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  • Carol Deppe Varieties
Carol Deppe is one of a handful of seed breeders who have held on to the ideal of corn as a staff of life rather than an industrial commodity. Her book, The Resilient Gardener, has shown many of us how to secure a food supply for ourselves and our communities despite limitations of space, disability, infrastructure or climate.

After earning a PhD in Genetics from Harvard and teaching at universities, Carol opted out of the academic world to pursue independent public-domain plant breeding. Carol’s priority is breeding food crops that reliably produce a complete diet even under difficult conditions, and will allow us to thrive for the next thousand years. She has written several books that give ordinary people the knowledge to breed their own adapted varieties and produce food more reliably. All of her breeding work is pledged to the Open Source Seed Initiative, and is on the OSSI board.

You can read an interview with Carol here.
You can see all of our OSSI seeds here: OSSI Open-Source Seeds
My blog post on getting the most year-round food from your garden space is here.

Carol Deppe Varieties

Dry Bean, Beef-Bush Black Resilient
$3.80 - $15.00
$3.80 - $15.00

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Cascade Glaze Collards
$3.50
$3.50
Cascade Ruby-Gold Flint Corn
$3.80 - $14.00
$3.80 - $14.00
Magic Manna Flour Corn
$3.80 - $14.00
$3.80 - $14.00

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Candystick Dessert Delicata Squash
$3.80
$3.80
Goldini II Zucchini Squash
$3.80 - $16.00
$3.80 - $16.00

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Brown Resilient Bean
$3.60
$3.60
White Candle Gaucho Bean
$3.60
$3.60
Fast Lady Northern Southern Pea
$3.80
$3.80
Gaucho Bean
$3.60 - $17.00
$3.60 - $17.00

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Dry Bean: Beefy Resilient Grex
$3.60 - $15.80
$3.60 - $15.80

Only a few left!

Sweet Meat Squash "Oregon Homestead"
$3.80
$3.80
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  • Home
  • Shop
    • New for 2025
    • Vegetable Seeds >
      • Arugula
      • Beans
      • Beets
      • Broccoli and Cima di Rapa
      • Cabbage
      • Carrots & Roots
      • Celery
      • Chard
      • Corn
      • Cucumber
      • Eggplant
      • Fennel
      • Genepools and Landrace Gardening
      • Greens
      • Kale and Collards
      • Lettuce
      • Melons
      • Oil Crops
      • Okra
      • Open-Source Seeds (OSSI)
      • Onions and Leeks
      • Peas
      • Peppers
      • Spinach
      • Squash & Pumpkins
      • Sunflowers
      • Tomatoes
      • Tomatillos/Husk Cherries
      • Turnips and Rutabagas
      • Winter and Greenhouse Vegetables
    • Perennial Vegetable Seeds >
      • About Perennial Vegetables
    • Flower Seeds
    • Herb Seeds >
      • Medicinal and Historic Herbs
      • Culinary Herbs (and teas)
      • Herb Collections
    • Seed Collections
    • Pollinator and Pest Control Plants >
      • Pollinator and Pest Control Mixes
      • Plants for Pollinators
    • Plant for Spring >
      • Spring Vegetables
      • Spring Herbs & Flowers
      • Spring Grains
      • Seeds that Need Winter Cold
      • Fast, Fresh Food
    • Grains >
      • Heirloom Wheat Barley Oats & Rye
      • Gluten-Free Grains
    • Cover Crops >
      • Cover Crop Mixes
      • Cover Crops that are Food Crops
      • Decorative Cover Crops
    • Plant for Fall >
      • Fall Vegetables
      • ltalian Fall Specialties
      • Herbs and Flowers for Fall
      • Fall Salad Greens
    • Open Source (OSSI)
    • Start these Indoors
    • People behind the Seeds >
      • Carol Deppe Varieties
      • Jonathan Spero Varieties
      • Frank Morton Varieties
    • Companion Plants
    • Recipes >
      • Spring Recipes: Fresh Flavors of the Season
      • Tomato Recipes
      • Preserving and Fermenting
    • Plant for Summer
    • Mid-to-Late Summer Sowings
  • About Us.
    • Our Story
    • Shipping Info
    • Contact
  • Blog
  • HOW-TO