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"BreadSeed" Poppy Mix
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Also known as “Garden Poppy’ and “Opium Poppy”, this fast-growing annual is the source of sweet poppy seeds used in baking. Showy, pollinator friendly blossoms all summer in a range of colors are valuable dye plant sources. Young leaves picked before seed pod sets make a tasty treat raw or cooked and are a good mineral source due to plant’s tap root. At home in a formal garden or naturalizing in a meadow. Historically a valued medicinal all over the globe. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead favorite. (No shipping to West Virginia)
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Bachelor Buttons
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This hardy heirloom mix includes the traditional blue "corn flower", along with blooms in shades of pink, lavender and white. Adored by bees, butterflies and other pollinators, it grows 3 feet tall and blooms all summer. A wonderful cut flower (it is the canonical lapel flower), the 1-1.5” blossoms also are edible, with a light, spicy clove-like flavor. Flowers make attractive blue food dye, and have medicinal value.
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Bean - Indian Woman Yellow Shelling Bean
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An excellent shelling bush bean that does well in our climate where summers tend to be cool and short. Yellow, medium-sized beans with great flavor and texture that reliably mature to dryness in a shorter growing season. Now considered a rare heirloom, this bean originated in Mexico & made its way to Sweden before arriving in Montana via a Swedish family in the 1800’s. Nitrogen fixing legume. Benefits from bacterial inoculant.
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Bean - Kentucky Wonder Green Bean
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This pole bean, aka “Old Homestead,” is a treasured heirloom dating from about 1864. A delicious and prolific green bean with a brown seed and a smooth stringless 7" pod, it has stood the test of time. As a pole bean it does require staking or trellising.
Nitrogen fixing legume. Benefits from bacterial inoculant (included).
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Bean - Scarlet Runner Bean
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This heirloom, popular since colonial times, has many virtues. It is a beautiful red flowered vine that quickly covers fences, walls and trellises. It also produces delicious snap beans when young, or tasty dried shell beans when mature, and is a nitrogen-fixer and hummingbird feeder. Last but not least, its pretty red flowers are edible!
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Bean - Windsor Fava
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A frost-tolerant classic, old world shell bean variety with huge seeds, perfect for high latitude climates. Likes cool weather and is a very dependable yielder. Sweet, meaty beans also known as broad beans. Delicious fresh, dried or processed.
Nitrogen fixing legume. Benefits from bacterial inoculant (included).
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Calendula - Pot Marigold
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This hardy self-seeding heirloom, aka “pot marigold,” is a must-have for every home garden. Prolific, long-lasting bright orange flowers that are delicious to eat, make excellent dye plants, and provide antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and wound healing qualities as a treasured, topical medicinal.
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Columbine - Colorado
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This exquisitely delicate alpine columbine is native to our Rocky Mountains. Blue and lavender spurs are beautifully offset by a white corolla and yellow stamen. Early blooming perennial that grows to about 2.5 ft. Hummingbirds and other pollinators love them. Wildflower for naturalizing. Good permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden plant.
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Columbine-Chesaw Mix
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A colorful mx from our favorite plants that do well in our founders’ Chesaw garden. Easy to grow perennials that come back each year on their own and are adored by hummingbirds and butterflies. Wildflower for naturalizing. Good permaculture, polyculture and homestead plant.
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Coreopsis
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This lovely hardy perennial is great in wildlife settings and in open sunny garden spots. Pretty, bright yellow flowers with scalloped petals and russet centers. Grows 2-3 feet tall in average,well drained soils. Butterflies adore them. Excellent cut flower and dye plant. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden favorite.
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Cosmos - Two Medicine Mix
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This heirloom annual hails from Mexico and is hassle-free and long-blooming. Three-inch magenta, lilac and while flowers framed against graceful fine leaves fill in garden trouble spots and make beautiful cut flower arrangement. Excellent companion plant. This seed mix is from our favorite plants.
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Delphinium - Pacific Giant
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This heirloom perennial produces a truly spectacular flower. Plants grow a good 6-8 ft tall with 1 to 1.5 ft-long flower spires of rich hues of blues and white. They love our northern summer climate and are a huge hit as cut fresh or dried flowers. Particularly striking when planted in masses. A hummingbird favorite. Beautiful permaculture, polyculture, and homestead plant.
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Flower - Native Milkweed - Monarch Butterfly Plant
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Aka “Silkweed”, this tall, cold hardy native perennial herb is a long valued medicinal. Grows up to 5 ft, with fragrant, showy pink flowers that are a prized butterfly food source and nice cut flower. Flower buds and young shoots are nutritious and tasty thanks to plant's long tap root which brings minerals and micro-nutrients up from the soil's depth. Fiber and seed floss are valued as cordage, paper and cloth resources, and flowers make good fabric dyes. Great in a naturalizing wildflower garden. Essential host plant and food source for Monarch butterfly. Prized permaculture, polyculture and homestead plant.
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Ground Cherry - Cape Gooseberry
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Also known as Cape Gooseberry and Golden Berry, this relative of the tomato and the tomatillo is a tender perennial producing a delicious vitamin and fiber-rich gold colored fruit that stores well and is enjoyed eaten raw or preserved. Each fruit, about the size of a cherry tomato, comes wrapped in its own husk. Leaves and fruit have medicinal properties valued by herbalists. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead favorite.
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Herb - Anise
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This sweet, spicy, aromatic, mineral-accumulating Mediterranean culinary and medicinal herb grows to 24” with white flowers in summer, attracting pollinators. Renowned for its licorice flavored leaves, seeds, fruit and essential oils to season dishes and baked goods. Highly valued medicinal. Excellent companion plant. A permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden favorite. Also known as aniseseed.
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Herb - Ashwagandha
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Aka Indian Ginseng or Winter Cherry. This easy-to-grow member of the nightshade family, native to India, is treasured by Ayurvedic herbalists for its root, which has restorative and rejuvenating properties. Considered an adaptogen - a natural substance which helps the body adapt to stress and exerts a normalizing effect upon bodily processes. Attributed properties include: immune stimulant, replenishing strength and energy reserves, increasing mental awareness and mood balancer. Grows to about 3 ft and produces pretty red berries in lantern-like pods in late fall.
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Herb - Basil - Genovese
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The basil for pesto, with large luscious green leaves and a heavenly aroma. Will make your pesto famous. Loaded with vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants, this mint family member is also a valued medicinal herb.
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Herb - Basil - Spicy Bush
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Aka Greek Basil, this compact globe-shaped plant is great for container gardening. Petite shiny green leaves have a spicy, sweet flavor great in pestos and salads. Beautiful, tasty and no chopping! This mint family member is also a valued medicinal herb.
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Herb - Basil -Thai Sweet
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Highly aromatic leaves, with an anise-like flavor and mint/citrus undertones. Holds its flavor well under high heat cooking. Compact plant is great for container gardening. This mint family member is also a valued medicinal herb and good companion plant.
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Herb - Bee Balm
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This easy-to-grow perennial mint family member, also called Bergamot or Horsemint, produces large attractive fragrant lavender blossoms that the bees and butterflies adore and the deer won’t eat. An excellent companion plant and treasured medicinal. Blooms July-September.
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Herb - Blue Vervain
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Also known as Ma Bian Cao. Cold-hardy herbaceous perennial native to North America and long prized as a medicinal and ceremonial plant. Its European counterpart has been valued by cultures around the globe for millenia. One of the Bach Flower remedies. Whole plant value. Also pollinator friendly. Wildflower garden favorite. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead plant.
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Herb - Borage
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Large (3 ft tall) plant with a profusion of bright blue flowers all summer long, adored by bees, making borage a favorite of beekeepers. Young leaves and flowers have a delicate cucumber-like flavor, delightful in summer drinks, cold soups, and salads. Potassium-rich herb long valued as a medicinal by herbalists. Excellent companion plant. Flowers make pretty blue food and fabric dye.
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Herb - Catnip
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This easy-to-grow fragrant mint family member is beloved by cats, beneficial insects and humans. Blooms all summer. Makes pretty container or border plant. Treasured medicinal through the centuries for soothing nerves and headaches, reducing cramps, and promoting sleep. Pollinator friendly and good companion plant.
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Herb - Celandine
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This herbaceous perennial, now a naturalized wildflower, was imported by European settlers in the 1600’s because of its myriad medicinal values. A member of the poppy family, it was used for treating skin ailments, improving eye sight, alleviating tooth aches, tonifying the liver and as anti-cancer medicinal, among others. Plant sap also useful fabric dye. Shade-loving woodland plant with pretty yellow flowers in spring and early summer. Pollinator friendly. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden plant. Also known as Celandine Poppy and Wood Poppy.
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Herb - Clary Sage
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Aka “Clear Eye” and “Eye Bright”, this biennial mint family member produces a potent essential oil prized for centuries by herbalists and perfumers. Flowers and leaves are edible. Highly fragrant flower columns. Pollinator friendly and excellent companion plant for beans, brassicas, carrots. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead favorite. [No shipping to Washington]
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Herb - Echinacea purpurea
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Versatile perennial native to the American prairie, treasured through the centuries for its medicinal value. Aka “purple coneflower,” it produces pretty daisy-like blossoms up to 4” across June through August. Equally at home in a formal garden or a meadow. Flowers and roots useful fabric dyes. A prized homestead plant.
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Herb - Elecampane
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Giant deer-resistant, pollinator-friendly perennial (up to 5 ft). Root is a proven medicinal around the globe for treating bronchial infections, soothing lung disorders and relieving persistent coughs. Native to central Asia, with large tobacco-like leaves and bright yellow flowers, root is also a valued dye. Rich source of inulin. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden favorite.
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Herb - Feverfew
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A perennial medicinal plant with lots of pretty daisy-like flowers that grows to about a foot tall & self-seeds easily where it does not winter over. Long-lasting blooms are beautiful in bouquets. Indigenous to the Balkan peninsula of Europe, the citrus-scented leaves of this medicinal plant have been used by herbalists for centuries. A favorite for the homestead, permaculture, polyculture garden.
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Herb - Figwort
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Aka “woods figwort” and “Rose Noble” this hardy perennial is valued as a medicinal and pollinator plant around the globe. Grows to about 2 ft, with copper-colored flowers blooming July-September. Useful homestead, permaculture and polyculture plant.
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Herb - Horehound
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This herbaceous medicinal perennial is a member of the mint family. Particularly valued for treating cough and cold-related symptoms and for improving digestion. Excellent companion plant and pollinator friendly. Tolerates shade and poor soil well. A favorite for the permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden.
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Herb - Lemon Balm
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An aromatic mint family homestead perennial treasured by herbalists for centuries. Native to the Mediterranean and Middle East, it is the classic herb for tea and essential oil remedies. Vibrant green citrus-scented leaves and pollinator-friendly flowers all summer long. Good companion plant. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden favorite.
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Herb - Mallow
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Herbaceous, naturalized, bushy multi-functional perennial. Highly prized medicinal and food source - all parts are edible and full of nutrients due to plant’s tap root, which helps accumulate minerals and trace nutrients in the leaves. Fiber source for cordage and cloth, and valued dye plant. Bee pollinator plant with attractive flowers for cutting. Valued permaculture, polyculture and homestead plant.
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Herb - Marjoram-Sweet
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This mint family member is a milder, sweeter cousin to oregano. Native to the Mediterranean, it excels in tomato-based dishes and Greek cuisine. Also treasured by herbalists for centuries for easing anxiety and insomnia. Makes good companion plant, particularly among the squash and cucumbers. Like all mint family members, sweet marjoram is a good companion plant.
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Herb - Marshmallow
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Indispensable herbaceous perennial, valued by cultures around the globe for centuries. Every part of the plant (root, sap, flower, leaf, seed) provides nutrition and medicine. And yes, it is the source of the sticky confection we all love...thank the early Egyptians! Pollinator friendly. Dynamic accumulator due to long tap root. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden favorite.
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Herb - Milk Thistle
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A beautiful, miraculous, mineral and vitamin-rich multifunctional plant. Seeds are a valued medicinal, both as a liver tonic and liver tissue rebuilder. All parts are edible and highly nutritious, due to the plant's log tap root. The root is delicious raw or steamed; stem is edible, and the young leaves are tasty steamed or as salad greens (remove the prickles). Even the young thistle heads can be steamed like their relative, the artichoke. Striking green leaves with white veins and 2-inch purple flowers. The seeds also are a favorite food for goldfinches. Vigorous self-seeder. [No shipping to Washington, Oregon]
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Herb - Motherwort
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Highly prized cold hardy medicinal biennial. Well-known for balancing cardiovascular dysfunctions and promoting easy childbirth. Also valued dye plant and source for fragrant essential oil. Flowers are pretty in arrangements and tasty additions to soups and teas. Bee pollinator plant. Chinese herb name is Yi mu cao. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead plant. Good container plant.
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Herb - Native Arnica
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Native counterpart of the well-known European medicinal Arnica montana ("Mountain Arnica"). Easier to grow than A. montana, with same active compounds. Treasured by Native Americans and herbalists everywhere for centuries as an effective topical treatment for soothing sore muscles, reducing inflammation and healing wounds. A favorite for the permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden.
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Herb - Nettle
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Aka “Stinging Nettle” because of the skin irritating “hairs” on its leaves, this herbaceous perennial is a prized multi-use medicinal and multi-function plant. Tap root loads up new leaves with vitamins, minerals and nutrients. When cooked, leaves lose their hairs and make an early season nutritional treat. Tea used as a whole body tonic. Also a pollinator friendly dye plant and fiber source for cordage and cloth. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead plant.
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Herb - Parsley - Moss Curled
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The classic curled parsley, with dark green leaves and compact structure, this vigorous producer has a subtle, sweet flavor and is packed with vitamins and iron pulled up by its long tap root. Valued by herbalists for centuries as a digestive aid and diuretic. We think a handful of raw parsley each day will keep the doctor away and do amazing things for your skin. Attracts butterflies and good companion for peas, peppers, tomatoes and carrots. Leaves and root also are a good fabric dye source.
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Herb - Rama Tulsi - Holy Basil
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3,000 year-old aromatic medicinal and sacred ceremonial plant, aka “Holy Basil”, treasured in the Ayurvedic tradition. Well-characterized mint family member adaptogen that rebalances a host of disorders, including inflammation, arthritis, heart disease, and cancer. Immune system enhancer. Typically ingested as a tea from leaf or flowers, or by essential oil application. Pollinator friendly dye plant that is a good companion for nightshades. Prized permaculture, polyculture and homestead container plant.
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Herb - Skullcap
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Native perennial wildflower. Leaves and blossoms valued for calming, tonifying and strengthening nervous system. Aka Huang Qin and Ban Zhi Lian in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Small blue trumpet-like flowers. Pollinator friendly. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead favorite.
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Herb - Summer Savory
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Traditionally used to season beans, this versatile heirloom culinary herb works well with poultry, game, sausage, fish and in salads. A key ingredient in the “Herbs de Provence” blend. Treat as a hardy annual in our climate, and enjoy the masses of purple blossoms that attract the honey bees in summer. Highly valued by herbalists as a medicinal. Excellent companion plant for beans.
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Herb - Thyme
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Thyme is one of those versatile plants that is a blessing in the garden. In addition to its well-known culinary talents, it is valued a medicinal herb and an attractive creeping plant used in rock gardens and along borders. Honeybees and butterflies LOVE its charming petite pink and purple flowers. Excellent companion plant.
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Herb - Tobacco
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Tall herbaceous annual, native to the New World. Traditionally prized as a ceremonial smoke medicine plant - one of four sacred plants, together with sweet grass, cedar and sage. These sacred plants are used in ceremony to connect consciously with Spirit on Earth. Leaves also used medicinally and as dye plant.
Pollinator friendly plant with fragrant flowers; good companion plant
for brassicas. Nicotine in plant also useful as insecticide. Valued
permaculture, polyculture, homestead plant.
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Herb - Zi Cao - Asian Stone Seed - Gromwell - Arnebia
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Aka "Gromwell," "Stone Seed" or "Arnebia", this Asian counterpart to Western Gromwell is a well characterized and treasured Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perennial herb. The root is associated with the Heart and Liver meridians and has sweet and cold properties. Medicinal roots are harvested in year 3. Pollinator friendly dye plant. Good permaculture, polyculture, homestead plant.
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Hollyhock, Tea Kettle Mtn. Mix
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Our favorite color mix of this elegant, easy-to-grow heirloom. Hollyhocks are a cottage garden favorite for good reason: they grow to 6 ft on stout stems with a profusion yellow, pink, red and white flowers that bloom July-September. Bees, butterflies and humming birds adore them, AND the flowers are edible, make beautiful dyes and both leaves and flowers have valuable medicinal properties. Long tap root pulls up body-nourishing minerals and micro-nutrients. A permaculture, polyculture and homestead favorite. What’s not to like?
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Larkspur
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Lovely, deep blue annual, native to Southern Europe, does well in our climate. Fern-like lacy leaves and 1.5 to 2ft. tall spikes covered in deep blue flowers adored by hummingbirds and butterflies. Blooms late spring through summer. Fabulous fresh-cut or dried flower.
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Lupine - Russell
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This hardy perennial is well worth your while. A nitrogen-fixing, easy-to-grow legume that self-sows readily and enjoys cool summers, this tall (30-in) plant provides long-lasting flower spikes in luscious shades of salmon, lavender, blue, orange and lemon beginning in the second year. Bees and butterflies love them. Blue lupines in particular make useful fabric dye. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden favorite.
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Marigold-Tall
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This hardy self-seeding heirloom, aka “African Marigold” is a must-have for every home garden. Prolific, pollinator friendly, long-lasting bright orange flowers make great companion plants, cut flowers and fabric dye.
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Morning Glory, Heavenly Blue
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Aptly named standard from the 1920’s. Massive quantities of trumpet-like blue flowers are truly heavenly on a dewy morning in summer. This vine loves to climb so provide a fence, trellis or poles. The heart-shaped leaves are attractive even before the flowers. It makes a beautiful temporary hedge or can cover up some unsightly object. Super pollinator-friendly. (No shipping to to Arizona or Arkansas)
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Nasturtium
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This heirloom strain of a trailing perennial from tropical America, grown in the North as an annual, is possibly a gardener's best friend. They make an excellent companion plant, drawing insect pests away from a variety of food plants, the young leaves and flowers provide beauty, flavor and nutrients to summer dishes, they are easy to grow and long-blooming, and hummingbirds love them. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden favorite.
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Pea - Sugar Snap
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One of the world’s best snacks right off of the vine and a great hit with kids. These plump sweet peas are eaten pod and all. The vines grow 5-6’ tall and need support.
Nitrogen-fixing legume. Benefits from bacterial inoculant (included).
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Pea - Sugar Snow
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We love this heirloom, first described in the 1890‘s. Plants are Vigorous and prolific heirloom, producing large, deliciously sweet tender pods you can eat right off the vine. Also wonderful steamed or stir-fried. Nitrogen fixing legume. Benefits from bacterial inoculant (included). .
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Pepper, Sweet - Paprika Hungarian Boldog
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True Hungarian paprika, with a spicy sweet robust flavor and touch of heat. Makes a beautiful red spice when ground, great for cooking or in a shaker on the table. Loaded with carotenoid antioxidants and vitamin A for enhancing healthy cell development and eyesight. Chopped fresh paprika also makes a pretty yellow fabric dye.
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Poppy - California
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This hardy poppy is a beautiful, easy to grow long-blooming wildflower. Self seeds readily to produce masses of pollinator friendly bright orange blossoms. A dynamic mineral accumulator due to the plant's tap root, bringing nutrients up to the leaves which,when young are a delicious source of nutrients. The whole plant can be used for dying. Treasured medicinal for calming the nervous system. Valued permaculture, polyculture and homestead plant.
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Poppy - North Fork Mix
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This is a mix of poppy seed from our Montana gardens. A mix of all sorts of hardy poppies that will go wild in your garden and come back on their own if you let them self-seed. A riotous bouquet of colors that blooms all summer. At home in a formal garden or naturalizing in a meadow. Young leaves make tasty and nutritious greens for salads and stir-fries. Lovely cut flowers. Also known as Shirley and Oriental Poppies. Plants are source for herbal remedies and fabric dyes. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead favorite.
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Rhubarb
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Treated as a fruit, this hardy, long-lived perennial heirloom vegetable is also highly valued as a medicinal and has been a garden staple for centuries. A deep rooted dynamic accumulator that loads the edible stalks up with vitamins (esp. vitamins B, C and K) and minerals (esp. calcium). Excellent source of fiber and antioxidants. Good companion plant to brassicas and useful dye plant. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden essential.
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Rocky Mountain Flax
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A classic native wildflower with multiple uses. Periwinkle blue flowers start blooming in late spring and don’t stop. Easy to grow, drought-resistant perennial that establishes itself readily. Valued as medicinal and fiber source for making cordage and baskets. Permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden favorite.
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Rose Campion
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Brilliant magenta flowers against soft, felted silver-grey foliage. A show stopper perennial native to northern Europe that blooms June-August starting in year 2. They look spectacular in solid plantings. Grows to 3' tall. Naturalizes readily. Valued homeopathic medicinal. Wonderful plant for the permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden.
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Snapdragon
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A garden favorite since the 1700’s. Native to the Mediterranean, Thomas Jefferson documented their growth in his experimental trial gardens. Cold-hardy plant that grows to 2-feet with a bright array of fragrant flowers in shades of yellow, orange and red that often are still blooming when the snow falls. Wonderful in flower arrangements. Pollinator friendly garden dye plant. Bonus: edible blossoms!
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Strawflower, Glacier Mix - Everlasting
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Easy to grow ever-lasting flowers adored by pollinators. Native to Australia, they are drought and heat-tolerant, producing a profusion of red, orange, yellow and magenta papery blooms all summer. Great fresh cut and dried flowers that won’t lose their color.
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Sunflower - Mammoth
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This Russian sunflower dates from 1888 and deserves the title “Mammoth”. It can grow 10' tall with 12" flowers. You can eat the seeds or they make an excellent natural bird feeder if left out for winter. Historically used by indigenous people as source of cooking oil. Just a great big old-fashioned sunflower that grows well in our northern climate. (No shipping to Iowa)
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Sweet Alyssum
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This low-growing annual produces a luscious carpet of delicate, white, fragrant, edible blossoms adored by butterflies and bees. Easy to grow and self-seeds readily. Excellent ground cover.
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Sweet Pea
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One of our absolute favorite heirlooms for the garden! A long-blooming riot of color with exquisite fragrance, it attracts pollinators all summer long. The long-stemmed flowers are ideal for cutting and, as a legume, it naturally fixes nitrogen in the soil. What could be better?
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Sweet William - Chesaw Mix
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Deliciously fragrant, this traditional perennial cottage garden plant provides masses of color in all shades of fuschia, pinks and white early in the summer. Pollinators love the clove-scented blooms which also make excellent, long-lasting cut flowers. Fabulous companion plant. This seed mix is from our favorite plants in our Chesaw trial garden. Great for the permaculture, polyculture and homestead garden.
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Zinnia - Big Mountain Mix
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This bushy long-blooming annual puts on a show of brilliant color all summer long. Native to Mexico, the plant is easy to grow and blooms until the frosts come. Excellent cut flowers adored by bees and butterflies.
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