Four Forces Shape Your Growing Season
Accumulated Heat
Soil Temperature
Day Length
Frost Exposure
Together, these forces influence when conditions are ready, how plants develop, and whether there is enough season left to reach harvest.
The HEAT Compass™ brings them together with place-based weather and plant biology to help you understand what your garden is ready for next.
Know What Your Garden Is Ready For
The HEAT Compass™ connects the four forces in your location with actual weather and plant biology. It shows you the paths available now, whether that means starting indoors, planting outside, waiting for a better window, or choosing another variety.
Then it continues guiding you through tending, harvest, and the close of the season.
Intelligence for the Season. Tools for the Garden.
The HEAT Compass™ provides place-based guidance. Taiga’s seeds and practical resources help you carry that knowledge into the garden.
BUILT AROUND THE WAY THE NORTH GROWS
SEEDS FOR THE NORTH
Open-pollinated seed collections selected for cold climates, short seasons, and a meaningful harvest.
PLANTS THAT BELONG HERE
Cold-hardy nursery plants selected to produce food, support habitat, and endure Northern winters.
LEARN WHERE YOU GROW
Northern-tested workshops, growing guides, and stories from Cultivate.
Both Sides of the Garden Gate
Before becoming a certified organic farmer, Taiga founder Caroline Hegstrom spent more than a dozen years as a home gardener. After nine seasons at The Boreal Farm near Lake Superior, she has seen the same truth at every scale: the weather, soil, seeds, plants, and gardener are always changing. No two growing seasons unfold in quite the same way.
Taiga was built to help Northern gardeners make sense of that change.
