Introduced in Illinois in 1923 by the Buckbee Seed Company named for their native son.  Brilliant red, round, 12-oz tomatoes in clusters of up to nin

Long, slim, curly green fruits.  Medium hot  (24K Scoville) with crunchy flesh.   Eat raw or pickled.

Part of Peru’s culinary “holy trinity” (Aji Amarillo, garlic, red onion), this yellow chili pepper (orange as it matures) is a nice

Venezuelan heirloom.  Looks like a Habanero, but is sweet, spicy, with only a small amount of heat.  Highly aromatic fruits with complex smoky flavo

Sharing it’s name with Aleppo, Syria, this modestly hot pepper (10K Scoville) has a complex smoky, salty, sweet flavor.   Dried and crushed or

From an Amish community in Wisconsin, but thought to have originated in Lancaster County, PA.  Large Roma-style.  Balance of sweet and tart. 

Developed by University of Hawaii for their hot, humid, insect ridden climate.  Highly disease resistant (nemotode root knot, fusarium, gray-spotted

Mild hot pepper named for Anaheim, California.

Mild heirloom chili pepper (1-2K Scoville) originating in the state of Puebla, Mexico.  Ancho (when dried) / Poblano (when green and ripe) pepper. 

Leaves and flowers both have a strong licorice-mint flavor. This perennial member of the mint family grows 2-4 feet tall. Culinary, medicinal, decorat

Prodigious, bountiful , strong peppery mint.  Highly aromatic.  Bushy, mounding herb with long narrow leaves.  Lilac like flowers strongly attract

100-year-old heirloom hailing from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.

Sweet, dense, prolific grape tomatoes with great flavor.  Grows to a bushy 4 feet and can produce hundreds of 1 inch tomatoes up to first frost.

Dark pink heirloom carried through the Underground Railroad by an unnamed slave as he crossed to freedom in Ripley, OH, from KY. Seeds were passed on

Polish heirloom.  Sweet golden yellow berries, 1/2 – 3/4 inch, with a hint of tartness. Plant is low with a wide branching habit.  Ripe when h

Heirloom from Ruby Arnold of Greeneville, TN.  Slightly flattened, 1 lb., fruit ripens to a pale greenish-yellow (“lime jello green”) wit

Lovely, blocky red bell style pepper brought to Iowa by Italian immigrants Giovanni “John” Ausilio and Rachel P. Scarcello in the early 20

Heirloom Italian Mammoth-leaf basil — 3″ by 4″ leaves.  Strong licorice and anise flavor.  Use for pesto or use whole leaf as a wr

First described in 1805, but available in 17th century.  Pear-shaped, yellow tomatoes 1-1/2 x 3/4.”  Mild flavor.

From Hungary.  Brought to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin in 1912 by the Joe Hussli family.  Medium hot.  Ripens from green to red.