HOW WE SELECT AND SELL OUR SEEDS.
Like many farmers’ market growers, we’re totally organic in our practices but way too small to justify the expense of organic certification. The same, only more so, applies to selling heirloom vegetable seed. California regulations require germination testing by approved labs at the seed grower’s expense and in quantities that would use up a large proportion of our carefully gleaned seed crop. And that’s for each variety.

The solution? Our strategy for now is to give away seed but sell the packaging. The free seeds are sealed in zip-lock envelopes inside the packets along with information cards. Laytonville designer Sharon Jokela makes each packet a work of art. We store the seed carefully and only package it up in small batches as needed.

We grow new favorites for seed each season, and circle back to the best of these when our stock is low or seeds begin to lose their vigor. We test older seeds for germination each fall – results are posted with each variety’s description, along with the year it was grown. Some seeds listed here were grown as long ago as 2009 but are still vital and strong. We concentrate on hard-to-find varieties that perform vigorously in our gardens—and taste delicious. Why waste limited garden space on anything but the best-tasting and best-performing variety you can grow?

Seeds are the plants' gift to the future, and these seeds are our gift to you.
All are open-pollinated varieties. $3 per packet pays for packaging and shipping.

Click on a plant listed below to learn more about it - or to order its seeds.

Greens: Broccoli – Piricicaba (Brazilian) Kale – Red Russian – NEW! Lettuce – Merlot – NEW! Mustard – Osaka Purple Stinging Nettle (out of stock) Onions: White Nebuka Japanese Bunching Peppers: Feherozon Paprika Squash: Trombetta (out of stock) Tomatoes: Asimina Black Cherry Tomato Cherokee Chocolate – NEW! Jaune Flamme – NEW! Katinka Kellogg’s Breakfast Lillian’s Yellow – NEW! Mountain Gold Sweet Baby Girl Tennessee Heirloom (out of stock) Grains: Limelight Millet Black-seeded Sorghum Flowers: Ammi Hopi Tobacco Hungarian Bread Poppy

		phone: 707-354-1556 mailing address: P.O. Box 145 Laytonville CA 95454
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