Certified organic
25 seeds/packet
Popular garden tomato ripens to reveal an intriguing pattern. Not all the best tomatoes are red. Great garden varieties come in all colors, shades, fades, and bands. This striking striped slicer doesn't belong in the zoo. Let it root around and become part of your garden landscape and salad plate, where its green and yellow stripes delight. Provide it with the support it needs to stand upright and proud, showing off its big clusters of pretty fruit. Then open the garden gates and share the bounty with friends and neighbors. Diversity should run free!

Green Zebra has a mildly tangy taste, with a firm exterior and tender interior. Indeterminate.

Certified Organic
25 seeds/packet
Sweet cherry tomatoes with a complex taste. Honey Drop is the cake of cherry tomatoes: an exceptionally sweet, well-flavored, and full-bodied tomato with substance. They are the ideal snacking tomato, small and mighty, with a fruity flavor and honey-like sweetness that beloved hybrid Sungold just can't match. Tevis and Rachel Robertson-Goldberg of Crabapple Farm in Chesterson, MA developed this variety, and we were introduced to it by our pal Jay Armour from Four Winds Farm in Gardiner, NY. He says of this tasty cherry, "I'm excited about having an open pollinated alternative to Sungold." Our stock has been selected for resistance to cracking, color, flavor, and disease resistance. In 2014, we tasted the Honey Drop alongside Sungold F1. 60% of our tasters preferred the sweet and smooth Honey Drop!

Honey Drop's earliness and flavor make it an excellent choice for those looking for a cherry tomato to grow year after year. Irresistible to all creatures who crave sweetness; protect from bears. Indeterminate.

25 seeds/packet
Kids love these tiny tomatoes!The most adorable–and sweet!–tiny tomatoes. This red currant type tomato produces an abundance of jewel-like, 1/4” fruits on long trusses. The indeterminate plants have a cascading habit that lends well to hanging baskets and tall containers. Low-supports may be needed. The miniature foliage and blooms are so pretty that they can even be used in bouquets. Excellent for fresh eating and garnishes, the fruits are mostly a bright red but occasional plants will produce golden fruits. A kid favorite! Introduced by Seed Saver’s Exchange. Indeterminate.

Certified organic
50 seeds/packet
Love pickles but think they're too much trouble? Not ready to take on canning? These prolific cukes have the perfect thick skin and crunchy toothsomeness that makes for the perfect pickle. Grow them and then try a simple refrigerator pickle recipe. Refrigerator pickles don't require any extra canning equipment or special jars. Our friend Margaret Roach, author of A Way to Garden, has a great recipe for refrigerator pickles on her blog; all you need is water, vinegar, salt, some spice, and a few homegrown cucumbers harvested when they are still young. Margaret writes, "think of these unprocessed pickles as a seasonal treat, a real rite of the harvest season."

Certified organic
25 seeds/packet
Slender pale-white slicing cucumber.
Silver is one of the noble metals. And just like the metal, this cucumber withstands heat, time, and weather. Precious silver and this delicious slicing cucumber share other important traits as well. Both are resistant: silver to corrosion and oxidation from moist air, and the cucumber to powdery mildews also caused by humid conditions. Its bitter-free foliage also deters cucumber beetles. Let this silver-skinned cuke illuminate your garden, brighten your salads, and remind you to reflect on the joys of growing your own food.

Bred at Cornell University in New York, this is a great slicer with a creamy-white thin skin and long, straight, uniform 6-8" fruits. This cucumber has a superb juicy, sweet, and mild taste and good crunch, and has been winning tasters over since its introduction. 

Sustainably Grown
25 seeds/packet
AKA Armenian Cucumber. Heat-tolerant, bitterness free.
Long, ribbed, striped cucumber-like fruits are tender, have an excellent mild flavor, and are free from bitterness that can beset regular cukes (these are technically melons). Untrellised, the fruits will curve into an S shape (hence the name). Fruits best harvested when 7-16" long.
With roots in Egypt and the Middle East, varieties of this delicious melon were domesticated and selected in Armenia as far back as the 15th century. The seeds traveled with Armenian immigrants to the United States in the late 1800s, and became a treasured symbol of home.

Certified organic
25 seeds/packet
Looks like a lemon but tastes like a cucumber.
Some heirlooms came about as novelties. Perhaps created from an accidental cross or a freak mutation or picked up by adventurous traveling seed savers, some of the most unusual heirlooms were saved because of their freak factor. This cuke looks like a lemon but tastes like a cucumber; a really good one! Though common in India, it is not often seen in American supermarkets. So: best to grow some yourself. Invite a little oddity into your garden and enjoy the tasty and bountiful results.

This unusual cucumber dates back to Samuel Wilson's (Mechanicsville, PA) catalog in 1894. It is consistently productive and mild, and looks beautiful sliced into rounds.

Certified organic
25 seeds/packet
No bitterness, even after a heatwave. After WWII, many Ukrainians emigrated to the Hudson Valley and Catskills region, where they soon built churches, summer resorts, and other spaces to share and preserve Ukrainian traditions. A former Ukrainian campground was where our seed company first started growing seed! Thanks to Ukrainian seed savers, this heat-resistant and never-bitter cucumber is still thriving, and a part of the history of this region is still alive. This is a straight, green slicing cucumber with slight ribbing and pale green speckles, which provides nice yields of uniform, 8" fruits.

Note from Hudson Valley Seed Co.: 10% of Ukrainian Slicing Cucumber Packet sales will be donated to the Ukrainian National Women's League of America.

Certified Organic
​​​​​​​500 seeds/packet
A crunchy rainbow-hued mix of carrots.Trying to trace the origins of the modern orange carrot is like looking through a kaleidoscope. Shapes and colors reflect and refract, and the more time you spend looking, the more they change. The carrot's geo-genetic story starts with a white and wild bitter root, touched by the sweet yellow sun of the Middle East, growing under purple mountains and bright vermillion sunsets, its seeds passed by thousands of hands of many hues. This prismatic mix reflects the colorful evolution of the carrot.

Certified Organic
100 seeds/packet
Boasts cold tolerance and high yields. Heirloom varieties are cherished, but the farmers and gardeners who developed them never intended their varieties to stand still in time. Organic Seed Alliance continues the long tradition of on-farm seed stewardship by working with farmers to breed new varieties and improve old ones. The result? Varieties, such as Abundant Bloomsdale Spinach, that excel in organic systems and have enough genetic diversity to be widely adapted. These, in turn, become the heirlooms of tomorrow!

An improved savoyed spinach that boasts cold tolerance and high yields. Best as an early spring crop or for fall harvests. Abundant Bloomsdale produces large, super-savoyed, substantial leaves. Grow as a mature spinach plant. Named after the Abundant Life Seed Foundation Farm, where this variety started in 2002.

Certified organic
30 seeds/packet
Perfect for large containers and small spaces.
This compact variety has all the perks of a great delicata: it's the first winter squash to ripen; it has sweet, firm flesh; and its flavor is exceptional. Though it is not as bush in habit as some zucchinis, the short internodes in its growth habit lead to a very compact form, making it suitable for growing in a large container or smaller garden space. (After its first flush of fruit set, it may start to vine a bit more, but these growing tips can easily be trimmed away, as they usually won't lead to additional squash.) Expect anywhere from 2-5 ripe fruits from each plant.

This unique squash is the product of a Cornell University breeding project lead by Molly Jahn and George Moriarty. Although the breeding of this variety was focused on agronomically important traits such as bush habit and powdery mildew resistance, Jahn talks about the breeding process as an art form. Thanks to Molly's successor at Cornell, Michael Mazourek, we are returning this variety to its roots by propagating seeds from the original breeding project, continuing to select for prolific production and healthy plants.
 

50 seeds/packet
White and purple speckled flat beans are a treat to look at and eat.Although it sounds frightening, there is nothing scaly, ferocious, or fire-breathing about this bean. The dragon has been tamed. The purple-streaked pods are tender, buttery, and smooth, with a palate-friendly flavor. It just looks ferocious, with its mottled exterior and its intimidating abundance. But, like all sheepish dragons, this one just wants to be accepted and loved. That's not hard to do: the flavor and beauty of this variety are as easy to adore as a sloppy friendly dragon lick.

These bush habit plants produce stringless purple-striped wax beans that are delicious for fresh eating and make great dry beans for soup.

Certified organic
30 seeds/packet
Delicious and convenient single-meal-sized keepers. Squashes were once too large, too bitter, and too seedy for humans to stomach. But mastodons had different tastes, giant molars, and bigger guts. Their stature also had a huge impact on the soil, creating disturbances that were ideal squash habitat. After the megafauna faded, it was humans who created a niche in their gardens in which squash could survive.

This delightful mini butternut was bred at Cornell University. It's a butternut for the smaller garden and the modest appetite. These little plants produce miniature butternut squashes, much more squat than the standard, but with excellent flavor and texture. A treat for those who thought they couldn't fit a winter squash into their gardens.

Certified Organic
250 seeds/packet
Giant heads of sweet, crispy, delicious oak/romaine leaves.So many of our favorite garden varieties are named after other nations: Polish tomatoes, Hungarian peppers, watermelons from Saskatchewan. When we talk about locally-grown food, we must remember that most seed has traveled thousands of miles and back again before landing in our gardens. The name of this exquisite lettuce, which is huge, sweet, and slow to bolt, means "Italian" in German: proof that gardens everywhere are cosmopolitan gathering spots of plants from around the globe.

Italienischer boasts stellar performance, great flavor, and huge proportions. This is our favorite "thin and eat" variety: the heads get so large that we harvest every other when they are spaced 10" apart to let the remaining ones reach their pull potential.

Certified organic
25 seed/packet
"After finding this New York heirloom featured on the cover of a 1934 Harris’ Seeds Catalog, we were intrigued. Here is what they had to say about it. "Outstanding 1934 Introduction. Extremely Large, Early and Very Prolific. We put it mildly when we say that those who tested this new pepper last year were extremely pleased with it. The immense size, earliness and heavy yield make King of the North a variety that will give enormous yields of fine fruit even here in the North. The plants are medium size, branching and literally covered with fruit. The flesh is thick, mild and sweet."

Sustainably Grown
50 seeds/packet
Delightful as an ornamental and an edible variety.
For the Swiss, peas are part of their national identity. Primitive garden peas were found during excavations beneath houses of the ancient Swiss lake dwellers, which date back to the Bronze and Stone Ages. Much later, but not too far away, Austrian monk-scientist Gregor Mendel used peas in his famous experiments to demonstrate the heritable nature of specific traits. These experiments led to an essential understanding of genetics that still informs seed savers and seed breeders today.Tall, robust vines double as an ornamental with large bi-colored flowers in shades of pink and burgundy. 5' vines produce high yields of 3-4" pale, sweet pods.

Certified organic
30 seeds/packet
Yellow and green striped zucchini. Seeds are biologically designed for travel. During the period of European colonization, they traveled farther and faster than they ever had before, as mariners brought seeds of American crops back to their homelands. Hundreds of years of selection later, seeds of many of these crops in new and varied forms re-crossed the Atlantic with immigrants. For eating, pick this variety at the dinghy stage rather than waiting for it to turn into a yacht. Saving seeds? Let it grow as big as a battleship.

This bush-type plant churns out squash that taste great. It's delicious sautéed on its own or in a ratatouille.