Products

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...

New for 2024 - Gilia capitata - Soft ferny foliage topped by round lavender-blue flowers. Hardy fast growing annual, reaching about 24" tall. Nativ...

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

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...

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...

New for 2024 - Matricaria chamomilla - Big heavy flowers that are easy to harvest, you can rake them off with your fingers. German variety, selecte...

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

New for 2024 - Eupatorium perfoliatum - Native perennial. Boneset grows wild across eastern North America including here in Nova Scotia. 3-4’ tall ...

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...

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 pods on 6' vines. The largest pods of any variety in our collection. My long time favourite snow pea for flavour and productivity. 30-...

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...

(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. ...

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 green flowers and lush foliage. Beautiful addition to flower beds, and the long stems are perfect for cut arrangem...

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

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...

A diverse population of butternuts, selected and bred by Adaptive Seeds in Oregon. They planted as many early butternut varieties as they could and...

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...

Camelina sativa - An ancient oilseed from northern Europe, very well suited to growing in the Maritimes. Extremely easy to grow, they can be direct...

C. moschata - Long curved necks of fine orange flesh. Prolific, productive and well suited for cool climates. Considered to be an ancestor of moder...

Early and abundant harvests of small grey-speckled beans. Self supporting bush plants which send out half-runners; they'll tangle together but stak...

(Semi-runner bean) Among my personal favourite dry beans. Large red striped beans, reminiscent of peppermint candies. Short vines, they sprawl a co...

Both visually and gastronomically stunning. Sweet and flavourful saladette, with pink and golden-orange striping. Plump, tapering to a pointy end. ...

B. rapa - A fast grower with crunchy upright stems, forming small bunches. Bok choy bolts quickly in the summer heat, so plant early spring or fall...

Large multi-coloured beefsteak on determinate, potato-leaf vines, 3-4' tall. Mostly green to yellow-green with pinks and yellow streaks within. One...

Very old variety developed by Capuchin monks in Holland in the 1500's. Best as a dry soup pea but can be eaten fresh as well. Beautiful purple pods...

Large ruffled heads of crisp, crunchy red and green blushed leaves. This French heirloom is excellent for cut and come again harvests, or for cutti...

New for 2024 - Carpesium macrocephalum - Da-hua-jin-wa-er - Unique and delightfully weird perennial member of the sunflower family (Asterceae). Lar...

Sweet and crispy sugar snap pods. Produced abundantly on compact 2-3' vines. 30-40 seeds (12 g) -Grown by Twisted Brook

Neputa cataria - Grow it for your cat, for herbal teas or for your favourite pollinators! This perennial mint relative is clumping in nature and ea...

These ones are dangerous! The thin, tapered, slightly crooked red peppers are very hot. They dry easily for cooking. 20 seeds -Grown by Yonder Hill...

aka; Celery Lettuce. This awesome and unique veggie is common in parts of Asia, but rarely grown in North America. Botanically, it’s a lettuce (Lac...

Large and productive brown and gold soybean. Slightly later than other varieties, but still matures consistently here in the Annapolis Valley. 30-5...

A rare loose-leaf lettuce, with green leaves blushed with red. Developed in the mid 20th century by Alan Chadwick, one of the fathers of the modern...

B. oleracea - We’ve been quite enamoured by collards in recent years, and Champion is one of our favourite varieties we’ve tried so far. Thick, alm...

Red and gold streaked heart-shaped cherries. The fruit are sweet and flavourful with a firm meaty texture, almost never splitting on the vine. We l...

These beautiful little fruit are sweet like a cherry, yet firm and flavourful like a roma. Mostly non-splitting, and they last for a good long whil...

- Info on shipping: Liquid cultures can only be shipped when temperatures in transit are above freezing (to avoid them freezing in the mail). So we...

(Bush Bean) Unique beans are a beautiful hue of creamy white/green. Beloved as a dry bean, and good as a shelling bean too. I wasn't a fan of the f...