Heirloom Seeds

Heirloom seeds carry generations of flavor, history, regional character, and seed-saving tradition. This collection brings together open-pollinated heirloom vegetables, herbs, and flowers with stories worth keeping in the garden.

Explore heirloom seeds for fresh eating, preserving, bouquets, pollinators, pantry crops, and more. From familiar garden favorites to distinctive varieties passed down through generations, these are seeds chosen for gardeners who value flavor, usefulness, and the tradition of growing and saving seed.
Sheepnose Pimento - Sweet Pepper Seeds
Two bright red, squat, tomato-shaped Sheepnose Pimento peppers held in a person's hands.
Sheepnose Pimento - Sweet Pepper Seeds
$5.35
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Mammoth Melting Sugar - Organic Snow Pea Seeds
Person holding a round wooden basket filled with freshly harvested green Mammoth Melting Sugar snow pea pods.
Mammoth Melting Sugar - Organic Snow Pea Seeds
$5.95
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Rosemary - Herb Seeds
Top-down view of a young Rosemary plant with vibrant, needle-like green leaves growing in dark soil.
Rosemary - Herb Seeds
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Jet Black Barley - Organic Cover Crop Seeds
Close-up of Jet Black Barley stalks showing green stems and developing dark, purple-black seed heads.
Jet Black Barley - Organic Cover Crop Seeds
$4.95
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Nabo Roxo Comprido - Turnip Seeds
Five harvested Nabo Roxo Comprido turnips with elongated purple shoulders and white tapered roots on a grey surface.
Nabo Roxo Comprido - Turnip Seeds
$4.76 $5.95
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Hearts of Gold - Organic Melon Cantaloupe Seeds
Hale’s Best Jumbo cantaloupe with heavy tan netting on a dark marble surface against a gray background.
Hearts of Gold - Organic Melon Cantaloupe Seeds
$5.99
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Catskill - Brussels Sprout Seeds
Close-up of a Catskill Brussels sprout stalk with green sprouts and light snow dusting.
Catskill - Brussels Sprout Seeds
$3.95
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Lemon - Organic Basil Seeds
Person holding a fresh bunch of vibrant green Lemon basil leaves in a garden.
Lemon - Organic Basil Seeds
$5.99
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Moonflower Seeds
Person holding large, fragrant white Moonflower blooms in a garden setting.
Moonflower Seeds
$4.99
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Birdhouse - Gourd Seeds
A single green Birdhouse gourd with a rounded body and narrow neck resting on black landscape fabric in a garden.
Birdhouse - Gourd Seeds
$4.20 $4.95
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Pak Choi White Stem - Organic Cabbage Seeds
Fresh Pak Choi White Stem heads with crisp white stalks and green leaves arranged on a dark wooden surface.
Pak Choi White Stem - Organic Cabbage Seeds
$4.95
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Royal Carpet - Organic Alyssum Seeds
Clusters of tiny, fragrant purple Royal Carpet alyssum flowers blooming among green foliage in a garden.
Royal Carpet - Organic Alyssum Seeds
$5.99
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Growing and Saving Heirloom Seeds

Heirloom seeds carry generations of careful selection into each new garden. Gardeners kept the varieties that offered memorable flavor, unusual color, dependable harvests, regional character, or a story worth preserving. Growing them gives those choices another season to take root and another place to call home.

Each heirloom brings its own character to the garden. Some are tied to a family, farm, region, or community, while others have endured because their flavor, beauty, or usefulness continued to earn a place year after year. Planting a mix of vegetables, herbs, flowers, grains, and fruits creates a garden rich with variety and connected to a much longer growing tradition.

Stewardship begins simply: grow these varieties well, learn their habits, share their harvests, and pass their stories along. Whether a seed is saved, exchanged, or planted again next season, each crop becomes part of a living chain between the gardeners who came before and those who will follow.

Carry the Garden Forward

Heirloom Vegetable Seeds

Heirloom Vegetable Seeds

Heirloom tomatoes, beans, squash, peppers, greens, roots, and other open-pollinated garden staples.
Hands holding a harvest of fresh, green A & C Pickling cucumbers in a garden with a chicken nearby.

Beginner Garden Seeds

Dependable vegetables, herbs, and flowers chosen for an approachable and rewarding start.
Medicinal Garden Seeds

Medicinal Garden Seeds

Traditional herbs for teas, infusions, salves, and a home apothecary rooted in practical garden use.

Heirloom Garden Questions

Heirloom seeds are open-pollinated varieties preserved over time for their history, flavor, appearance, adaptability, cultural importance, or connection to a particular place or community. While definitions vary, a variety is often considered an heirloom once it has been grown for 50 years or more, with many passed from one generation of gardeners to the next.

Yes. Heirloom varieties are open-pollinated, so seed can generally be saved and grown again. Some crops cross readily with nearby varieties, making distance, timing, caging, or hand-pollination useful when keeping a variety true.

Heirloom refers to a variety’s history and how it has been preserved over time, while organic refers to how the seed crop was grown and certified.

Many of the heirloom seeds we source are Certified Organic. Seeds grown here at Bucktown Seed Company are produced using Certified Naturally Grown practices. Other heirloom varieties may come from growers who use regenerative, soil-building, and low-input methods without pursuing formal organic certification, so the growing and certification details are listed on each product page.

Beans, peas, lettuce, tomatoes, and many self-pollinating flowers are welcoming places to begin. They are generally easier to keep true than crops such as corn, squash, cucumbers, or brassicas, which can cross more readily with nearby varieties.

Grow a Piece of American History

Rooted in America

Rooted in America

Six American heirlooms chosen for their flavor, history, and enduring place in gardens across the country.

Growing & Saving Heirloom Seeds

Summer squash being processed for seed at Bucktown Seed Company in Pennsylvania.
How to Save Squash Seeds: Summer & Winter Squash
Saving squash seeds is easier than you might think. Whether you're letting a zucchini mature in the garden or preparing winter squash for dinner, learn how to collect, clean, dry,...
Dried seed pods split open to reveal mature seeds ready for saving and planting next season.
Open-Pollinated Seeds: What They Are and Why They Matter
Learn what open-pollinated seeds are, how they differ from hybrids and heirlooms, and why they matter for seed saving, biodiversity, and the home garden.
Mature yellow and green A&C Pickling Cucumbers ready for seed extraction.
How to Save Cucumber Seeds: Harvesting, Fermenting & Storing
Learn how to save cucumber seeds from fully mature fruits. Follow our simple steps for fermenting, cleaning, drying, and storing seeds for next season, with tips from our own seed-saving...
Hand selecting a Bucktown seed packet from an organized seed storage box
How to Store Seeds for Future Use: Keep Them Viable Longer
Learn how to store garden seeds properly, how long seeds can remain viable, and how cool, dry, dark conditions help preserve germination for future seasons.
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