A message from Coco the farm dog
We send orders out as soon as we can but this can be within 3-4 weeks of receiving them or more.
We are a small team and Rachelle has other part time work in addition to the farm and seed operation. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
Remember international orders take much more time (at least 6 weeks) due to the paper work needed for shipping between countries and the logistics to obtain this.
We had an apprentice with us for the summer of 2025 - Roisin Graham!
This was the first year we joined the Young Agrarians Apprenticeship program and we are so grateful to have had Roisin Graham work with us all summer from May to October!
I am sure we will be looking for an apprentice who will join us at our seed farm again sometime in the near future! Thanks again to Roisin and Young Agrarians for this wonderful experience.
Saskatchewan grown seeds
Founded in 1986, Prairie Garden Seeds is a small, family-operated seed company based in Saskatchewan, Canada, operated by daughter-father team, Rachelle Ternier and Jim Ternier.
Favas
Favas are fun and easy to grow! Broad/Fava Beans are Mediterranean in origin and so were the only beans grown in Europe until European contact with the Americas. Fava varieties range so much in diversity but few collections exhibit their diversity as ours do! They range in seed size from pea to toonie, and in seed colour from white, to yellow, to greens, to reds, to browns, to blacks! Dive in to the wonderful world of favas and discover the many ways the plant can be consumed as well. People have talked about eating the young leaves, young pods whole, fresh shell beans (raw or cooked) once the seeds are larger but not overripe, and the dry seeds rehydrated and cooked as a dry bean. The seeds themselves can be eaten peeled or not. They are also a valuable crop for maintaining soil fertility as they fix more nitrogen than other legume crops. They cross easily and must be isolated from each other if wanting to save pure seed. Like peas, they can be seeded as soon as the ground can be worked in the spring.
Grains & Cereals
Our collection of grains and cereals is probably the largest publicly accessible personal collection out there. Jim is a collector and so has accumulated varieties over the years, some of which are becoming of great interest to all of you in the last number of years! Check out the beauty and diversity that exists amongst a group of plants where we often only see a couple standard varieties. Of this collection, the diversity in our wheats is greatest, from einkorn wheats to spelts and emmers to species wheats to bread wheats and durum wheats! Pictured here is Warrior Barley.
