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I'm happy to have discovered sesame these past few years. Beautiful and easy to care for plants, growing up to 3-4' tall in ideal conditions. By A...

Juglans nigra - Valued for their nuts as well as their dark lustrous wood. Native across the deciduous woodlands of the eastern US, and the Carolin...

Beautiful medium sized fruit with dusky red and green-black stripes. Very rich flavour. Selected from a cross between Green Zebra and a black tomat...

Citrullus latanus - One of the earliest maturing watermelon varieties around. Developed in the 70’s by breeder Glenn Drowns to mature in his mounta...

This French heirloom is a favourite for winter storage. Blue-green leaves and thick stalks. 50+ seeds Grown by Yonder Hill Farm

Small yellow cherries produced in huge clusters, with 2 or 3 giant inflorescences per plant. Good flavour and notably little cracking. Indeterminat...

Eryngium planum - 3-4' tall plants with countless small frilly orb shaped flowers. Some plants are more silvery and some or more blue. Beautiful cu...

Deep blue shoulders, golden underside. Juicy and good flavour. Distinctive curled leaves and calyx. 30 seeds-Grown by Annapolis Seeds

This is the corn that made me love sweet corn! Brilliant blue kernels. Sweet but not too sweet, with rich corn flavour. Kernels develop from white ...

(Bush Bean) Excellent eaten in the snap stage and also makes a beautiful dry bean (blue jay colours). Originally developed by Russ Crow in Michigan...

Scutellaria lateriflora - Valued medicinal and native wildflower. The leaves and flowers are Can be found in the wild in moist meadows, riversides ...

B. oleracea - aka Chinese Broccoli - This one was a real highlight last season. The florets are incredibly tender and tasty, and so good raw they o...

Gilia capitata - Soft ferny foliage topped by round lavender-blue flowers. Hardy fast growing annual, reaching about 3-5' tall. Native to western N...

Verbena hastata - Medicinal perennial, native to meadows and prairies of central/eastern North America. Spikes of vibrant blue blossoms, 3-5' in he...

New for 2026 - Baptisia australis - Native perennial. Their native range includes southern Ontario, southern Quebec and much of the eastern US. Bea...

Symphyotrichum cordifolium - aka Heartleaf Aster - Native perennial fall-blooming aster. Nova Scotia has an array of native aster species (I'm a pl...

A blue cherry tomato! These prolific plants produced beautiful blue fruit by the truss-full, right up until first frost. Blue shoulders and deep re...

Sweet, gorgeous, tropical flavour. Elongated, striped and blushed gold and peach. This saladette tomato has a dedicated fan club. 25 seeds-Grown by...

Wavy and buttery romaine. Fairly open and compact heads as romaines go, due to its butterhead parentage. - Approx. 300 seeds (0.5 g)-Grown by Annap...

One of my favourite lettuces. Hardy and productive oakleaf that stays sweet and crisp into hot weather longer than most. Forms dense, open heads an...

Matricaria chamomilla - Big heavy flowers that are easy to harvest, you can rake them off with your fingers. German variety, selected for high medi...

Prolific bearer of long, thin walled fruits. They dry down easily for making a stunning deep red, sweet, very mildly spicy, flavourful paprika powd...

Eupatorium perfoliatum - Native perennial. Boneset grows wild across eastern North America including here in Nova Scotia. 3-4’ tall plants are topp...

Tiny plants, reaching 8-12" in both height and width. Very early harvests, we had fruit at the end of July from an early June transplant. Juicy red...

Cucumis sativus - This heirloom from Maine is Yonder Hill's favourite. Fruits are on the small side, 4-6” and tan coloured, turning plump and yello...

Beautiful round tri-tone beans; tan-fawn, with black stripes and a white saddle. Vigorous and productive pole bean. Very rare, and deserving to be ...

Compact plants, about 36" tall. An excellent dill grown primarily for leaf production. Also produces large seed heads in late summer, just in time ...

Pale green fruit with sweet pink flesh. Large, oval 10-15 pound melons with few seeds. They keep pretty well; most were harvested in early Septembe...

Huge crispy green pods on 6' vines. The largest pods of any variety in our collection. Our  long time favourite snow pea for flavour and productivi...

Plantago major - Broadleaf plantain is a very common medicinal plant. The broad juicy leaves are an instant go-to for stings and bites, drawing sli...

New for 2026 - Calendula officinalis - Abundant flowers with petals that are light peach on top and bronze-y red underneath. Tall stems make this o...

(Panicum miliaceum) Red-tinged plants with brown seeds. The plants bear loads of loose heads, not all at once but in sequence over several months. ...

This variety really impressed us last season! Beautiful tapered fruit start out violet purple and ripen to a deep rich red. Cayenne-like levels of ...

Good yields of medium to large sized sweet bell peppers. Named for their crinkled bottoms (which do sort of look like bovine noses). Old heirloom v...

Tall, bronze-green, loose leaf romaine. Quick growing and productive, it's ideal for cut-and-come-again harvesting. An old English heirloom. - Appr...

Bupleurum rotundifolium - Bright yellow-green flowers and lush foliage. The long stems are perfect for cut arrangements, the smooth almost waxy gre...

From legendary 19th century horticulturalist Luther Burbank. Beautiful darkly tinged plants with black kernels. 6-row type. 140+ seeds (5 g) -Grown...

C. moschata - The space saving plants are heavy producers of 2-3 pound fruits that some say are the best flavoured butternuts out there. We do find...

New for 2026 - Our own bush selection of the beloved Candy bean. Compact bush with big yields of large pink/red striped beans. As a dry bean they'r...

C. pepo - A favourite at Yonder Hill. The delicious nutty flavour and edible skin makes it a great addition to stews or roasts. The green stripes o...

Awesome variety for containers and small spaces. The compact vines only grow about 3’ long, and are loaded with short stubby fruit. Best harvested ...

Soft and succulent green leaves. They form beautiful heads when given enough space to grow, or you can sow them more thickly for baby leaves. Devel...

(C. moschata) Extra long-necked butternut squash. Filled with rich, sweet, orange flesh. The fruit can grow to length of over 24", and the extra ne...

Favourite among both market farmers and backyard gardeners. The dark green savoyed leaves are delicious and tender. They stay succulent even when h...

Asclepias tuberosa - aka: Pluerisy Root. Among the most showy members of the milkweed family. 1-2 foot tall plants topped with vibrant orange flowe...

This medium sized red slicer is always one of the earliest and most productive tomatoes we grow, usually starting to bear in early-August. You’ll h...

Zinnia elegans - Among the highlights of our 2022 growing season. Nearly everyone who visited the farm had to stop and admire the zinnia patch. Tal...

Eschscholzia californica - Native to our continent's west coast. An easy growing annual that thrives in many places. Golden flowers reach about 1 f...