Home Germinated, Lovingly Grown
From our Garden to Yours
Heirloom Tomatoes,
open-pollinated
Vegetables, Herbs & Greens
Pink, Purple, Black, Green, Yellow, Orange, Cherry, Currant, Bi-colored and Paste.
About Us
2 June 2025
Twenty plus years ago Lori started growing seedlings for her annual neighborhood yard sale. She later joined the Greater Brookland Yard Sale (GBYS map). Because of Covid we built a website to continue the tradition with curbside pickup. We have suspended online sales, but have maintained the website to show our expansive inventory for 2025. Spring 2026 will carry forward most of this inventory.
First time visitors: We don’t sell online, and we don’t Ship. Every spring we welcome comers to our garden / yard sale.
FOR SPRING 2025, we held multiple weekend sales. We post dates here, and if you want (infrequent) email alerts, you can sign up for email notifications below, or in ‘Contact Us‘. If you establish an account, you will be able to build a shopping list. We also post dates to the Brookland Listserv, and the Brookland Facebook group.
This website is now a catalog of our 2025 offerings. The catalog will have a few additions, subtractions and possible surprises for spring 2026.
As urban gardeners and seedling growers in the Brookland neighborhood of NE Washington DC, we strive for biodiversity, and employ environmentally sound, sustainable practices. Many of our plants germinate from saved seeds or cuttings from our garden. Other seeds come from members of the Seed Savers Exchange catalog or store, the Dwarf Tomato Project, and a host of inspired independent growers, cooperatives, and businesses (see our Resources page). Some seeds come from patrons who encourage us to give them a try.
Our garden is vibrant from years of building nutrient rich, micro-biologically fertile soil. It is part of our “foodshed”, and it sequesters carbon. We look to principles of permaculture, regenerative agriculture, co-planting and balance to invite a rich array of pollinators, birds and diverse fauna into our urban yard and garden. We plant and amend only with sustainable and organic inputs while employing the principles of integrated pest management if needed.
We look forward to seeing you all in our garden every spring.