Heirloom Tomatoes,
open-pollinated
Vegetables, Herbs & Greens

April 7, 2026

Welcome to our website which lists the broad array of heirloom tomato, pepper, eggplant, greens, and herb seedlings (as well as some other fun stuff!) that we offer for sale each Spring.  We are a hyper-local business with everything grown here at our home in Northeast, DC.

Over twenty years ago Lori offered extra seedlings that she was growing at the annual neighborhood yard sale–Greater Brookland Yard Sale (GBYS map).  During Covid we built a website to continue this tradition with curbside pickup. While we no longer offer online sales, we continue to maintain the website to show our expansive seedling inventory.  Spring 2026 will carry forward most of our regular inventory along with some great new additions.  

FIRST TIME VISITORS: Please note that We DO NOT sell online, and we DO NOT ship plants. Every spring we welcome gardeners to our home for a seedling sale.  This website is now a catalog of our 2026 offerings.

FOR SPRING 2026, we will hold multiple weekend sales starting the weekend of May 2-3. We will post sale dates here on our website and through 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 from our website inventory. We also post seedling sale dates to the Brookland Listserv, and the Brookland Facebook group.

As urban gardeners and seedling growers in Northeast Washington DC, we strive to offer mainly heirloom varieties that reflect seed heritage and biodiversity.  We employ environmentally sound, sustainable practices. A selection of our plants germinate from saved seeds or are propagated from 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).  

Our garden is a vibrant space 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 greatly enjoy this community and look forward to seeing you all in our garden every Spring.