Kale & Collards

(Brassica oleracea) A Pacific Northwest resurrection of the nearly 200-year-old southern, wavy-leafed classic “Green Glaze” brought back to life by the collaborative breeding efforts of Alan Kapular, Carol Deppe, and Jeff McCormac. It expresses an uncommon recessive gene for a waxy, glossy leaf texture (think chard), which is said to...

*This seed is offered as part of the "Gusto Italiano Project", a collaborative partnership between Uprising Seeds, Italian breeders Smarties.Bio, and the Culinary Breeding Network. Certified organic seed is grown in Italy by Smarties.Bio. From Lane Selman of the Culinary Breeding Network:"During the Radicchio Expedition we visited Farmer/Seed Saver/Plant Breeder...

(Brassica oleracea) Wouldn't it be great to have Lacinato kale with the classic, deep-blue-green, savoyed leaves but with bright purple stems? Hank Keogh of Avoca Seed in Corvallis, OR, asked this question and then answered it himself with this beautiful cross of Lacinato with Lacinato Rainbow. The breeding population was...

(Brassica oleracea) Nero di Toscana (also referred to as Dinosaur or Lacinato kale in the US) has consistently been one of our best-selling seeds every year we have been in business! Thought by many to be the tastiest of the true kales and, due to its dark green color, likely...

(Brassica napus) Not often found in supermarkets due to their shorter shelf life, the oak-leaved kales are the most tender of all kales. Hailing from Siberia, Red Russian is extremely hardy, surviving temperatures to 10 below F! A lovely addition to salads as a baby leaf and a very productive...

(Brassica napus) Enjoy a lovely reintroduction, originally bred in Oregon and then rediscovered on a farm in Belgium by our good friends at Adaptive Seeds who brought it back to the marketplace. Purple-veined mature leaves develop secondary and tertiary degrees of frilling, giving the plants an amazingly voluminous and starry...