The Shop // Grown, Saved, and Sold by Hand

What the Farm Sells

Seed saved on the farm and the writing of the farm. Everything here comes from one closed loop, no purchased inputs, and nothing shipped without telling you exactly where it came from.
Beyond Organic

Organic is a certification. This is a record.

Nothing enters this farm to grow a plant that did not leave this farm.

The compost, the seed, the rotation, the life in the soil: it all comes from right here. We have never purchased a fertilizer, a soil amendment, a seed treatment, or a seed lot to grow what we sell. Not a chemical, organic or otherwise. Never.

We do not buy the label, so we will not borrow its name. What we call what we grow is not a certification, it is a record.

Farm Seed

Small batches, hand harvested and hand processed, with zero fossil fuels in production.

In season // heirloom

Gray Mammoth Sunflower

Helianthus annuus

The classic tall American back-of-the-border sunflower: massive heads, large well-filled grey seed, open pollinated and true to type, so you can save it and replant it yourself.

  • Seeds: 30 per packet
  • Harvest: 2026
  • Germination: pending hand test
  • Type: open pollinated, saves true
  • Shipping: free, by mail
$4
Coming soon

Pole Bush Beans

Phaseolus vulgaris

Our bean line is being saved for the next season. Grown the same way, beyond organic, saved on the farm, and adapted to this ground.

  • Status: in the ground, not on the shelf
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Coming soon

Sorghum

Sorghum bicolor

Grain, syrup, or forage: the drought-hardy workhorse of subsistence farming. We are deciding which varieties suit this ground before we save them.

  • Status: variety being chosen for this soil
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Coming soon

Boston Pickling Cucumber

Cucumis sativus

The classic short, blocky pickler, bred to stay crisp in the jar. A straight line back to the farm kitchen, open pollinated.

  • Status: being saved for next season
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The Writing
Available // ebook

Meditations on Agriculture

The land has always said the same thing.

Five thousand years of what the land has said to farmers, from the Sumerian Farmer's Instructions to solarpunk. EPUB + PDF, delivered by email after purchase.

  • Formats: EPUB + PDF
  • Delivery: by email
$9
On shipping, honestly Shipping is free. Each small batch goes out by mail, a packet of hand-counted seed in an envelope. The book is delivered by email, instantly, after checkout.
The soil remembers These seeds have grown on this land through its first years of adaptation to West Virginia soil: the acid hillside ground, the wet and the dry, the short season and the long nights. A hybrid from a catalog is bred for a climate that does not exist here. These seeds were not. Year by year, saved and replanted, they belong to this place more than the people who sold them.