We created this collection to reflect a beautiful range of southern heirlooms. The collection includes one standard packet each of the following seed packets. All seeds are grown by Appalachian Growers Seed Collective farmers. If you want to learn more about the farmers and the varieties, then check out the individual variety pages!
Grapevine Greasy Bean (pole bean)
LD Reel Pepper (hot pepper, cayenne-type)
Blue Goose Pea (southern pea)
Grace Layman Tomato (pink slicer)
Whidby White Okra
Greasy Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris): These delicious and culturally important beans have been grown in the Grapevine community of Madison County for many years. Harvested when the green bean pods are quite mature, the seeds have begun to fill out, making for a heartier dish. These beans are a longstanding Western North Carolina staple, great for canning and eating fresh. Mature seeds are white. Requires trellising.
LD Reel Hot Pepper (Capsicum annuum): A Marion, NC, heirloom cayenne type hot pepper, passed down through many generations for its use as a dried hot pepper. These plants produce heavy yields of 3-5" long, slender fiery red peppers. The tall, sturdy plants keep producing a solid crop all the way up until first frost. Staking is recommended. The peppers are excellent for making hot sauce, fire cider, drying and more.
Blue Goose Southern Pea (Vigna unguiculata): Unusual and beautiful blue-gray speckled peas, these peas grow abundantly on convenient, semi-bush plants. The small seeds cook quickly and have excellent flavor and a delicious creamy texture.
Grace Lahman Pink Slicer (Solanum lycopersicum): A lovely pink/red toned slicer that is extremely productive. They are a good meaty tomato, great for fresh salsas and salads as well as for canning tomato sauce.
Whidby White (Abelmoschus esculentus): “White” okra varieties were once favorites across the South, but fell out of favor with the advent of industrial agriculture, and many were lost. Whidby White was once one of these lost varieties, but has been recovered thanks to the work of the Seed Savers Exchange, Chris Smith of the Utopian Seed Project, and a whole community of seed stewards who helped bring it back! It’s a productive and tasty okra that has a little inherent diversity and has been grown in the region since 2018. Jamie Swofford of Old North Farm grows it as a market staple. Approximately 60 days to harvest.
We created this collection to reflect a beautiful range of southern heirlooms. The collection includes one standard packet each of the following seed packets. All seeds are grown by Appalachian Growers Seed Collective farmers. If you want to learn more about the farmers and the varieties, then check out the individual variety pages!
Grapevine Greasy Bean (pole bean)
LD Reel Pepper (hot pepper, cayenne-type)
Blue Goose Pea (southern pea)
Grace Layman Tomato (pink slicer)
Whidby White Okra
Greasy Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris): These delicious and culturally important beans have been grown in the Grapevine community of Madison County for many years. Harvested when the green bean pods are quite mature, the seeds have begun to fill out, making for a heartier dish. These beans are a longstanding Western North Carolina staple, great for canning and eating fresh. Mature seeds are white. Requires trellising.
LD Reel Hot Pepper (Capsicum annuum): A Marion, NC, heirloom cayenne type hot pepper, passed down through many generations for its use as a dried hot pepper. These plants produce heavy yields of 3-5" long, slender fiery red peppers. The tall, sturdy plants keep producing a solid crop all the way up until first frost. Staking is recommended. The peppers are excellent for making hot sauce, fire cider, drying and more.
Blue Goose Southern Pea (Vigna unguiculata): Unusual and beautiful blue-gray speckled peas, these peas grow abundantly on convenient, semi-bush plants. The small seeds cook quickly and have excellent flavor and a delicious creamy texture.
Grace Lahman Pink Slicer (Solanum lycopersicum): A lovely pink/red toned slicer that is extremely productive. They are a good meaty tomato, great for fresh salsas and salads as well as for canning tomato sauce.
Whidby White (Abelmoschus esculentus): “White” okra varieties were once favorites across the South, but fell out of favor with the advent of industrial agriculture, and many were lost. Whidby White was once one of these lost varieties, but has been recovered thanks to the work of the Seed Savers Exchange, Chris Smith of the Utopian Seed Project, and a whole community of seed stewards who helped bring it back! It’s a productive and tasty okra that has a little inherent diversity and has been grown in the region since 2018. Jamie Swofford of Old North Farm grows it as a market staple. Approximately 60 days to harvest.
