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(Pole Bean) - Long, flat, golden-yellow pods which are so tender and sweet it's hard to get them out of the garden uneaten! The prolific vines will...

New for 2024 - Gomphrena globosa - aka Globe Amaranth. Compact bushy annual plants, with bright fireworks display of blooms. Enchanting geometrical...

Chenopodium bonus-henricus – Perennial vegetable, popular for centuries in Europe. Now finding a home in permaculture gardens and food forests. Amo...

A really good multi-purpose variety, great for sauce or fresh eating. What makes this tomato unique is it’s ability to store and ripen over the fal...

An excellent buttery tasting edamame, and a fine dry soybean too. This Doukhobour heirloom from Grand Forks, BC is always among the earliest of our...

(Pole) After hearing several foodie friends talk about this variety, I had to try growing it. One of the tastiest beans I've come across yet! The s...

Phaseolus coccineus - Truly gigantic white beans. They swell up even more when cooked, becoming soft clouds which basically fill a whole spoon. Tal...

Verbascum olympicum - Distinct species from common mullein. This one is native to the mountains of Greece and Turkey. As a medicinal, it's used in ...

Cucumis sativus - Prolific and delicious heirloom cucumber. Similar to the beloved Lemon Cucumber, but lime green. Great size for snacking out of h...

A productive variety great for fresh eating as well as freezing. 4 inch green pods filled with plump, sugary sweet peas. Plants are fairly compact,...

Anthriscus cerefolium - Soft ferny leaves that are sweet and anise flavoured. Super cold hardy, when planted in the fall chervil will overwinter an...

Sweet with an aromatic almost spicy quality. Green with silvery shoulders. Small, slightly pear shaped fruit with a yellow blush when ripe. 25 seed...

Persian-style cucumber has become a favourite at Twisted Brook’s market stand. Thin-skinned, tender and crisp, with fewer seeds than most varietie...

The winner of the tasting contest at our Tomato Fest in 2012. The fruit are around the size of large grape and are produced on bushy plants. 30 see...

Beautiful, flavourful, light green oak-shaped lettuce. Stays sweet longer into the summer than most varieties. Low-growing open rosettes, perfect f...

Striped green saladette. Can be hard to tell when it’s truly ripe, the downfall of the green-when-ripe tomato, but a pink-yellow blushing and a lit...

One of the best green tomato varieties, introduced by master tomato breeder Tom Wagner in 1985.  2-3" fruit, bright green (verging on yellow) with ...

New for 2024 - Brassica napus - Heirloom from the town of Groningen in the Netherlands. Hardy and delectable, the big succulent leaves hold up well...

Foeniculum vulgare - The perennial type grown for leaves and seeds, as opposed to Florence Fennel which is grown for bulbs. Hardy clump forming pla...

C. moschata - Amazing green-fleshed fruit. One of our favourite squash for flavour; sweet and fruity (reminiscent of honeydew) with firm, silky tex...

Beautiful heirloom tomato from the Channel Islands. The 3” round fruit with green and red streaks are great diced in salads. 30 seeds -Grown by Ann...

Petroselinum hortense - We've become big fans of Root Parsley around here lately! Easy to grow biennial, they grow just like regular parsley and th...

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...

Viola tricolor - aka; Wild Viola, Johnny-jump-up. Annual wildflower native to Europe. This much loved flower has the habit of popping up in odd cor...

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 ...