Homecoming Seeds, Northfield, VT (2026)

01/29/2026

Thanks for the feature

And thanks to everyone who has placed a seed order, the support means a lot. It can be hard to put yourself out there but it feels so uplifting to have an outpouring of support from people who you haven’t even met but are rooting for your success. Grateful to be in a community and state that values their food and seed systems and agricultural life ways as much as people do here.

Spreading the word helps a lot for a new business where people just may not know we exist. We’re trying our best to get the word out, so if you know anyone who plans to garden this year, tell them about us!

Hope everyone had fun in the snow this week!

01/18/2026

ONLINE SEED CATALOG IS LIVE!!!

Thanks for your support, it means a lot. Your experience means a lot to us, so please let us know if you have any issues ordering so we can take care of it!

Pictured is Maria Amazilitei’s Giant Red Tomato! A heavy producer of 1lb + deliciously meaty tomatoes!

Also pictured: a happy farmer, candy mountain sweet corn, gourmet orange bell peppers, green egg yolk cherry tomato. All available in our catalog (except the farmer 😂)!

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01/12/2026

GIVEAWAY!

Did we get your attention?! Awesome, well we want to celebrate the beauty of collaboration in our amazing community of Vermont farmers. We’re partnering with our friends at Small Axe Farm to offer a sweet bundle of seed packets grown in Vermont by farmers dedicated to regional seed resilience. The bundle will include one variety of tomato and one variety of pepper of your choosing. All tomato and pepper varieties in our catalog were grown at Homecoming Seeds and Small Axe Farm… we’ll also throw in an awesome t-shirt (see design pictured).

To Enter:
- Like this post
- Follow Small Axe Farm + Homecoming Seeds
- Tag 3 people who are interested in regional seed resilience
- Winner will be randomly selected on Saturday, January 17th!

We are doing this in the lead up to our catalog launch on Saturday January 17th. Check out homecomingseeds.com to sign up for our newsletter and to visit the online catalog starting on Jan 17.

Read on to learn about Homecoming Seeds and Small Axe Farm. The first photo is Charlie and Evan together.

Homecoming Seeds is a farm-based seed company offering bio-regionally adapted seeds. Most of the seeds offered are grown in Northfield, Vermont by Charlie at his home farm called Flytree Farm. We also contract other farmers, who are also dedicated to our regional seed security, to grow seed for their catalog. This year we grew Sungold Select Tomatoes, Maria Amazilitei’s Giant Red Tomato (pictured), Pick-me-quick Red Bell Pepper, and Gourmet Orange Bell Pepper.

Small Axe Farm is located in Barnet, Vermont and run by Evan and Heidi, who run a no-till, off grid market farm growing diverse veg with a specialty in salad mixes, micro greens, shoots, heirloom tomatoes, salad turnips, radishes & cucumbers. This year they grew Chimayo Chile Peppers, Knyaz Peppers (pictured), and Green Egg Yolk Tomatoes for Homecoming Seeds Catalog.

01/09/2026

Hi eaters of Vermont!

My name is Charlie and I’ve been working hard all year to grow, harvest, process, and prepare a collection of vegetable seeds to sell in my inaugural online seed catalog. The launch date is set : January 17th my online store will be live for purchasing seeds.

Homecoming Seeds grows bio-regionally adapted open pollinated vegetable, flower, and herb seeds and our hope is that you make delicious meals with food grown from these seeds and share it with your neighbors, family, and friends!

We are a farm-based seed company – meaning most seeds in our catalog are grown on our home farm in Northfield, Vermont. If not grown by us, they’re grown by other local farmers who are also committed to strengthening our local seed system and adapting plants to this place.

We make the commitment to continually improve the resilience of the plants we steward. This happens through patient and careful selection for traits such as early maturity, cold hardiness, pest and disease resistance while also always prioritizing excellent flavors and productive plants. I love to grow things because I love to eat, so you can be sure the flavors are amazing too.

Check out my website homecomingseeds.com and sign up to be on my newsletter where I’ll be making announcements for the catalog launch. It will be a good way to stay in the loop with what’s going on here at the farm and with the seed catalog.

I’m grateful to be part of such a great agricultural community here in Vermont. Come visit this summer and check out our farm and gardens. And always feel free to reach out to chat or with questions, I love talking about gardening and plants.

01/07/2026

Hi folks,

I’m Charlie, the main person behind Homecoming Seeds. I wanted to introduce myself to new folks and people who may stumble upon this page as we prepare to launch our first seed catalog. It’s so exciting for me to be on the cusp of realizing a long term vision I’ve been working on for many years.

Really the idea for Homecoming Seeds first took hold while I was living in Montana and working on my PhD, when I met a community elder named John Austin back in 2019. I was giving a presentation about the research I was doing on soil fertility in high tunnel tomato production. He came up to me and said, “it’s nice to meet a young person that’s interested in tomatoes.” We chatted and soon became best friends as he became a garden and seed and life mentor to me as we started spending more and more time together. He introduced me and and invited me in to the world of seed keeping. I’ll tell more of the story about John over the course of this winter, because he’s an important part of how Homecoming Seeds came to be.

But, if you’re interested in learning more about me, your local seed farmer, I invite you to listen to a podcast that I did with my friend Vic. It’s called Bordertown - an awesome, placed-based collection of stories of people and place, situated here in the upper Winooski watershed. You can find the episode by searching bordertown and my name Charlie Watt.. and I’ll put a link in my bio too. Even if you know me, you might learn something new. Give it a listen and spread the word. Thanks for your interest and support.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0UMO3PM04g9D54xXCq9Yih?si=KDXzTaxWShW9EZ43z9yWsw

01/04/2026

It’s catalog launch month!!

Yep, you read it right. So much hard work and love has gone into this we couldn’t be more excited.

We wanted to tease a few of our seed packets that came out better than we ever imagined. It was a long and fun design process and we’re so grateful and in awe of our friend Marek who designed these. The hope is that you will receive the seeds in something as beautiful as the seeds themselves - that you will also receive a little keepsake to hold onto even after the seeds have been planted.

Marek is also the brains and heart behind our website, ANNND is designing some t shirts and a poster for us. Can’t wait to share those with the world too.

Anyways, just wanted to get you all excited for what’s to come. Stay tuned as we get ready for the online store to go live on January 17th!!

12/30/2025

As we near the years end and as I reflect on all that was accomplished this year on the farm, I can’t help but think of where we’d be if it wasn’t for this guy right here. A million thanks wouldn’t be enough to express my gratitude for my dad who supported me in getting this farm and business off (or in) the ground this year. He came up for 3 whole months to give me a hand. Day in and day out, he treated it like his most important job… and often it was the unglamorous, tiring, and monotonous duties like hauling compost (uphill), shaping beds, and weeding so that I could focus on many of the finer details of getting my systems in place, infrastructure developed, or just walk around the garden with a notebook making observations. He’d just tell me when a bed was ready and I’d come with seeds and we’d plant the bed. He’d go on to the next bed while I went off in another direction. In the moment it was great- he’s a curious guy and I love talking about everything farming, so it was a good combination - but I know looking back on this past summer will be a core memory I will cherish of my dad and his role in supporting me and how his labors of love helped homecoming seeds to sprout in this crucial period. So grateful for you, dad.

12/05/2025

This kale survived and thrived as low as 17 degrees before putting under 3 layers of row cover. We got down to -8 this morning and I’m extra grateful for the near foot of snow we have to provide that extra insulation. We also have radicchio in the field under 2 layers of row cover.

I am also trying something with my rutabaga and turnips that is probably not advised, but wound up packing them in wood shavings in a tote with holes and burying them in a big topsoil pile to overwinter in. Also grateful for the snow layer for the added insulation it provides.

Truth is, I didn’t have the capacity or conditions to store these plants the way it’s usually recommended (e.g., heel the kale into soil in a high tunnel for the winter; store the roots in a high humidity environment just above freezing for the winter). It will be fun to do the great reveal come springtime to see how they fared in these overwintering conditions. Specifically for the kale, it will be great to see just how hardy this variety is.

I did ask a dear friend if they could store my onions in their root cellar, so I have hope for these beauties at least. Thanks Sylvia.

December is busy!! Prepping for online catalog launch for early January. Still have beans and squash to finish processing then to finish germination testing on everything else. Another dear friend Marek created the most stunningly beautiful seed packets I’ve ever seen, so I can’t wait to share those with you! I’ll share some pics soon. Take care my friends.

12/02/2025

The slow, dark days of winter are upon us. We’re turning in, slowing down, and letting our hands guide our work. With a catalog launch weeks away and another farm season to plan for, it’s easy to get swept up into the to-do’s and business of the future. Instead we’re trying to be present, finish the harvest as we can, and listen to all the music, books, and podcasts that this season allows. Cup of tea and some candles optional.

Stay tuned in the weeks to come for updates about our inaugural catalog launch. Til then 🫘🫛☕️🎵🎶🕯️

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