Haoma Selections is a small family run nursery in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. We focus on low-maintenance perennial food crops and useful plants. We offer a seasonal selection of trees, shrubs, perennial and medicinal plants, seeds, cuttings, scion wood and handmade products.
Our small urban property is a site of research, breeding and experimentation. It is a repository of genetic information started over a decade ago in search of uncommon edible and medicinal plants.
We are excited to be in the early stages of planning and planting a fruit and nut orchard in Nova Scotia. Your business supports us in our journey toward healthy food, medicine and biodiversity, which we hope to be able to share with you on a larger scale in the future.
When we aren’t busy in the garden you will find us raising our two children, making handmade tableware or working at other slow crafts.
To stay in the loop with our projects you can find us on Instagram, Facebook and sign up for our email newsletter. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Our current and upcoming offerings
Bare Root Trees & Shrubs
We raise and sell bare root fruit trees, nut trees and shrubs.
Limited quantities for 2024 available for local HRM (Halifax, NS) delivery and pick-up only.
Perennial and Medicinal Plants
Useful perennial and medicinal plants will be available locally. Arranged by appointment or at one of our annual plant sales.
Scion wood, cuttings & grafting
Seeds
Natural, open pollinated, untreated, non-GMO seeds. All our seeds are released under the OSSI pledge.You have the freedom to use these OSSI-Pledged seeds in any way you choose. In return, you pledge not to restrict others’ use of these seeds or their derivatives by patents or other means, and to include this Pledge with any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives. The OSSI Pledge ensures the Four Open Source Seed Freedoms for this and future generations:
The freedom to save or grow seed for replanting or for any other purpose.
The freedom to share, trade, or sell seed to others.
The freedom to trial and study seed and to share or publish information about it.
The freedom to select or adapt the seed, make crosses with it, or use it to breed new lines and varieties.
Learn more about the Open Source Seed Initiative at www.osseeds.org
Seeds ship Canada Post letter mail starting at $3.00 (CAD) to Canada, $5.00 (CAD) USA and $8.25 (CAD) International. Local pickup is also an option at checkout! We will email you with our Dartmouth address when your order has been processed and is ready.
Natural Products
We are always looking for ways to make our daily lives healthier, more sustainable and environmentally friendly. To aide in this quest we create small batch products such as tea, soap, tinctures and salves for our family to use. We hope to offer a limited quantity of these items in the shop. These may sometimes only be available for local pick-up.
IPM
If you are growing food you will have pests to deal with. We use JADAM principles for our integrated pest management. It is natural and gentle on the environment. We create our own JADAM products and offer them for sale to anyone interested. If this interests you we recommend getting a copy of the book JADAM Organic Farming.
Special Events
This past growing season we were pleased to host garden tours and our first annual pawpaw tasting event.
We hope to continue opening our gates to folks looking to learn more about the biodiversity possible within our 5-6b growing zone. These special events will be invite-only to our local newsletter subscribers as we have limited space.
Annual Plant Sales
We hope to offer our first in-person annual plant sale next spring. We will announce these on our social media, as well as to our local email newsletter subscribers. We look forward to meeting and chatting with other plant enthusiasts in our neighbourhood.
