Cover Crop Seed Cool Season Soil Building Mix Growing a cover crop (aka Green Manure) is a wonderful way to build soil organic matter, protect the soil against erosion, fix nitrogen, provide habitat for beneficial insects & pollinators and so much more! We typically plant cool season cover crops after harvesting the last of the summer garden which is typically in October here in Oregon.  Alternately, they can be planted as early in late winter or early spring as possible.   This mixture of cool season varieties is a proven mix that we use here on our farm and in gardens. The cereal grain Oats sprout quickly and provide a vertical scaffold for the peas and vetch to climb. The 2 peas sprout quickly and provides fast growth and coverage and abundant nitrogen fixation.  A cereal grain and legume mix can grow from 2 to 5 tons (!!!) of biomass per acre, that's 40-100 pounds for a 100 square foot area. * We regret that we are unable to ship this product internationally in amounts larger than 1 pound * Seeding rates:   75-150 pounds per acre  1/4-1/2 pound per 100 sq.ft., 5-6# for 1000 sq.ft.  A cereal grain and legume mix can grow from 2 to 5 tons (!!!) of biomass per acre, that's 40-100 pounds for a 100 square foot area. Cool Season Soil Building Mix contains: (Cayuse Oats, Lana Vetch, Magnus Peas, Dundale Peas, Barley, Bunker Triticale) 1/5th each. Roughly 60% legume and 40% grain. 1 Pound, 3 pounds, 5 pounds. If you are interested in technical data, then here is a great research report done in Western Oregon by the USDA-NRCS: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_PLANTMATERIALS/publications/orpmcsr13282.pdf...

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Basic Seed Saving, Easy Step by step Instructions for 18 vegetables and 29 wildflowers By Bill McDorman We hope to encourage you to begin saving your own seeds with this simple 46 page book that covers all the basics to save seeds from the vegetables and flowers in your garden.  Author Bill McDorman was an early pioneer in the small regional seed company field with his High Altitude Gardens company in the 1980's and 90's in Montana and Idaho.  A special bonus in this book draws upon Bill's love for the Wild lands and tips for saving wildflower seed that are very much applicable to saving common garden flowers and herbs too. 1 Book: $6.00...

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Oats, Cayuse - Avena sativa A cool season annual cereal grain.  Cayuse Oats are used primarily for cover crop, green chop, hay and forage production.  It is common to mix them with legumes and other cereals.  Cayuse Oats are larger, mature later and have a larger stem than Montezuma Oats.  Cayuse oats should be planted in the Fall/Winter in California and mild climates.  In colder area they should be planted in the spring. Oats can also be grown and harvested in the green, "milk" stage for use as a medicinal tea which has benefits as a nervous system tonic. Milky oats are the oat tops harvested when they are in their milky stage, during which the oat tops release a white, milky sap when squeezed. This stage, which lasts approximately one week, occurs after the oat begins flowering and before the seed hardens and becomes the oat grain we eat as oatmeal. Tincturing the milky oats while fresh preserves their bioactive potency. Alternatively, milky oats can be dried and used as a nutritive tonic, and are a beautiful addition to tea blends. Organically Grown at Pacific Botanicals in Wilderville, Oregon  ...

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Look no further for the perfect gift for your green-thumbed friend! Give them the gift of seeds so they can choose to grow beautiful flowers or sunkissed veggies. Give the gift of a blooming garden!  We offer gift certificates in $25, $40, $50, $100 or $200 values. Just click on the appropriate one to get started.  Thank you! Wishing you all the best, Siskiyou Seeds ON SHIPPING: *Please note this is a physical gift certificate, sent in the mail and as such may take up to 5 business days for order fulfillment. If you wish to purchase an online gift card code sent via email please select the Siskiyou Seeds Digital Gift Card   ...

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Do you find that despite your best labelling efforts the variety name just is not on the marker by the time of harvest? The fast drying permanent ink marker is both fade and water resistant. You can use it to write on plant labels, containers, plastic, wood, ceramic and metal! Aluminum Barrel with Fine Tip (0.8 mm)...

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These popsicle stick style plant labels are biodegradable, renewable and sustainable. They are made from  New England White Birch veneer in the USA.  6" x 5/8" Natural Wood Plant MarkersPacks of 24...

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New to gardening? Stressed about making a garden plan? Wanting to level up your gardening skills? Our Successional Garden Plans includes a guide for up to 8 months of gardening. We provide a straightforward but dynamic approach to gardening. We introduce you to key gardening concepts such as inter-planting, cover crops, crop rotations and successions. Garden plans help you optimize space while growing a wide variety of vegetables, flowers and herbs. Digital plans include detailed garden layouts, suggested planting list with plant number and spacing guides for each unique vegetable and a glossary of gardening terms. While the plans are detailed they are meant to be adapted to your unique space and needs.  Thank you for purchasing these garden plans! Your support helps us to further open-source seed autonomy, resilience and community food sovereignty! For seed pairing add our Small Garden Plans Seed Collection! Small Garden Plans (up to 800 square feet including bed rotations) include spacing, companion planting and information for the following plants:  Arugula, Basil, Bean (Dry & Snap), Beets, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Cilantro, Corn, Cucumber, Flowers, Kale, Leek, Lettuce (Heading and Salad Mix), Melon, Onion, Parsley, Peas, Peppers (Hot & Sweet), Radish, Spinach, Summer Squash, Sunflower, Swiss Chard, Tomato (Trellis & Paste), Winter Squash. Large Garden Plans (up to 1920 square feet including bed rotations) include spacing, companion planting and information for the same plants as the Small but in greater numbers and include additional plans for: Cucumber (Pickling & Slicing), Fava Beans, Flour Corn, Mustard, Onion (Storage & Bunching), Peas, Radicchio, Watermelon *Seeds sold separately through our Small Garden Plans Seed Collection! :)  ...

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The Nejiri Gama Hoe is one of the most used farm tools we carry. Super versatile, this ancient tools chops weeds, tackles dirt and is extremely useful for just about everything around the garden. It's great for scraping juvenile weeds too. Made out of stainless steel, this tool won't rust.     Length: 11" Width (head): 5" Weight:  6 oz Bridgetown Garden Tools, Portland OR  ...

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Look no further for the perfect gift for your green-thumbed friend! Give them the gift of seeds so they can choose to grow beautiful flowers or sunkissed veggies. Give the gift of a blooming garden!  We offer digital gift cards in $25, $40, $50, $100 or $200 values Just click on the appropriate one to get started.  Thank you! Wishing you all the best, Siskiyou Seeds *Please note, this is a digital gift card and is sent via email - perfect when you need a gift in a hurry or you would like to forgo the cost of mailing a physical certificate. Please allow 1-2 business days for processing. For those who would like a physical Gift Certificate in the mail check out the Siskiyou Seeds Gift Certificate (Mail)...

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Bamboo glove with a nitrile palm. These gloves are a breathable 13-gauge bamboo rayon knit. Abrasion and puncture-resistant nitrile coating molds to the hand providing comfort and excellent dexterity. Comes in Small, Med, Large and Extra Large.  Latex free....

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A great lightweight 2.5" to 3" wide hand hoe for working in planting beds. This life-time tool is made of hand forged steel and an american hickory handle. Made in Oregon, USA. Forged in heat, hammered and shaped mainly by hand at the anvil, and then sharpened and coated with a clear enamel. distinctively heavier than the tools of most other manufacturers who make their tools light in weight from pressed steel. The extra weight helps with durability, and often enables work to be completed with less strain on the gardener's muscles.... This might be our farm teams favorite! ...

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Seed Cleaning Screens - Expanded Set (Flowers, Herbs and Smaller Seeds)  We are excited to offer these sturdy hand cleaning screens to support your seed saving efforts. Our neighbor and master woodworker Mateo Geier makes these for us from Douglas Fir, lumber and durable stainless steel wire mesh. If you are cleaning tiny seeds like flowers and herbs you will need this set of 3 screens. If you are wanting to clean most vegetable seeds, you will need the Basic Seed Cleaning Screens which has more space between the wires to help clean larger seeds.  Included here are these 3 sizes: 5 wires per inch (1/5"), a 20 wires per inch (1/20") and a 40 wires per inch (1/40"). These closer together wires are excellent for removing the chaff and fine dust from from tiny herb and flower seeds. Each screen is 12" x 12" by 2" deep.  The wooden frames are glued and nailed and then rounded and sanded for easy handling. The screen material is high quality stainless steel that will not rust. They come unfinished for those that may have a sensitivity to finishes or would like to meet organic certification requirements for seed processing. We include a basic info sheet on seed cleaning to help you in your process.  Set of 3 screens: $199  SEE OUR BASIC SEED SCREEN SET . The two sets together enable you to clean nearly all seeds you may grow. When purchased together receive an automatic discount of 15% on your second set! * Not eligible for free shipping ...

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Seed Cleaning Screens Basic Set  We are excited to offer these sturdy hand cleaning screens to support your seed saving efforts. Our neighbor and master woodworker Mateo Geier makes these for us from Douglas Fir, lumber and durable stainless steel wire mesh. There are many specialized seed screens, however, we have found that with these simple 3 screens you can do the job of cleaning most vegetable seeds of chaff and dust. Each screen is 12" x 12" by 2" deep. If you are cleaning tiny seeds like flowers and herbs you will need the Advanced Seed Cleaning Screens which have less space between the wires.  Included here are 3 sizes: 2 wires per inch (1/2"), 4 wires per inch (1/4"), ) and 8 wires per inch (1/8").  These assist in cleaning most larger seeds. The wooden frames are glued and nailed and then rounded and sanded for easy handling. They come unfinished for those that may have a sensitivity to finishes or would like to meet organic certification requirements for seed processing. With these screens you can clean everything from large seeds such as peas, corn and beans to medium sized seeds like chard and cilantro to smaller seeds such as lettuce, brassicas. We include a basic info sheet on seed cleaning to help you in your process.  Set of 3 screens: $199 SEE OUR ADVANCED SEED SCREEN SET THAT HELPS YOU TO CLEAN SMALL FLOWER AND HERB SEEDS. The two sets together enable you to clean nearly all seeds you may grow.   When purchased together receive an automatic discount of 15% on your second set! * Not eligible for free shipping ...

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ARS Needlenose Pruners 300 These are the original fruit pruner - also great for flower and cut flower harvesting alike! Also if you like to cultivate an herb garden these may be just the thing for you. The ARS Pruners have all metal construction and a high quality spring. The strap holds the pruner securely in place when not in use. The handles are designed ergonomically.  Among other things the Siskiyou Seeds Farm team finds these pruners to be very useful for garlic cleaning!  7.5" Long...

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These high-quality plant markers are great for herb gardens, greenhouses, seed trays, window boxes & vegetable gardens. Easy to engrave with a ballpoint pen or use the Fade Proof Garden Marker to make sure your variety types are marked! Long lasting zinc label area and metal stakes. 10"" tall 2.5"" zinc label area Pack of 5...

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Standard trowel. Medium size. Great for digging. This life-time tool is made of hand forged steel and an american hickory handle. Made in Oregon, USA. Forged in heat, hammered and shaped mainly by hand at the anvil, and then sharpened and coated with a clear enamel. Distinctively heavier than the tools of most other manufacturers who make their tools light in weight from pressed steel. The extra weight helps with durability, and often enables work to be completed with less strain on the gardener's muscles....

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A classic lightweight weeder. Both sides of the blade are sharpened to use as a small scuffle hoe. This life-time tool is made of hand forged steel and an american hickory handle. Made in Oregon, USA. Forged in heat, hammered and shaped mainly by hand at the anvil, and then sharpened and coated with a clear enamel. distinctively heavier than the tools of most other manufacturers who make their tools light in weight from pressed steel. The extra weight helps with durability, and often enables work to be completed with less strain on the gardener's muscles....

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Prepping For Abundance These varieties are garden standouts known for productivity and flavor. We all like to be prepared. That's what this collection is all about. We offer these seed bundles packaged in Mylar bags which include an oxygen absorber and a planting calendar.  Mylar offers an extremely low Oxygen Transmission Rate (OTR) due to its thick foil laminate layer. Providing three layers of protection from moisture, light, and odor. Mylar is extremely flexible and thin, while also being very strong and durable.  Seeds do not just expire when stored properly. In fact the oldest viable seed germinated after 2000 years. It had been preserved in a cool, dry place, not by freezing. At Siskiyou Seeds we store our seeds cool, dark and dry. These pre-selected seeds stored in Mylar with oxygen absorbers and a planting calendar takes some of the planning out of your hands and allows you to feel more prepared for the abundance ahead.  We recommend this product is stored in a cool, dry place. If done so will remain viable for at least 5 years.  2 Options for different sized gardens Smaller Garden: This collection of 16 sublime packets can plant a nice 10' x 10' space or a couple of raised beds. A 16 packet window into what makes a wonderful unique garden of beautiful, delectable delights.  Arugula, Tuscan - super quick growing greens provide a delicious source of fresh and tasty greens - makes amazing pesto too! Basil, Genovese - my favorite pesto variety. Mild sweet flavor. Keep harvesting it to keep it from flowering and provide you with aromatic loveliness! Beans, Provider Snap Bush - so productive and gorgeous. Beets, Shiraz - Fast growing; big-tops, smooth round, red roots with outstanding vigor. The sweet, dark red roots are incredibly smooth due to their disease resistance Carrot, Scarlet Nantes - delicious and nutritious! Cilantro, Santo - selected for slow bolting. Allowed to go to seed it will resow itself readily. Edible seed is known as Coriander. Corn, Zanadoo Sweet - a mixture of white and yellow kernels and we are finding this bi-color is promising to be a little sweeter than the single color white or yellow Anasazi cross corn lines. Cucumber, Lemon - never bitter, the perfect fresh garden snack, that is tremendously productive over a long season. Kale, Alive Vates - A Siskiyou Seeds Original seed at it's best. A work horse! Kale Chips, Kale salads with Balsamic vinegar and so much more. Lettuce, Verte Mar - Uniform heads are surrounded by tasty, crisp, slightly crinkled leaves that are sweeter than other romaines. Heat tolerant! Onion, Siskiyou Sweet - Siskiyou Seeds Original. A well adapted sweet onion with 20 years of organic, on-farm selection to produce a versatile standby. Pea, Oregon Sugar Pod - A delicious, highly disease resistant, non-climbing dwarf snow pea. Radish, Cherry Belle - They grow so quickly and provide you with fresh food so easily they are perfect for filling in production gaps in your garden calendar. Spinach, Abundant Bloomsdale - Spanakopita - say no more Tomatoes, Gold Currant - so sweet that they will keep you in the garden for longer than you expected! Zucchini, Golden - a prolific producer of dazzling gold zucchinis that can grow over 10", but are tastiest when eaten at this size or smaller.   Large Garden  Seeds Enough for a 20' x 20' garden. Includes all of the above plus the following for a total of 27 packets: Beans, Pepe de Rola - Old timers believe pole beans taste better than bush varieties. Find out for yourself if the extra effort to trellis them is worth it.. Broccoli, Solstice - After cutting the central head, the plant continues to produce abundant tasty side shoots for several months. In addition, the stems are very tender, which increases the amount of edible, delicious broccoli that may be harvested from each plant.  Chinese Cabbage, Maruba Santoh - grows rapidly to a large size creating abundant leaves for stir frys and works perfect for pickling into delicious ferments. Corn, Festivity Sweet - A selection bred by Jonathan Spero of Lupin Knoll Farm that is the result of crossing Festivity with Tuxana sweet corn. Open pollinated, cold tolerant, rainbow-colored, multi-stalked with frequently 3-4 ears per plant.   Lettuce, Diversity Mix  - direct seed for continuous salad crops. Melon, Sharlyn - Forget flying to the tropics people, stay home and grow these in your garden, eat ‘em in the sun and frolic with friends on a fruit sugar high!  Mesclun Mix, Mild - Keep planting this delicious mix of mustards, cress, kale, orach and more for tender salads all season. Pumpkin, Winter Luxury - the jury is in and agrees that these small netted fruits make the best pie pumpkins. Sunflower, Black Dye - forget trellising those beans and just grow them up these lovely and beauties. Swiss Chard, Prismatic- as beautiful to behold as it is to use in the kitchen. Tomato, Black Krim - This is a wonderful medium large heirloom slicer hailing from the isle of Krim in the Black Sea in Russia. The juicy flesh is marbled with green, brown, red and pink and is other-worldly in flavors! One of the best. ...

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 Preliminary Phone or Zoom call Are you looking to take your land based project to another level? Perhaps you have gotten started and would benefit from some professional advice and direction to bring your system to its full potential. Or are you looking at purchasing a site and want some help "checking your math"? Don Tipping brings 3 decades of organic farming, permaculture design and teaching and intensive study of natural systems to your project whether it’s a garden, home site, homestead, property development, broad scale farm to landscape scale design. Well thought out designs can provide many practical and ecological benefits, including: Pleasing whole system design Yielding food, herbs, medicine, and other useful products. Building soil and biodiversity. Creating stimulating, educational, and safe play spaces for children, free of toxic chemicals. Reducing your ecological footprint, while increasing self- and community-reliance. Deepening your connection with the Earth. Creating wildlife habitat in your backyard. Passive solar and similar approaches can result in lower long-term housing costs. Conserving and harvesting water. Increasing property value, financially and otherwise. Pre-Acquisition Assessment of Properties Effective Strategies to Restore Health to Degraded Sites Facilitation of Master Planning Processes Development of Educational Programs for Project Stakeholders Identification of Site-Appropriate Micro-Enterprises Design of Edible and other Functional Landscapes Whole farm / property design, planning and mapping Forest Garden Design, planning, design and installation Multifunctional Hedgerows Keyline water management Strategies: Ponds, swales, contour canals and simple eco-aquaculture Rotational Grazing Systems Seed Production and adaptation for climate resilience Ecological woodland management including prescribed burning Don can assist with the following: * Site Assessment & evaluation * Mapping and Design* Drone footage, images and map overlays* Species lists for existing vegetation * Homesite siting and evaluation * Earthworks for roads, drainage, ponds, catchment, and swales* Food forest design, planting design and plant procurement* Comprehensive phased design and step by step implementation planning* Site walk, and surveying for earth works   Select either : * 30 minute initial consult by clicking the ADD TO CART button below. * 60 minute consult by clicking the ADD TO CART button below. You will receive an email shortly after with a link where you can schedule a 30 minute appointment with Don via phone or over Zoom.  Beyond the initial consult Rates vary depend on the scope of the project and distance, starting at $180/hr. and $0.65/mile for travel.    ...

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Medium size. Long reach. Great for lightweight plant divisions, digging, and bulb planting in loose soil. This life-time tool is made of hand forged steel and an american hickory handle. Made in Oregon, USA. Forged in heat, hammered and shaped mainly by hand at the anvil, and then sharpened and coated with a clear enamel. distinctively heavier than the tools of most other manufacturers who make their tools light in weight from pressed steel. The extra weight helps with durability, and often enables work to be completed with less strain on the gardener's muscles....

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