicy but not overly runny…so they won’t make your sandwich bread soggy. Grown by Minnesota’s Djena Lee in the early 1900’s, this tomato was popular in Chicago and a favorit...
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” ...
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...
Stowell's Evergreen Sweet Corn
90 days. Developed in the early 1800’s, this is the sweetest, most tender open-pollinated sweet corn we know of. Ears are 8" long, kernels are white, sweet and tender. This here is good ol' fashioned sweet corn flavor! Throughout the 20th century, sweet corn breeding was entirely focused on bre...
Brandywine Tomato (Sudduth's Strain)
90 days. This is a the Sudduth’s strain of Pink Brandywine and many folks will agree that, hands down, it is the best tasting tomato around. We definitely won't fight you on that claim (we love it so much we've been growing it since 1999). In the 1980's, seeds were obtained by tomato collector ...