Appalachian Seeds - Welcome!
Our 2025 seed crop is ready for sale!
What an honor and privilege it is to save these seeds and their stories for this community of gardeners. Thank you for continuing to support our small family farm in our efforts to sustain this legacy of genetics for present and future growers. We will soon be offering medicinal herb seeds as well as a legacy greasy bean "Lazy Wife". Until then, check out the tomato seeds and plants catalogue....
Support WNC Farmers! Area growers may now join our PLANT CSA community: join now and receive first dibs on seasonally appropriate varieties as soon as they are ready to plant! Email or text Amy to join! Deadline is March 15th!
HURRICANE HELENE UPDATE
As you may have seen, our region was hit by a 1,000 year storm at the end of September 2024. Our farm was spared extensive devastation - we lost our road but Tim King of Sugar Creek Grading had it fixed within a week. We live in a vibrant farming community and we have all been taking good care of each other these past few months. We are fully operational and will be increasing our plant production to accommodate the increase in demand for certified organic plugs after the closure of Banner Greenhouses in Nebo, NC. Our region still needs help! There is an unfathomable amount of debris; downed trees; compromised housing; loss of perennial plants; loss of income from flooding; and so much more. If you feel the call to help our region please reach out to me and I can help direct you to agencies and households that are in dire need of funds and boots on the ground. Thank you for not forgetting us!!!
We have been growing many heirloom tomato varieties since 1998. Our specialty has always been heirloom tomato seeds and heirloom tomato plants. (see list of tomatoes we grow on the family farm, with pictures and descriptions) Our work with heirloom tomatoes has been featured in Southern Living magazine (May 1999, Timeless Tomatoes), Back Home magazine (Mar/Apr 2002, Grow "Real" Tomatoes) and Blue Ridge Country magazine (July 2004, Meet Mr. Tomato) among others.
Today we offer many unique and unusual open-pollinated, annual and perennial flowers, culinary and medicinal herbs, pollinator plants, and gourmet vegetables (see a sample availability list with descriptions). In addition we are now growing a diverse selection of edible landscape plants including elderberry and raspberries in 1 gal containers.
We mainly sell our plants to regional garden centers and organically-minded stores like Hendersonville Community Co-op, French Broad Food Co-op, Earth Fare - Westgate Shopping Center, Thyme in the Garden in Woodfin and The Garden Spot in Fairview along with heirloom tomato seeds and heirloom tomato plants on our website. See bedding plants and tomatoes. We are also at the NC Herb Festival the last weekend of April at the WNC Ag Center, and Growin' in the Mountains the first weekend of May each year at the WNC Farmers Market in Asheville, NC. This year we are pleased to join "Whole Bloomin' Thing" in Waynesville, NC. Haywood County, here we come!