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TURTLE TREE SEED OFFERS 
350 VARIETIES OF BIODYNAMIC 
VEGETABLE, FLOWER AND HERB SEEDS.

Turtle Tree seed operates as a workshop in a unique intentional community in
upstate New York where people with special needs and volunteers live and
work together.

THIS WEB PAGE is a supplement to our 32 page catalog. It notes any changes
to the printed mail order catalog. It lists bulk items, items on sale, new
items that did not make it into the catalog by printing time, and catalog
items that are in short supply as well as items that sold out. THIS PAGE
DOES NOT OFFER ON-LINE ORDERING YET. Ordering still needs to be done by
mail, telephone, or fax. Our full 32 page catalog of 350 varieties is
available free of charge upon request. Include your full name and mailing
address with your request.

SEND YOUR CATALOG REQUEST TO:

TURTLE TREE SEED 
CAMPHILL VILLAGE
COPAKE, NY 12516
FAX: 518-329-7955

Remember how a tomato used to taste years ago? Trying to recapture that elusive taste today is almost best done with your imagination! With tons of chemicals dumped on food plants and "specialty" breeding, breeding plants to withstand long periods crammed into a truck rather than to taste good, it's a wonder any vegetables have any taste at all. And never mind what pesticide residue can do to you...or to the ground water it seeps into...or to the workers who apply it! There are a million reasons to grow your own food. You know where it's been. You know what's been used to produce it. You're eating low on the food chain and using minimal resources for food production. Best of all is the time spent in the garden and the satisfaction of actually growing something. Working a garden is zenlike. Watching it grow, helping it along, nurturing is akin to the satisfaction of raising a child to maturity in a single season. And of course there's all those luscious tastes. The best way to start your garden is with Organic seeds. You know they're safe...and the highest-quality gardens start with the highest-quality seeds!

Heirloom Varieties

Another problem with modern agriculture is the frightening loss of seed/plant diversity worldwide. For every animal species that becomes extinct, and usually not without some fanfare, hundreds of plant species disappear! They are simply bred out of existence as "Big Agriculture" plants for profit ONLY. If a tomato variety can be bred to stay firm on a store shelf for an extra week, that will be the variety grown. THAT is why vegetables don't taste as you remember!! Fortunately, some organic farmers still "save seeds" and produce "heirloom varieties", varieties that have been the same for years, many of which are becoming scarce, and that DO taste as you remember. Try planting some of these...and be sure to save some seeds for next year!

Seeds below are limited in availability.  Orders MUST be placed by Friday, April 27th.

ALL seed packs listed below are saved, biodynamic and open pollinated.  A number of Biodynamic growers worked to provide us with quality seed.  All growers use Biodynamic practices as presented by Rudolf Steiner.  Some are certified Biodynamic by the Demeter Association.  Some are certified organic.  Some have chosen not to be certified, relying rather on trust and personal contact with their customers.  Cost for each pack is $2.50.

Veggies - $2.50 per pack

Beets - Feuer Kugel - Smooth-skinned round root.  The best beet we've ever tasted.  150 seeds per pack sows 15 ft.

Carrots - Minicor - Delicious smaller early carrot.  Touchon - Deep orange French Gourmet carrot.  Also available; Nantes Fancy, Rodelika & Scarlet Nantes.  Carrot varieties, 750 seeds per pack sow 25 ft.

Radishes - Sora - High-quality round red salad radish.  300 seeds per pack, sows 10 ft.

Cabbage - Marner Allfruh - Early green, small/medium heads, superb mild/sweet flavor.  Rodyna - Deep burgundy red, medium/large heads.  50 seeds per pack.

 

Kale - Judy's - Tall, hardy, vigorous, excellent taste.  Good Spring regrowth.  Also available; Lancinato & Red Russian.  200 seeds per pack sows 10 ft.

Lettuce - Mikola - Heavy, succulent, easy to grow!  Does well in Summer heat.  Red Salad Bowl - Frilly red leaves, large loose head.  Spring and Fall.  Oak Leaf - Tight rosettes of medium dark green leaves.  Victoria - Large French Canasta-type.  Dark green with heavy, open heads.  Others available too.  250 seeds per pack sows 15 ft.

Specialty Greens - Arugula - 300 seeds, sows 10 ft., Broccoli Raab, French Sorrel, Garden Cress.

Parsley - Moss Curled Parsley - Vigorous, productive, compact, high-yielding.  300 seeds per pack sows 10 ft.

Spinach - Butterflay - Quick-growing, late bolting.  300 seeds per pack sows 25 ft.

 

Bush Beans - Contender - Standard green.  Excellent yields of quality beans.  Provider - An old favorite, heavy yields of long, straight, tender beans.  1 oz per pack, sows 12 ft.

Pole Beans - Early Riser - Early, vigorous Romano-type.  Delicious!  Also Aunt Ada's Italian Pole Beans!  1 oz. per pack sows 12 ft.

Soup Beans - Black Turtle - Delicious soup or baked beans.  Good yields of small black beans.  Also available; Buckskin (Pinto type), Cannelini, Drabo, Maine Yellow-eye, Pawnee. 1 oz. per pack sows 12 ft.

Sweet Corn - Ashworth - Early, first ripe corn.  Hooker's Sweet Indian - Heirloom with superb sweet flavor.  White, sweet kernels mature to blue/black.  Also Rainbow Inca Sweet  & Mountain View Farm POPCORN!  Each sows 40 ft. per pack.

Cucumbers - Boston Pickler - Antique variety.  Perfect for pickles.  Marketmore - Good for slicing or pickling.  Shintokiwa - Dark green 9-12 in. fruit.  Finer flavor than most slicers with no bitterness.  Each variety has 50 seeds per pack sows 15 ft.

 

Melons - Amish - Good yields of 5-8 lb fruit with sweet, juicy orange flesh.  Also available; Delicious 51 - Very early 4-5 pound fruit.  Salmon orange color with excellent texture and flavor.  Does well in the North. Vedrantais Canteloupe.  About 20 seeds per pack.

Peas - Shell Peas - Green Arrow - Good flavor, 8 - 10 peas per pod, best trellised.  Maestro - Mid-season.  Trellising not essential.  Mayfair - Superb late pea.  Very tasty, vigorous & productive.   Snap Peas - Sugar Lode - Tremendous yields, good in heat. Climbing Snow Peas - Schweizer Riesen - Swiss Giants.  Large, tender, tasty Swiss heirloom.  Osayo Endo - Smaller pods.  All pea varieties; 1 oz. per pack sows 20 ft.

Squash - Pumpkins - Small Sugar - Smaller, tasty, cute Jack-O-Lanterns, Young's Beauty - 10 - 15 pound giants! Summer Squash - Yellow Crookneck - Prolific, Zucchini Cocozelle, Zucchini Costata Romanesca - Richer flavor than other varieties.  Winter Squash - Buttercup - Sweet Golden Flesh.  Buttercup Brown Seed - Firmer flesh, superb flavor.  Butternut - Yummmm!  All squash varieties, 25 seeds sows 12 ft.

Tomatoes - Corne de Bouc - 5" long pointed French heirloom for sun-drying & eating.  Fireworks - Large early red with excellent flavor.  Kimberton Hills Yellow - Medium-sized deep yellow.  Mildred Cowger's Belgian Cherry - Large cherry developed by a Biodynamic Master.  Persimmon - Large Beefsteak type with beautiful red-gold color and luscious flavor.  Sprint - Very early.  Rich, sweet flavor.  Stupice - Earliest to ripen.  Small fruit.  Super Lakota - BEST producer of large, early fruit.  Very juicy, old-fashioned flavor!  25 seeds per pack.

 

Herbs - $2.50 per pack
Basil - 100 seeds, Lemon Bergamot - 100 seeds, Blessed Thistle - 15 seeds, Caraway - 100 seeds, Chamomile - 100 seeds, Coriander (Cilantro)- 100 seeds, Cockscomb - 100 seeds, Dill - 100 seeds, Echinaceae Purpurea - 100 seeds, Feverfew - 100 seeds, Hore Hound - 100 seeds, Lavender - 100 seeds, Lemon Balm - 100 seeds, Lemon Basil - 50 seeds, Milk Thistle - 25 seeds, Mugwort - 25 seeds, Red-Leafed Basil - 100 seeds, Spilanthes (The toothache plant!) - 100 seeds, St. John's Wort - 100 seeds, Stinging Nettle - 100 seeds, Summer Savory - 100 seeds, Thyme - 100 seeds, Valerian - 100 seeds, Yarrow - 100 seeds.  

 

Flowers - Packs of 50 Unless noted otherwise.
Annual Blue Flax, Bachelor's Buttons, Blue or Red, Cockscomb, Cosmos Bright Lights, Cosmos Harald's Special Mix, Cosmos Sensations Mix, Flame Flower, Flowering Tobacco (100 pack), Forget-Me-Not, Foxglove, Heike-Marie's Marigold, Helichrysum (Straw Flowers),  Hibiscus Manihot (Sunset Hibiscus, 25 pack), Larkspur, Love-In-A-Mist (Nigella), Morning Glory, Nemesia (100 pack), Nicotiana White (100 pack), Petunia(100 pack), Phacelia, Poppy (Ziar Breadseed), Portulaca (Moss Rose, 100 pack), Red Peruvian Zinnias, Salpiglosis, Snap Dragon Panorama Mix, Star Flower (25 pack), Sunflower - Abendsonne or Raphael Garden Mix.

Each pack of seeds costs $2.50.

 

Toll-Free Order Line  1-800-620-7388