Organic heirloom vegetable plants
Endangered, local, and desert-adapted varieties
We focus on cultivars:
• Boarded on Slow Food's US Ark of Taste for exceptional flavor and risk of extinction
• Red listed as imperiled by the Renewing America's Food Traditions (RAFT) alliance
• Planted historically or anciently by the peoples of Arizona, the desert southwest, and Mexico
• Red listed as imperiled by the Renewing America's Food Traditions (RAFT) alliance
• Planted historically or anciently by the peoples of Arizona, the desert southwest, and Mexico
• Desert-adapted (more tolerant of heat, drought, and/or poor soil)
We will soon plant our monsoon crops for the Fall Harvest.
Check back here for photos, descriptions, and histories of these
endangered, desert-adapted, and regional heirlooms.
We'll have tomatoes, chile peppers, and much more!
Thank you for your support during the Spring 2010 Season.
We found homes for thousands of at-risk heirlooms, including 44 tomato varieties. (We will leave our tomato catalog online to provide you with descriptions and photos throughout the summer season. We may still have a very limited number of plants available at each market. You may continue to order online, but the catalog does not accurately reflect our inventory.) We also distributed 22 chile pepper varieties including 7 varieties of Chiltepines (the only wild chile native to Arizona, and the northernmost wild chile), Bhut Jolokia ("Ghost Chile," the hottest pepper on the planet), Cajamarca, Chimayo (RAFT-threatened, US Ark of Taste), Coban, Cochiti (RAFT-threatened), Del Arbol de Baja California Sur, Kori Sitakame, Mirasol, Negro de Valle, Ordoño, Patagonia (Arizona heirloom, RAFT-endangered), Pico de Pajaro (RAFT-endangered), Wenk's Yellow Hots (RAFT-threatened, US Ark of Taste), and a few more.
Please save your seeds to share with friends, family, neighbors, coworkers... let's keep these varieties going!
