Harvest Gallery: The Garden Behind the Seeds
Every August the kitchen counter disappears under the harvest, and every fruit on it started as a seed from our own stock. This is the garden behind the seed packets: a Kansas micro-farm where varieties earn their place in the catalog by surviving prairie wind, July heat, and squash vine borers before we will put our name on them.
No studio, no props. Just the counter, the dishwasher, and a bushel basket that has seen some things.
The August Harvest
Why we grow our own
A seed company that never plants its own seed is just a warehouse. We plant, we trial, and we save seed from the best fruits each season, because that is how heirlooms stay heirlooms and how we know what we are shipping. The moschata family anchors everything we do: thick stems the squash vine borer cannot easily tunnel, flesh worth the wait, and storage that carries a Kansas winter.
These pumpkins will cure for a few weeks, then feed us through winter while the best of them give up next season's seed. That cycle, seed to table to seed, is the whole story of Autumn Prairie Pumpkins.
Read our story • Browse the micro-farm gallery • Compare vine borer resistant varieties
