Our Story
Photography by Andree Thorpe
Putting flavour on the table.
We at Kitchen Table Seed House are dedicated to providing the most productive and flavourful varieties of organic vegetables, herbs and flowers for you to grow and enjoy - both in your gardens and in your kitchens.
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Our farms
Located on Wolfe Island, just a ferry ride from downtown Kingston, Ontario. Our crops are grown over three acres in two separate fields. This allows us to rotate our crops to minimize pest and disease pressure as well as provide isolation to maintain our seed purity. Our sites are managed and our crops are grown organically and certified by Eco Cert. We are proud members of the National Farmers Union and the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario.
Our focus
We place much emphasis on growing and offering you varieties that are well suited to our bio-region and that offer maximum flavour. We seek to inspire you to share a meal with family and friends from vegetables, herbs and flowers grown in your garden.
We're working to improve existing varieties to better perform in our region's climate and soils as well as develop new varieties of vegetables that are flavourful, productive and better suited for organic systems. We value collaboration and building connections and are energized by working with our fellow plant breeding partners through SeedWorks, our newly formed breeding club. Want to know more? Just ask! Annie is always happy to talk about it.
Our farmers
Two of us make up Kitchen Table Seed House. We not only share the growing but the cooking and the eating too. In fact, it was around a kitchen table that we decided to join forces and put our skills, passion and knowledge together to offer you the best quality seeds we can produce from varieties we've come to love.
Kathy Rothermel
Kathy is a gardener, organic seed producer and mother.
A life-long love of the country, and a desire to share that experience with her family, led to a move to Wolfe Island. Meeting local seed savers opened her world to the necessity of regional seed for the growth of a resilient and robust food system.
She is a founding member of the Kingston and Area Seed System Initiative (KASSI), co-founder of Kitchen Table Seed House and is active in National Farmers Union Local 316.
This work has been a natural extension of her socially active family and community life, and her strong belief in the importance of gathering to share good food around the kitchen table.
