Specializing in rare and endangered
vegetables, flowers and herbs.

Our 2011 online catalogue has been updated!

eritage Harvest Seed is a mail order business specializing in rare and endangered heirloom varieties of vegetables, flowers and herbs. Jessy Friesen and I, along with my mother Iris Stefanec, are working together to preserve heirloom varieties and offer their seed for sale to the public. This requires a lot of research and countless hours trying to track down rare seed sources, as well as delving into the histories of different varieties.

I am a member of Seeds of Diversity Canada and Seed Savers Exchange based in Decorah, Iowa. Both organizations are extremely worthwhile and I strongly recommend anyone with an interest in heirloom plants to join. I also have a Bachelor�s Degree in Horticultural Technology and have been an avid gardener since I was a child.

We have some exciting changes at Heritage Harvest Seed this year. We have increased the amount of seed in most seed packets and are now offering bulk seed of many of our varieties. Our customers can now shop online as we have added an "shopping cart", however the website is still "under construction". In the event of any difficulties, questions or comments; please email our webmaster.

We also have some new seed collections like the Container Gardening Collection and Children's Garden Collection. Retail Sales Racks are available for small shop owners.

For those of you who would like to learn more about seed saving we have a Seed Saving Book written by Seeds of Diversity for sale. In the near future we plan to add a growing guide to our website. Once again I am very excited about this year�s selection, some of which are only available through our website. We have one of the best selections of heirloom varieties in North America and our collection continues to grow each year. It has taken me years to be able to offer some of these special varieties to my customers. This year we have the extremely rare Gaspe Flint Corn, Saskatchewan Rainbow Flint and Mandan Speckled Corn as well as the Asparagus Pea and Piros Feher Bean. Some of our new heirloom tomatoes include Dix Doigts de Naples Tomato, Plate de Haiti Tomato, White Wax Tomato and Millets Dakota Tomato just to name a few.

At Heritage Harvest Seed we garden organically and plan to be organically certified next year. We now grow more than three quarters of our seed on our farms in Carman and Fisher Branch. We take the growing and preserving of heirloom plants and the saving of seed very seriously. When you purchase seed you can be assured that the seed is viable and true to type and that you are supporting an extremely worthwhile preservation effort.

Tanya Stefanec