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An open cross up of the hardiest collards that make it through winter unscathed. We plant in spring and harvest all year, though they are at their ...

(Pole Bean) Beautiful heirloom variety grown by Haudenosaunee farming communities for many centuries. Productive and vigorous vines that are well a...

Nicotiana tabacum - Beautiful, striking plants with long leaves. By the end of summer, their flower stalks grow to 5-7 feet, topped with pink bloss...

Heirloom variety from the Hawke’s Bay region of New Zealand. Medium-large yellow fruit with really nice flavour. They’re meaty and perfect for tom...

Early maturing short grain variety from Hokkaido. Considered a lowland rice (preferring paddy cultivation), however they grow fine for us in regula...

New for 2024 - Sweet thin skinned paprika, ideal for both drying and pan frying. Plants are absolutely covered in long thin tapered fruit. Dry the ...

An older open-pollinated variety. At one point the standard commercial variety for making a certain brand of ketchup. Now quite rare. Determinate a...

Helenium autumnale - aka Autumn Sneezeweed, Helen’s Flower. Tall growing perennial, native across most of North America (although not here in Nova ...

Setaria italica - Four foot tall grass with dense, heavy reddish brown seed heads. This staple crop can be easily harvested and threshed by hand.  ...

Our earliest maturing edamame. Light green seeds produced on compact plants (18-24" tall). Along with Shirofumi it's one of my favourites for our p...

Vigna angularis - Low maintenance bush plants are loaded with pods by the end of summer. Adzuki beans aren't a common sight in Canadian gardens, bu...

Round black soybean. Great used dry in soups, or also eaten fresh for edamame. Quite rare. 30-50 seeds (12 g) -Grown by Annapolis Seeds (One of the...

One of the oldest heirloom varieties of parsnip, Hollow Crown is still hard to beat. Long robust roots with classic sweet and mild nu...

Cerinthe major - Lush blue-grey foliage, with delicate purple flowers (a particular favourite of bumblebees). The leaves are almost waxy in texture...

The kind you want for kimchi and gochujang! Long tapered fruit are medium hot (though not as hot as some Korean type peppers). Ripening from dark g...

Beautiful plant with multiple uses. From tasty microgreens to a good salad green or spinach substitute. Dark red leaves and trailing fuchsia blooms...

Marrubium vulgare - Perennial herb in the mint (Lamiacea) family. 18” tall, with fuzzy leaves and white flower clusters. Native to Eurasia, but na...

Amaranthus cruentus - Bronze spire blooms atop sturdy plants that reach for the sky. They are as at home in a flower garden or a vegetable garden. ...

A rare and special variety that we're excited to be offering. We get many inquiries at the Halifax Market from urban growers who want to grow tomat...

How to save your own Seeds - A Handbook for Small-Scale Seed ProductionBy Seeds of Diversity Canada. This book is one of the best resources out the...

Chenopodium nuttalliae - (Wa-zont-lay) This ancient crop was one of the most important grains grown by the Aztecs, alongside Amaranth, Corn and Chi...

Here's a unique one. I'd never before seen such large clusters of cherry tomatoes; each plant produces 4-5 clusters as big as an outstretched hand....

The classic banana pepper with a medium hot bite. Ripens from yellow to red. Our favourite for making sauces.... try slicing and fermenting them j...

Arugula is already a cold-hardy plant, but this variety is extra cold-resistant. Spicier and "wilder" than regular arugula, with a bit of red-blush...

Early determinate. These compact plants like to sprawl low to the ground. Excellent for container gardens. Orange, golf ball sized fruit are sweet ...

Physalis peruviana - aka Golden Berry, Cape Gooseberry. Although they look similar to their popular Ground Cherry cousins, the flavour of Inca Berr...

(Bush Bean) A very early and productive bush bean. The medium sized yellow beans are a favourite for soups. This bean was named after Ireland Creek...

A farm favourite. In a purely unscientific taste test we agreed this was our tastiest lettuce! A sweet and crispy butterhead-type with beautiful re...

Sweet red pepper with long, tapered fruit up to 7-8 inches (sometimes longer). Large yields from August right up until the first frost. 25 seeds-Gr...

New for 2024 - Polemonium caeruleum. - Shade loving herbaceous perennial. They form a mound of ferny green leaves with spires of delicate blue flow...

Cucumis anguria - These softly spiky little guys have quickly become a farm favourite. Like a crispy and juicy cucumber, sweet but also citrus fla...

A beautiful and exceptionally rich pear-shaped tomato. Among the darkest of the black tomatoes, and definitely among the most flavourful. They also...

Schizonepeta tenuifolia - A valued herb in traditional Chinese medicine. Annual member of the mint family, it’s easy to grow and reaches a size of ...

Polygonum tinctorium - The northern climate source of indigo dye. Grown for centuries in China and Japan, they also thrive in Nova Scotia. Fast gro...

Large bushy plants, which produce loads of round white fruit. They turn from white to yellow as they mature, but are best picked white and around ...

Deep-orange, smooth and unblemished skin. Sweet, juicy, mid-sized tomatoes are richly flavoured with good disease resistance. - 30 seeds-Grown by ...

One of our sweetest and crispest varieties. Like an open-head iceberg, but with more flavour than any supermarket iceberg. Red-speckled dark green ...

New for 2024 - Talinum paniculatum - Succulent lime-green leaves topped with a tall branching explosion of tiny pink flowers, which turn to small r...

New for 2024 - Zinnia elegans - Wildly colourful population, selected by the late great vegetable breeder Jim Bagget of Oregon State University. Zi...

(Pole bean) An excellent all-around pole bean. The red streaked pods are crispy and supple as fresh snap beans, and when left to mature the large b...

New for 2024 - Papaver sominiferum - Tall flowers with striking multi-hued frilly petals. Bees love their abundant pollen. When dry, the seed heads...

Sweet and crunchy, not to be confused as a hot pepper. Those who know Jimmy Nardello love it! The long pointed fruit are always early to ripen. 25 ...

Eutrochium maculatum - Perennial wildflower native to Nova Scotia and across much of North America. 6' tall plants topped with pink-purple blossoms...

B. oleracea -Broad green leaves with ruffled edges. Sweet and mild, as baby greens they're especially tender. Approx. 250 seeds (1g)-Grown by Annap...

Sweet shelling pea, produced on 3-4' vines. Heirloom from 1800’s England, where it was once a popular variety. Very rare today. These seeds made th...

(Pole Bean) These are among the most beautiful of our dry beans. The large orb-shaped beans are painted with two-shades of earth tones, with a dark...

A mix of all our favourite kale varieties. If you can't decide, why not try them all! Among the most cold hardy of greens for Fall and Winter growi...

Lepidium spp. - Hardy and fast growing, the peppery leaves are great chopped in salads or cooked into stews and curries. This variety is extra larg...