Welcome to the New Hope Seed Company!

New Hope Seeds is a small, family owned and operated organization located in Tennessee. We specialize in open-pollinated and heirloom vegetable seed varieties that are rare and not readily commercially available.

Several of the heirloom vegetable seed varieties that we offer are heirlooms from our own ancestors that have been passed down for many generations in our family. We also work to preserve heirloom and rare open pollinated plant varieties by locating, growing, documenting and offering to gardeners and farmers so they can have a chance to experience the 'goodness' of what our ancestors grew and enjoyed. In turn this helps to greatly insure their continued preservation.

We are proud to say that all of the seed we offer at this time are grown and produced here on our farm. Our seeds are rare, and hand produced by our family for your garden. We work hard at researching and locating rarer open-pollinated and heirloom varieties of usable and historical merit. Our goal is to provide you with the best possible quality of open-pollinated and heirloom seeds.

Our farm and the surrounding land that we cultivate have been in our family for many generations, dating back to the early 1800's. We are located in the rolling hills of Tennessee where we enjoy a reasonably long growing season and fairly mild winters.

Our preservation work has led us beyond open-pollinated and heirloom vegetable seeds and encompasses field crops like tobacco as well. Tobacco farming is deeply rooted in our family’s history and was a primary sources of farm income for us as well as our ancestors until only recently. Our ancestors who settled in Virginia around 1630 and later traveled to North Carolina in the early 1700’s are believed to be our earliest ancestors to have grown tobacco.

Our family's rich heritage in farming and growing tobacco here in Tennessee began about 1804 when our ancestors moved from North Carolina into Tennessee and settled a few miles from our present day farm location. Read more