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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...

Centaurea cyanus - aka; Corn Flower. Easy to grow annual, with blue, pink, white and mauve blossoms produced on 2-3' plants. An excellent nectar so...

Extremely early, sweet, red cherry with compact, horizontally growing plants. Ideal for hanging baskets or patio gardens, the vines only grow about...

The smallest sunflower I’ve yet grown. The petite yellow flowers reach about waist high, with many side branches and continuous blooms for many wee...

Brassica rapa - Tall crispy leaves, with broad white midribs. My favourite Napa cabbage of the varieties I’ve trialled, they’re quick to size up an...

B. rapa - aka: Rapini. This relative of broccoli forms small, deep-green heads loaded with nutrients and flavour. Both the heads and young leaves 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...

These deeply lobed, squat peppers look like mini cinderella pumpkins. They start green and turn a deep red when fully ripe. The perfect stuffing pe...

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

A cultivated strain of the common wild purslane. I’ve been a fan of crunchy, succulent purslane for years, adding it’s leaves and shoots to salads....

De-hybridized, open pollinated version of Gypsy Pepper. Sweet, crispy and well adapted for our region. These plants bear an abundance of large top-...

(Lens culinaris) Small, shiny black lentils, which resemble caviar when cooked. Especially high in protein. - Grow lentils similarly to peas; direc...

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...

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...

Cucumis sativus - A very crisp, sweet, tender cucumber that grows about 16" long and stays quite thin. Great fresh or pickled, the fruits have smal...

Brassica oleracea - An early spring sprouting broccoli from England. It is seeded and transplanted into cold frames or greenhouses in the fall, and...

The classic green romaine lettuce. Large broad leaves with sweet and crispy veins. Great for full heads, or for baby leaves. An heirloom named afte...

Fagopyrum tataricum - aka: Himalayan Tartary. Distinct species from common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum), tartary plants are more delicate in ap...

B. juncea - Diverse and magnificent, lustrous landrace mustard greens mix for spicy and beautiful salads. Lots of colours and textures. Does well f...

A mixture with at least three different phenotypes. Golden and crimson flower heads, some more upright and some drooping. 5-8' tall plants. The (mo...

Solanum melanocerasum - Closely related to the Sunberry, Garden Huckleberries are more robust plants with larger, but less sweet, fruit. The berrie...

Crispy egg-shaped fruit, with soft creamy skin. Best picked when the fruit are young for peak tenderness. Heirloom from Croatia. 25 seeds -Grown by...

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...

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...

Brassica napus - Rare heirloom from Lithuania, this variety came to us through Seeds or Diversity. An excellent winter keeper, with creamy light-ye...

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

Our earliest and most compact shelling pea. Good yields from short plants, about 18" tall. Staking is optional; we usually don't stake them, althou...

Delicious and hardy winter leek well loved by northern gardeners and market farmers. Uniform, medium length white shafts and dark green leaves. The...

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...

(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...

Perilla frutescens var. crispa - Unique herb which deserves to be better known. The young tender leaves make a flavourful addition to salads, sushi...

Scabiosa stellata - aka; Pincushion Flower. Annual, with soft-purple blossoms followed by geometric papery seed heads. A beautiful addition to drie...

The classic dark green zucchini. Productive bush plants, they start early and keep on bearing if you keep them picked. Dates back to the 1940s, was...

New for 2024 - Xerochrysum bracteatum - Beautiful range of pearls, gentle yellows, soft pink, rosy red, peach and frosted tips. 3-4' tall annual. I...

Agastache foeniculum – Almost identical to anise hyssop, but with snow white flowers and slightly less sweet and more minty in flavour. Perennial. ...

Tagates erecta - Large and lush double blooms, in shades of orange and yellow. Tall bushy plants, reaching about 3’. 40+ seeds Grown by Annapolis S...

(Bush Bean) A local Nova Scotia strain of the popular Jacob’s Cattle. Grown by Winks Gillis of West Dalhousie, Annapolis County, for decades. It di...

(Claytonia perfoliata) aka Miner’s Lettuce or Winter Purslane. Heart shaped succulent leaves with mild flavour. One of the hardiest of greens, grow...

Nigella sativa - Not a true cumin, but a close relative to Love in the Mist. Beautiful flowers are followed by pods of aromatic black seeds, which ...

Small, but very hot, bright yellow fruit. Delightful fruity flavour, but just for a moment or two until the heat arrives. Thin walls make them easy...

Traditional variety from Tunisia. This one has quickly become a personal favourite of mine. Mild heat, but also sweet and richly flavoured. Great f...

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...

I grew Sapporo Express for years thinking it was purely a shelling pea. Until one summer I realized the pods are crispy and delicious, even when qu...

A very sweet sunny cherry tomato. The mid-sized golden yellow fruit are produced in good sized trusses and are among the sweetest we’ve grown. Comp...

Chenopodium giganteum - A cultivated form of wild lamb’s quarters, with tender leaves and a beautiful magenta coloured dusting. Pick the young tend...

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...

Zinnia peruviana - Wildflower native to South America. The bronze-red flowers are smaller and more subtle than common zinnia, with their own elegan...

Very productive green soup pea, usually our highest yielding variety. The plants need good support as they can grow upwards of 5-6 feet. An old Que...