Two Wings Farm has been growing gourmet heritage and heirloom vegetables for the fresh market since 1986. Over the years, we have trialled many varieties, always looking for the ones that perform best in our particular bioregion. For us, taste and nutrition have always been the first priority. We do not buy seed from elsewhere for resale. All our seed was grown on our farm by us, and is B.C. Certified Organic by Islands Organic Producers  Association.

Several years ago our farm was part of the I.F.O.A.M. Conference tour. We met organic growers from all over the world . The same shocking message kept coming through... They said they could not get organic open pollinated seed in their own countries. Since then, I've come to feel that it is more critical than ever that we all save seed. Get together with friends, neighbours, garden groups- start a seed bank.

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Two Wings Farm, 4768 William Head Rd. Victoria, BC, V9C3Y7

NOTE- We have had problems at the US. border, and so we ask those customers (USA) to please e-mail us before placing an order-

   Welcome to our 12th year, 2010. This past summer was sunny and very dry in our area, good conditions for collecting quality seed.

We spent time last winter in Mexico. While things appeared to fall apart in the north, life in a small town in the Sierra Madre foothills went on. These things that busy us, and distract us are really not so important after all, we learn. Life goes on, in spite of the men in suits who think they are in charge, the real world is made up of you and I, on the ground (literally) in the gardens and fields, growing food for our families, and the other families at the markets. Its the Farmers Market, not the Stock Market where real life happens, and politicians and financial types are worlds away from that life struggling for power and control and completely out of touch.

While we were in Mexico, we had the great fortune to come across Pronatura, an NGO working to concerve delicate and endangered bio-regions and bird and animal habitat. Also helping the people living in these areas, with social/economic development. We were invited out to a tiny village of about 30 homes. A beautiful, serene very tidy little village in the hills.The idea of this eco/cultural project is for the participants to be paired up with the artesanias, and be involved with and try their craft. A showcasing of their arts and crafts, and how they live. We were with Don Ramon, who is a wood carver. We tried our hand at what he does so well, and found it was not as easy as he made it look.Their garden and little home was immaculate. They even sweep their gardens! After that, we were invited to a rancho and shared a meal of handmade tortillas, a stew of beef, chiles and nopale cactus, and fresh cheese. It was a wonderful day and a lesson in simplicity and how the simple things become amazing things when shared with wonderful people. We hope this project helps generate a better income for these proud and innovative people who so generously welcomed us into their homes. Thanks to Elena and Carlos, and the friends we made.

This year we have- guess what...A NEW TOMATO! I know I keep saying it...No more tomatoes...but...

My friend Marsha from Salt Spring gave me this beautiful yellow tomato to try, and it is wonderful. Now.. I find that there are many very underwhelming yellow tomatoes. I'm sorry, but Taxi and the Lemon Boy types have no flavour! and if it is going to get space in my garden it needs to have great flavour. Otherwise what's the point. right? and so Yellow Mandarin is a great plant that I had to share. Productive, 4 inch golden yellow, with flavour! I really like it and when I like something I simply have to share it! Thanks Marsha. -Also-, one of the stars in the field was Mountain Princess. An old variety that I grew out again last season. I had forgotten just how good this little tomato is! So I thought I'd offer it again. It is a small determinate plant. Very early to set fruit and when it does it rewards you with a bumper crop of 3 inch firm, orange/red beauties, with great flavour and fine skin.Good in the ground or in a container. Very impressive despite the weather! I have also re-listed several other old favourites that I had not previously had on the website, because I find that tomato growing is very much a trial and error thing. You have to sometimes try several before you find one that truely fits your conditions. I know that, for example, the tomatoes that are grown in the hot humid summers of Ontario-with the greatest success, sometimes don't perform or taste as good here on the west coast. Often it takes growing and saving the seed for a few consecutive seasons until the full potential is realized. Think of it as an adventure!

We look forward to another season full of promise and good things to eat and share with friends. There's nothing like sitting down with friends to a meal made from the fruits and vegetables of your own field. Bernie and I often remark about how sad it is that some people have never even had the pleasure of a "real" tomato still warm from the sun! . How very lucky we are.

We will once again be at several "Seedy Saturdays" on Vancouver Island, the lower mainland,and Saltspring Island. Here is a list of dates and places:

Feb. 6th Qualicum Beach Civic Centre

Feb. 14th Salt Spring Farmers Hall

Feb. 20th Victoria Convention Centre

Feb. 27th Vancouver - Van Dusen Garden

Mar. 6th Courtenay - Florence Filberg Centre

Mar. 7th Nanaimo - Bowen Park

Mar.13th Cobble Hill Hall

All the best for the season, Marti

      Important message: We have had problems sending seed through the US border, and so we ask those customers to e-mail us when placing an order

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  We need to eliminate the extremes of wealth and poverty in the world, and not be disheartened by the enormity of the work that needs to be done. Part of what will help subsistence farmers (both here and abroad) to survive is access to open pollinated seed (their own seed) that can be saved from year to year, and the legal right to do so, free from interference.. whether it be from multinational corporations, government policy, or contamination from GMO pollen.