Crops

Chicory

• Green Frisee Endive - Very Finely cut curly leaves

Collards

• Champion

Favas

• Casine (Italian Farm House) - Big, fat favas with wonderful flavor. They are available only in June
• Sweet Lorane - A small fava with tightly packed pods. It's later than the larger favas, and is available for just a few weeks in July.

Kale

• Redbor - Bold magenta, with a smooth and crisp flavor.
• White Russian - Very hardy and water tolerant. Dissected leaves are delicious and flavorful.

Sorrel

• Garden Sorrel

Starts

Beets

• Beet Mix - A generous mix of beets starts to transplant and enjoy

Broccoli

• Diplomat - A wonderfully productive dark green Broccoli. Large flavorful heads develop, followed by abundant side shoot florets.

Catnip

• Catnip - This strain has been endorse by cats from coast to coast including Mr. Kitters, Gabriel, the late lamented Jasmine, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Fluffy, Lillian, and so many others

Celery

• Giant Red - More powerful flavor than green celery. The hearts are pink and cream colored.

Chard

• Rainbow Mix - Red, yellow, pink, and white stems, green and red leaves, great flavor.

Chives

Fennel

• Parma

Herbs

• Wild Fennel - This non-bulbing fennel is grown for the intensely flavored leaves, flowers, and seeds.

Kohlrabi

• Early Purple Vienna
• Early White Vienna

Lettuce

Marjoram

Onions, Early

• Catawissa Top-setting - Heirloom topsetting and multiplying red onion, harvested as a spring onion.

Onions, Full Season

• Onion Mix - A generous pot of mixed onion varieties, for transplanting

Oregano

• Greek Oregano - Slightly more Refined
• Italian Oregano - Definitely more robust

Parsley

• Curly "Darki"
• Italian

Peas, English

• Little Marvel

Peas, Snap

• Dwarf Grey Sugar - Pretty plants with purple flowers, tender pods

Sorrel

• Garden Sorrel

Spigariello

• Foglia Riccia - Curly leaf variety.

Tomato, Big Heirloom

• Big Rosy - Very large, pink, fantastic flavor, a little earlier and therefore better for the Northwest than German Pink.
• Brandywine, Suddoth - Large pink beef-steak type, rich, intense tomato flavor.
• Cherokee Purple - Unique dusky rose color, flavor rivals Brandywine.
• Cuore di Bue - "Ox Heart" tomato. Seed from northern Italy
• Nostrano - A perfect round red tomato. Seeds came from a tomato purchased at a farmers market in Turino.
• Prudens Purple - One of those ugly, odd-shaped heirlooms with amazing flavor. This is the earliest of the big purple heirlooms.
• Rosalie's Early Orange - Early irregular heart-shaped orange fruit. Sweet, juicy, well-balanced flavor.

Tomato, Cherry

• Aunt Ruby's German Green Cherry - A tiny version of the heirloom beefsteak tomato. Bright green and very flavorful.
• Be My Baby - A new open-pollinated variety similar to Sweet Baby Girl.
• Bi-Color - Yellow and red stripes, 1-2", superb taste like "Big Rainbow."
• Black Cherry - It is not a plum, but a perfectly round cherry with classic black tomato flavor, sweet yet rich and complex. Fruit picks clean from the stem and is produced in abundance on vigorous, tall plants.
• Black Pear - A dark tomato the same size and shape as Yellow pear and red fig.
• Galina - A Siberian heirloom. We have been saving and replanting this seed (originally from a seed exchange at an Oregon Tilth meeting) for five years. Productive, sweet, sunshine yellow fruit. This plant keeps going well into fall and can even stand a light frost.
• Gobstopper - Early yellow cherry with green interior, fruity and sweet.
• Green Doctors - A tasty green cherry tomato. A spontaneous mutation of the variety Dr. Carolyn that occurred in the garden of Amy Goldman of New York. Named Green Doctors for both Carolyn and Amy and it's also the name of a well known trout fly.
• Green Grape - The distinctive, 1?, yellowish green fruits are borne in clusters of 6-12 that resemble large muscat grapes. Fruit has a translucent pale-green on the inside. This variety has become popular its unique attractiveness and great flavor.
• Italian Ice - Sugary sweet and bursting with juicy flavor. Clusters of 1-1 1/2" snack-sized fruits ripen from green to ivory white, becoming uniquely sweet and mild tasting. We want a true white tomato for our colorful cherry mix. Snowberry is good and will stay in the lineup, but it's pale yellow not white. We hope Italian Ice will fill the niche.
• Pearly Pink - Crisp, incredibly flavorful cherry tomatoes that are bright pink and perfect for snacking. The vines produce very well.
• Pomodora Dattero - "Date Tomato." We got this seed from tomatoes we bought at a farmers market in Padua, Italy in 2004. Although it was January, the tomatoes were delicious. The plants can be pulled right before frost and hung in a sheltered place and the tomatoes will continue to ripen. We have been saving and regrowing the seed since then. A vigorous plant with abundant bright red fruit. The Italians think they are shaped like dates, but if you want to call this a grape tomato, it's ok with us.
• Purple Cherry - Another gift seed from a Tilth meeting. This is the most rambunctious plant, which is why a little pruning and sucker pinching is recommended. The fruit is a dusky pink, a little larger than most cherry tomatoes. It has an excellent true tomato taste. It makes a great fresh sauce - no need to peel, just put them in a food processor. The foliage has a distinctive, pleasant aroma.
• Snowberry - The only white-fleshed Cherry Tomato I know of, Snowberry offers an exciting new look for the plate. These 1-inch fruits are creamy yellow on the outside, pure white within, and boast a full-bodied, sweet Tomato tang that everyone in the family will love.
• Sungold - Everyone's favorite - intensely flavored bright, golden orange color. Hybrid.
• Yellow Pear - We chose it because it beat out 25 other strains of yellow pear in a taste testing at Seed Savers. "Endless supply of 1 1/2" pear tomatoes with great taste."

Tomato, container varieties

• Heartland - Compact 30" plants produce delicious 8 oz. tomatoes until frost. The other best yielding variety.
• Tiny Tim - A heavy yielder with clusters of fine flavored, red fruit that are about ½ inch in diameter. When grown in pots, this variety only grows ten to twelve inches tall and 14 inches across.
• Viva Italia - A Roma tomato for containers

Tomato, Paste

• Black Plum - The size and shape of ordinary Roma tomatoes, but very dark in color and with a fantastic rich flavor.
• Italian Heart - A Gales Meadow Farm exclusive in our area. The seeds come from an Italian family who settled in the Shenandoah Valley. Pink, good size, pointy blossom end, true Italian flavor.
• Polish Linguisa - The best red paste tomato, large fruit with great flavor. Heirloom.
• San Marzano - For canning, paste, and a killer spaghetti sauce, it's hard to beat 'San Marzano', a sought-after heirloom from the Campania region of southern Italy.
• Striped Roman - Long and pointed, red with orange stripes, meaty substance, and great flavor. Good for sauces or slicing.

Tomato, Slicing

• Chocolate Stripes - Very large, indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants that yield a plentiful crop of 3-4 inch, mahogany colored with dark, olive green-striping (similar to black zebra). Fruits have delicious, complex, rich, sweet, earthy tomato flavors. Produces well into the autumn A great sandwich tomato and salad tomato.
• Early Girl - An Oregon classic. Easy to grow, fairly early, very productive. There are those who think that the taste is inferior, but I think they must be growing them in poor soil or picking them unripe. It's a good tasting tomato.
• Garden Peach - A medium sized yellow. A great color and flavor combination with Green Zebra and Early Girl or Stupice.
• Green Zebra - Medium -sized, light green with bright yellow stripes when ripe. This tomato won over seven others in a tomato tasting at Gales Meadow Farm in 2006.
• Japanese Black Trifele - In spite of its name, this is a Russian variety. The size and shape of a pear, brown-red color, and rich flavor.
• Julia Child - The tall, indeterminate, potato-leaf plant produces lots of 4-inch, deep-pink, lightly-fluted, beefsteak fruits with robust flavors and firm, juicy flesh. Named as a tribute to the French Chef
• Mahogany Garnet - A new cross between Black Russian and Green Zebra, it is a rare mahogany-garnet tomato with faint dark green stripes. Its determinate vines produce loads of 8-ounce gems with a mildly tart yet sweet taste and a tender thin skin.
• Marmande Extra-Early - The finest of the early Marmande types from Europe. 6 to 8 ounce fruits are not heavily ribbed like most Marmande types but produce exquisitely flavored and beautiful fruits. Medium growth habits. Semi-determinate.
• Paul Robeson - A medium sized brick-colored tomato from Russia, named in honor of the famous American singer. Distinctive sweet flavor.
• Red Lightening - Red Lightning' loads up with brilliant red 2 1/2-3" fruits that are consistently covered with "hand painted" yellow stripes. The flavor is sweet, tangy and with a rich aroma. Vigorous plants grow 5' tall, producing tomatoes continuously until fall.
• Tiger Tom - One of the first to ripen, 6 oz. fruits with yellow-orange stripes on red skin. Sharp, sweet flavor.
• Topaz - Chinese introduction. Beautiful and sparkling, 1-3 ounce fruit. Light yellow with golden speckles. Mild tasting, firm and good for snacking or salads. Incredibly productive.
• Violet Jasper - They have pretty violet-purple fruit with iridescent green streaks. Fruit weigh 1-3 ounces, are smooth and have good tasting, dark purplish-red flesh. Very high yield.
• Wapsipinicon Peach - Heavy producer of 2" peach-shaped fuzzy yellow fruits. Sweet excellent flavor. Named after the Wapsipinicon River in northeast Iowa. Winner of Seed Saver's 2006 Heirloom Tomato Tasting. Indeterminate, 80 days from transplant.