Culinary and Medicinal Herbs:

(New) Cilantro - A must for any herb garden, cilantro is an easy going annual grown for both the leaves and the seeds. 150+ seeds (2 grams)

(New) Dill - Grown for both the aromatic leaves and seeds, dill can be direct sown in the garden in late spring and staggered for a continuous harvest. An easy to grow perennial that is treated like an annual in our climate. 150+ seeds (0.3 grams)

(New) Giant Italian Parsley - The flavourful flat leaf variety great for seasoning. An easy to grow hardy biennial, the leaves can harvested well into the colder months. Several hundred seeds (0.5 grams)

(New) Catnip - Plant for your cat or your favourite pollinators!  This perennial mint relative is clumping in nature and very easy to grow. 100+ seeds (0.2 grams) 

Tulsi - An Indian type of Basil, also known as Sacred Basil. The aromatic leaves are used not so much as a cooking spice but to make wonderful herbal teas. Leaves are used either fresh from the garden or dried. Very prolific and beautiful plants which keep on growing and flowering all summer and autumn. Bees love them! 100+ seeds (0.1 gram)

(New) Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) - A beautiful and hardy perennial native to Eastern North America. The large, purple, cone-shaped blossoms attract lots of bees and pollinators, and song birds love the small seeds produced in the fall. The roots are used medicinally as an immune booster. Several hundred seeds (1 gram)

(New) Lemon Balm - A perennial member of the mint family with sweetly lemon scented leaves. Great in teas, both the hot and iced varieties. Sow the tiny seeds on the surface of the soil and keep moist as they need light to germinate. 100+ seeds 

(New) Chinese Skullcap (Scutellaria barbata) - 

(New) Japanese Catnip (Schizonepeta tenuifolia) - A valued herb in traditional Chinese medicine. An annual member of the mint family, it’s easy to grow and reaches a size of 2 feet in hight, topped with beautiful purple flowers not unlike lavender. The whole herb is very aromatic. 

Milk Thistle - Striking white and green mottled leaves and purple flowers. The seeds contain the compound silymarin and are traditionally used as a liver tonic. Annual. 100 seeds (2 grams)  

Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) - A hardy perennial member of the mint family (Lamiaceae). This medicinal grows to between 3 and 6 feet and produces small purple flowers much loved by bees. Several hundred seeds (0.2 grams) 

Flowers:

(New) Cosmos - One of the easiest annual flowers. The seeds can be direct sown in spring wherever you want them to grow. The plants reach up to 6 feet tall with fine, ferny foliage and lots of pink and white blossoms which keep on blooming until the frost. Several hundred seeds (1 gram) 

(New) Havana Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) - These are beautiful, striking annuals with long leaves and pink tubular flowers atop 5-7 foot stems. The tiny seeds require light to germinate, sow them indoors in a tray on the surface of the soil and keep the surface moist until they sprout. Several hundred seeds

(New) Giant Imperial Larkspur - An annual relative to delphiniums. Beautiful tall spikes of flowers in shades of blue and purple. A must for cut flowers. Several hundred seeds (0.25 grams)

(New) Peruvian Cherry - A decorative relative to Chinese lanterns. Tall spreading plants with decorative seed pods, great for drying and fall displays. Annual.

Mixed Calendula (Calendula officinalis) - a.k.a. Pot Marigold, English Marigold. This sunny annual is among the very easiest to grow. The flowers can be used in herbal teas or the petals added to salads. A mix of yellow, orange and white flowers. About 200 seeds (2 grams)

Mammoth Russian Sunflower - They live up to the name! Huge single heads on top of huge stalks, the biggest specimens in our sunflower forest this year were 12 feet tall with heads as big as garbage can lids. The large striped seeds are good people food or bird food. 100 seeds (10 grams)

Arikara Sunflower - Ranges from 4 to 8 feet in height, with both single and multi heads on sturdy stalks. Some seeds are black and some are grey with lots of diversity. 100 seeds (6 grams)

Bachelor's Buttons - Also known as Corn Flower. Easy growing annual, the blue and pink blooms are produced on 18" plants. An excellent nectar source for pollinators. 100+ seeds (0.5 grams)

1,000 Year Old Tobacco (Nicotiana rustica) - A very unique specimen. Seeds of this tobacco were discovered sealed with pitch in pottery in a native burial site near the Great Lakes. Amazingly a few seeds still germinated and grew into this beautiful, ancient looking plant. Broad fuzzy leaves are unlike modern varieties. Several hundred seeds  

Shasta Daisy - The classic daisy, developed in Northern California by botanist Luther Burbank around 1900. The name was inspired by the snowy, white peak of Mount Shasta. 200+ seeds (0.3 grams)  

Wildflower Mix - A mix of Yellow Coneflower, Woodland Sunflower, Black-eyed Susan and Liatris. Several hundred seeds (0.5 grams)

Mixed Hollyhocks - A hardy, tall growing biennial that will thrive with little care. Perfect for a slightly wild cottage garden. Collected from red, yellow, white, purple and pink flowers. Sow indoors in early spring for a May planting, or sow indoors in summer for a fall planting. About 120 seeds (1 gram)

Maltese Cross (Lychnis chalcedonica) - A low-maintainence perennial with red, cross-shaped flowers. The plants grow to 2-3 feet in hight and are very drought tolerant and easy going. Several hundred seeds (0.25 grams) 

Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis) - A beautiful and useful native biennial, all parts of Evening Primrose are edible and the young leaves and shoots are especially good is salads. Produces a showy spike of fragrant yellow flowers in it's second year that will last for most of the summer, followed by a crop of seeds in the fall adored by birds and humans alike. The tiny seeds contain high levels of essential fatty acids and can be eaten like flax seeds. Can self sow and naturalize. Several hundred seeds

Wild Lupin - Seeds from the lupins that grow wild around our farm. Harvested from a mix of purple, pink, white and multi-coloured flowers. Although lupins have become naturalized throughout eastern Canada, they’re actually native to the west coast. Hardy, nitrogen fixing perennials that attract lots of pollinators. Several hundred seeds (4 grams)

Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) - A hardy, vigourous native perennial, grows to 3 feet with sunny yellow cone shaped flowers perched on top of bristly stems from late June all the way through to October. A big attractant of bees and butterflies. Several hundred seeds 

Black Locust (Robinia pseudoaacacia) - A very useful tree native to the Appalachian Mountains, Black Locust has naturalized across much of eastern North America. This nitrogen-fizing member of the legume family is prized for it’s hard, rot-resistant wood which can last for decades as a fencing material and is hard to beat for firewood. A “pioneer species”, it’s one that can grow quickly in harsh, recently disturbed conditions and improve growing conditions for other species. The showy, fragrant flowers make amazing honey! Lots of potential value for coppicing and forestry, as a bee crop and as a restorative permaculture tree. The seeds require  100+ seeds (2 grams)