Heirloom Varieties

This crop profile provides a marketing overview, market outlook, and economic and production considerations for heirloom tomato production.

This crop profile provides a marketing overview, market outlook, and economic and production considerations for heirloom bean production.

A fact sheet that covers marketing and production considerations for heirloom crops.

Gives hints on saving seed and lists some heirloom varieties of beans, corn, cucumbers, lettuce, melons, okra, peas, peppers, potatoes, squash and pumpkins, tomatoes and watermelon.

A nonprofit membership organization of individuals working locally and internationally to save heirloom garden seeds and offering a large selection of those seeds for sale. The catalog of seeds derives from a diverse selection of vegetables, herbs and flowers maintained by the group in its seed bank and preservation gardens.

Page through catalogs from the late 1700s to present to find historic and heirloom varieties.

Farmers' Bulletin in the National Agricultural Library Organic Roots Collection. Includes recommended varieties of fruits and nuts, from apples to filberts (hazelnuts) to strawberries. Provides suggested varieties by region. Discover more historic varieties searching the Digital Collections. 

1920s Farmers' Bulletin in the National Agricultural Library Organic Roots Collection. Includes recommended varieties of muskmelon for commercial and home and garden production. Discover more historic varieties by searching the Digital Collections.

Farmers' Bulletin in the National Agricultural Library Organic Roots Collection. Includes recommended varieties for the northern and southern United States. Find more historic materials by searching the Digital Collections. 

"This publication is a timeless, illustrated - look back - at 36 vegetable varieties commonly grown during the 1800s... Excerpts from that century's garden books as well as recipes included."