The Heirloom Organics Farm Pack is designed for farms, large-scale storage, seed investment and for groups, large and small. This pack includes very large amounts of many vegetable, fruit, grain and legume varieties. The Heirloom Organics Non-Hybrid Farm Pack is the #1 selling large quantity non-hybrid seed set in the world. Whether you are supporting a commercial farm or simply storing a large quantity of seed for investment, the Heirloom Organics Non-Hybrid Farm Pack is the best value you can get. Many groups and organizations buy 2 or more Farm Packs to make sure they have MANY YEARS of seed supply for large groups of people, no matter what. The Farm Pack and Homestead Pack are "INVESTMENT GRADE" Seed Packs. For family use and storage try the Family Pack. For personal gardening and food security try the Seed Vault.

 

Farm Pack Seed List*  

The Homestead Pack is the SEED INVESTORS CHOICE. It is designed for up to 8 people with 1 Acre+ growing space or for bulk seed storage, secure investment and bartering. This is the perfect seed pack for a family that wants to have a LARGE garden this year and wants LOTS of extra seed for storage. Many families or groups buy 2 homestead packs to make sure they have MANY YEARS of seeds supply or barter currency no matter what. With the volatility of today’s financial markets and food supply chain, there is no better investment you can make than in seeds, the future of food supply. The Homestead Pack and Farm Packs are "INVESTMENT GRADE" Seed Packs. For family use, gardening and storage try the Family Pack. For personal gardening and food security try the Seed Vault.

 

The Homestead Pack contains varieties of high-nutrient vegetables, fruit, grains and legumes for up to 8 people with LOTs of seed left over for storage. All varieties are 100% non-hybrid, allowing you to save the seeds for future planting.

 

With our Seed Vault, growing your own survival garden becomes easy. Be assured, our seeds are not hybrid or genetically modified. You save your harvest seeds from this year and have more than enough to plant next year. You never have to buy seeds again! Not possible with hybrid or GM (genetically modified) seeds.

 

The Family Pack contains 30 varieties of high-nutrient vegetables, grains and legumes for approximately 4+ people for approximately 1+ year with LOTs to store. All varieties are 100% non-hybrid, allowing you to save the seeds for future planting. At 2.7LB weight and 94,000+ seed count, this pack is a must-have for securing your family's nutritional future. Many families buy 2 so that you can store one for years and use the other.

 

Grains are the single most important food in the world. From cereals to breads of all kinds, cakes, pies, porridges; for brewing beer and other beverages or even feeding livestock. The Heirloom Organics Non-Hybrid Grains Pack provides the most nutritious and delicious original grain varieties available. A healthy selection of traditional grains, prepared with the exclusive VAULT™ method of long-term storage preparation and sealed into a reclosable green pail. The Heirloom Organics Grains Pack provides whole grains that supply vitamin E and B vitamins such as folic acid, as well as minerals like magnesium, iron, and zinc. Every sustainable garden plan should include a healthy supply of grains.

Soft White Wheat is a preferred wheat for flat breads, cakes, pastries, crackers and noodles and is grown primarily in the Pacific Northwest. It has a softer, milder taste than the hard wheats.

 

Flour from hard red wheat is considered “classic” whole wheat. While other varieties of wheat can be made into “whole wheat flour” this is the flour that gives bread a rich brown color and a nutty wheat flavor.

 

Oats have been cultivated for near 5,000 years. Oats are nourishing as they provide starch, vitamins, minerals and proteins. They also have some amount of low saturated fat. This is why oat is considered a beneficial food item.

 

Barley is a wonderfully versatile cereal grain with a rich nutlike flavor and an appealing chewy, pasta-like consistency.

 

The warm, earthy and subtly nutty flavor of flaxseeds combined with an abundance of omega-3 fatty acids makes them an increasingly popular addition to the diets of many a health conscious consumer.

 

Creamy like mashed potatoes or fluffy like rice, millet is a delicious grain that can accompany many types of food. Millet is one of the oldest foods known to humans and possibly the first cereal grain to be used for domestic purposes.

 

Rye is one of the most reliable and easy-to-grow grains. It is most often ground into flour and used to make hearty pumpernickel and rye breads. This seed can also be broadcast under knee high corn in early summer, or simply used as a cover crop in your garden.

 

Throughout Europe, "corn" has always been the generic name for any of the cereal grains; Europeans call corn maize, a derivative of the early American Indian word mahiz. Corn is not only a popular food, but the foundation of many by-products including bourbon, corn flour, cornmeal, corn oil, cornstarch, corn syrup, corn whiskey and laundry starch.

 

The Heirloom Dry Beans Pack from Heirloom Organics features the most common, easy-to-grow, nutritious varieties of drying beans available. America was built on beans and America will thrive on beans! Pinto beans are excellent for baked and bbq beans and Mexican refried beans. Black beans are a Tex-Mex favorite and Great Northern White beans are some of the best stew bean you can find. Lima Beans are a southern delicacy, while Fava beans and Garbanzo beans, or Chickpeas are Mediteranian favorites. The Heirloom Dry Beans Pack provides a delicious selection of beans which are 100% heirloom, non-hybrid (open pollinated) and non-GMO (genetically modified). For long-term food storage and sustainability, the Heirloom Dry Beans Pack is your choice.

 

Pinto Beans are the most common bean in the United States and northwestern Mexico. Most often eaten whole in broth or mashed and refried or as BBQ beans, Pork and Beans and Chile con Carne. The young pods may also be used as green beans. This type of bean is also referred to as "Cowboy Beans" in Texas.

 

Great Northern White Beans (Navy Beans) have a delicate, distinctive flavor, are particularly popular in Britain and the US and are featured in such dishes as baked beans and even pies , as well as in various soups, stews and even chowders. Very flavorful and high in dietary fiber.

 

The small, shiny Black Turtle Bean is especially popular in Latin American cuisine though it can also be found in Cajun and Creole cuisines of South Louisiana and southern Mexican dishes as well. A strong, earthy flavor with a sweet hint of mushroom. Used for soups, side dishes, bean dips, and salads.

 

Lima Beans (Butter Beans) are delicious, creamy and an excellent source of protein and cholesterol-lowering fiber. Lima beans can help you balance blood sugar levels while providing steady, slow-burning energy. Named after the city of Lima in Peru, these beans first appeared 0ver 2000 years ago in the Andes mountains.

 

Black-Eyed Peas (Cow Peas) are an very nutritious and flavorful bean popular throughout the South. Rich in vitamin A and Calcium. Small, creamy-white with a black mark at the sprouting point. They have a pleasant savory flavor. They are thinner skinned than most beans, so they cook faster, without the need to presoak.

 

Fava Beans (Broad Beans) have a long tradition of cultivation in Old World farming, being among the most ancient plants in cultivation and also among the easiest to grow. The can be eaten while still young and tender, enabling harvesting to begin as early as the middle of spring. The young leaves of the plant can also be eaten either raw or cooked like spinach.

 

The Heirloom Organics Kitchen Herb Pack is our most popular specialty pack. The most common, easy-to-grow 100% non-hybrid varieties for your kitchen. Every sustainable kitchen garden needs a good supply of culinary herbs for flavoring and spicing as well as preserving the foods you grow. The Heirloom Organics Non-Hybrid Kitchen Herb Pack brings it all together in one convenient selection for culinary and gardening pleasure.

 

Warm weather annual develops into an attractive, bushy plant. Grow in containers or flower borders. Used in pesto, tomato dishes, soups, fish and poultry dishes, fresh or as quick-frozen leaves. Full or partial sun.

 

Chives taste like sweet, mild onions. They complement most any dish except sweet ones. The flowers can also be eaten and look attractive when tossed with salads or used as a garnish. Chives have been added to foods for nearly 5,000 years!

 

Versatile spice indeed! Use leaves or seeds. Popular, easy to grow annual. Has a pleasantly aromatic and flavorful seed for use in potpourris and to flavor pastry, beans, stew, sausage, and fish. Distinctively flavored leaves are used in Latin and Southeast Asian dishes. Best with fowl, meats, and spicy dishes.

 

Florence Fennel A very versatile herb. Its leaves, stalks, seeds, roots and plant base or 'apple' are all used. It is grown for its delicious tender 'apple' which can be eaten raw or blanched along with its stalk when young. Its leaves and seeds have an anise like flavor.

 

Spicy and aromatic perennial, usually grown as an annual. Has square, branching stems and sometimes grows to the size of a small shrub. Likes to be sheltered in a warm, sunny spot. Protect from frost, and water sparingly.

 

An herb that grows wild in central and southern Italy and the rest of the Mediterranean countries. Has a much stronger flavor dry than fresh but just as good. However use less dry oregano, as the flavor is more concentrated. Used on pizza and in sauces as well as vegetables. Very popular in Sicily where it is often added to preserved olives. Easily grown in a pot.

 

Strong, vigorous, upright growing plant with long, attractive stems for bunching. Leaves are heavily curled, dark green and maintain their color well into the season. Has good grow back for several harvests.

 

Echinacea Angustifolia Americans may have used echinacea for more than 400 years to treat infections and wounds and as a general "cure-all." Today, people use echinacea to shorten the duration of the common cold and flu and reduce symptoms, such as sore throat (pharyngitis), cough, and fever. Many herbalists also recommend echinacea to help boost the immune system and help the body fight infections. Echinacea is well known for its anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-inflammatory properties.

 

Feverfew Used for centuries in European folk medicine as a remedy for headaches, arthritis, and fevers. The term feverfew is adapted from the Latin word febrifugia or "fever reducer."Feverfew is also used to treat menstrual irregularities, labor difficulties, skin conditions, stomach aches, and asthma.

 

Lavender Lavender has been used for centuries as an herbal remedy, and does indeed appear to have antiseptic, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory, anti-convulsive, and last but certainly not least - anti-depressant properties. Internally, Lavender is believed to be of benefit for a multitude of problems, including stress, anxiety, exhaustion, irritability, headaches, migraines, insomnia, depression, colds, digestion, flatulence, upset stomach, liver and gallbladder problems, nervousness, loss of appetite, and as a breath freshener and mouthwash. Inhaling the essential oil in some cases has been reported to work as well as narcotics for inducing relaxation and sleep, easing symptoms of depression, and reducing headache pain.

 

Fennel Fennel has through history been considered an appetite depressant, and as such, a weight loss aid. Recommended a Tea to increase the flow of milk in nursing mothers. Menopausal women may want to try it to ease the associated symptoms. Fennel Teas, or Fennel Water have been used throughout history to break up kidney stones, quiet hiccups, prevent nausea, aid digestion, prevent gout, purify the liver, reverse alcohol damage to the liver, and treat jaundice. For babies, it is said to to relieve colic and flatulence, and to expel worms. It may be effective when used along with conventional treatments in prostate cancer (and it is definitely worth trying, but consult with your doctor first). The tea can also be gargled as a breath freshener and applied as an eye wash. Alternatively, the leaves can be dried, pulverized into a powder, and made into Capsules for when it's not convenient to utilize a tea.

 

Lemon Balm Lemon balm, a member of the mint family, is considered a "calming" herb. It was used as far back as the Middle Ages to reduce stress and anxiety, promote sleep, improve appetite, and ease pain and discomfort from indigestion. Today, lemon balm is often combined with other calming, soothing herbs, such as valerian, chamomile, and hops, to help promote relaxation.

 

Stinging Nettle Stinging nettle has been used for hundreds of years to treat painful muscles and joints, eczema, arthritis, gout, and anemia. Today, many people use it to treat urinary problems during the early stages of an enlarged prostate (called benign prostatic hyperplasia or BPH), for urinary tract infections, for hay fever (allergic rhinitis), or in compresses or creams for treating joint pain, sprains and strains, tendonitis, and insect bites.

 

Melons are nature's sweet and juicy Dessert and YOU can grow them in your own yard. The Heirloom Organics Non-Hybrid Fruit Pack features 3 sweet and juicy watermelon varieties and 3 succulent and flavorful melon varieties. No home garden is complete without nature’s dessert! The Non-Hybrid Fruit Pack brings all the easy-to-grow, sweet and tasty fruit right to your garden.

 

Iroquois Cantaloupe is an early variety melon that produces an abundance of 4-7 lb. round-to-oval shaped fruits with a gray-green coarsely-netted skin and a deep ribbed salmon-orange flesh. This particular variety is wonderfully sweet, easy to grow, is disease-resistant, and does exceptionally well in the Midwest and Northeast.

 

Light green flesh with a delicious, sweet flavor makes this melon a favorite. Keeps well when stored in a cool place. High in vitamins A, B, and C. Should be planted only where growing season is long.

 

Jubilee produces a large light green watermelon with very distinct dark green stripes somewhat reminescent of a rattlesnake's markings. The watermelons are large, averaging about 40 pounds in weight and have a very tough rind that is nearly an inch thick. Due to its tough, thick rind, Jubilee is an excellent commercial watermelon and holds up amazingly well during shipping The flesh is a lovely bright red in color dotted with large black "stipple" marked seeds and has a very fine texture and a very palatable sweet flavor that is superior to most other varieties of watermelons.

 

Plant produces good yields of large 40 to 75 lb watermelons. It has very flavorful bright red flesh. Tough black-green rind helps fruit from bruising. Plant has large leaves which help prevent sunburning of watermelons. This is the Blue Ribbon Winner strain! An excellent mid-season variety for home gardeners and market growers.

 

Chili peppers originated in the Americas. Peppers are prized as a spice, as a vegetable, and as medicine. Chilis love heat and sunshine and will do well as field crops or in containers. High in vitamins A, B and B6. Chili was indigenous to Central, South America and the West Indies with 5000 thousands years of history, as the first cultivation of chili was around 3000 BC.

 

Anaheim or New Mexican peppers are medium-hot peppers that are a major feature of Southwestern cooking and are frequently used to make decorative wall hangings.

 

Called poblanos when fresh and anchos when dried, these glossy, flattened chiles are dark, shiny green, ripening to brilliant red, and are usable at either stage. They are 4-5 in. long, distinctively heart shaped, and generally mild.

 

The 6x3/4-inch red wrinkled fruits are very hot. Dried and crushed they are sprinkled on noodles and pizza and used to make fiery hot sauces.

 

One of the hottest peppers, this pepper produces high yields in 90 days. The pepper has an average heat rating for a Habanero. (HOT!!) The pod is typically 1.5 inches long. Harvest when it turns a bright orange.

 

Pods are 3.5 inches long by 1.5 inches wide at shoulder, tapering to a blunt tip, cylindrical, thick walls, smooth, with well filled seed cavity. Dark olive green fruit turning red at maturity. Plants are upright, 26-36 inches tall, with pendant fruit. Produces continuous yields of peppers.

 

The Heirloom Organics Non-Hybrid Greens Pack is a collection of some of the most nutritious greens available. Providing a high concentration of nutrients with fast-growing, easy-to-grow varieties for fresh eating in green salads or as excellent cooked vegetables. The Heirloom Organics Non-Hybrid Greens Pack even includes Amaranth (a highly nutritious vegetable leaf from South America, often grown as grain as well). The Greens Pack contains 7 varieties of the most nutritious greens.

 

Amaranth is a broadleaf plant that could be mistaken for soybeans early in the growing season by someone driving past a field. Late in the season, however, there is no mistaking this striking, tall crop which develops brilliantly colored grain heads producing thousands of tiny seeds. Amaranth was a major food of the Aztecs and earlier American cultures, having been domesticated thousands of years ago.

 

One of the most nutritious of all greens. Collards are extremely popular in the South, and their popularity is growing rapidly in all other regions. Plants are easy to grow, tolerant of heat and cold and very rich in vitamins and minerals. The juicy leaves are delicious boiled, steamed, or as an addition to salads.

 

A cold hardy delicate, flavorful variety of kale. Its leaves are frilly and oak leaved in shape and red veined, greenish purple in color. Ideal for fall crops. Enjoy its greens fresh in salads or steamed and stir fried alone or with other vegetables.

 

This heirloom garden kale has finely curled, blue-green leaves. It is compact and very attractive, as well as highly nutritious. It is used fresh in salads, on sandwiches and steamed cooked. This variety better withstands colder weather than other varieties.

 

Kohlrabi is a hardy biennial member of the cabbage family. It was first recorded being grown in northern Europe in 1554, and had reached North America at least by the early 1800's. The name is a German word meaning cabbage (kohl) - turnip (rabi), describing the turnip-like enlargement of the stem above the soil. Leaves stand out like spokes from the edible portion, the rounded stem section, which is commonly referred to as a bulb (even though botanically it is not a bulb). Although it is quite exotic looking, it is merely a different horticultural form of the same species to which common cabbage, kale, broccoli, and cauliflower belong. Its flavor is similar to that of turnips but milder and sweeter.

 

Calorie for calorie, leafy green vegetables like spinach with its delicate texture and jade green color provide more nutrients than any other food. Spinach is becoming more popular as evidenced by increases in consumption of both fresh (salads) and processed spinach. It is high in vitamins and minerals. Spinach reaches edible maturity quickly and thrives best during the cool, moist seasons of the year. During periods of warm weather and long days, spinach will produce seed. This cold-hardy crop can with-stand hard frosts with accompanying temperatures as low as 20 0F. Spinach can be overwintered for early spring production in many areas of the state.

 

There are a great many (around 7500) tomato varieties grown for various purposes. Heirloom tomatoes are becoming increasingly popular, particularly among home gardeners and organic producers, since they tend to produce more interesting and flavorful crops. The Heirloom Organics Heirloom Tomato Pack contains many of the most popular Heirloom Varieties available today. You will enjoy the colors and flavors of the old original varieties in your own garden.

 

The Tomato is an herbaceous, usually sprawling plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousins potatoes, chili peppers, tobacco, eggplant and the poisonous belladonna. It is a perennial, often grown outdoors in temperate climates as an annual. The tomato is native to South America. The tomato is now grown worldwide for its edible fruits, with thousands of cultivars having been selected with varying fruit types, and for optimum growth in differing growing conditions. Cultivated tomatoes vary in size from tomberries, about 5mm in diameter, through cherry tomatoes, about the same 1–2 centimetres (0.4–0.8 in) size as the wild tomato, up to "beefsteak" tomatoes 10 centimetres (4 in) or more in diameter.

 

A very old variety. The plants are large and open with small oval fruit, 1 x 1¼ inches, that taste mild and sweet. There are typically 8 to 10 fruits per cluster, some late fruits have slight neck. Very productive.

 

From seed to your table in less than a month, indoors or out. Make sure your family has the Heirloom Organics Salad Pack for your health and well-being.

 

Arugula is an aromatic, peppery salad green. It is also known as roquette, rocket, rugula and rucola, and is very popular in Italian cuisine. It grows wild in Asia and all over the entire Mediterranean --- and has been known to be cultivated and enjoyed in places as exotic as the north of Sudan. In Roman times arugula was grown for both its leaves and the seed. The seed was used for flavoring oils.

 

Bibb lettuce, also known as limestone lettuce, is a variety of butterhead lettuce with loose, delicate, and crisp but tender leaves. It was first grown by Jack Bibb, a Kentucky amateur horticulturist, in the late 1800s, which is where its name originated. However, it is also known as limestone lettuce due to the limestone found in the soil where it was first grown.

 

The flavor of Oakleaf is distinctive. It has a slight mineral component combined with nuttiness, and rather than the tang of Romaine, there's the suggestion of white wine. The leaves are thin and tender. If you use it in sandwiches, they should be eaten shortly after preparation, as the lettuce will wilt otherwise. If you use it in salad, you probably want to use a thin dressing, rather than burden the leaves with a heavy cream. The lettuce's flavor will go well with the usual salad accessories (tomato, cucumber, scallions) and is a good complement for almonds or walnuts, too. The color and shape of Oakleaf make it useful as a garnish or as a base for presenting various other foods, but it would be a shame to leave the leaves uneaten.

 

Add a splash of color to salads! Reddish-bronze leaves are long, deeply lobed and have a delicate flavor and texture. Slow bolting variety allows for a long harvesting period.

 

Named for Parris Island off the coast of South Carolina, this old favorite Romaine deserves a try by any lettuce lover. 'Crunchy leaves', 'creamy white heart', and 'vigorous' are just a few of the words that describe this variety.