Hasta La Ideas

Long Island Cheese Pumpkins. Double Yield Cucumbers. Mammoth Grey Stripe Sunflowers. Recognizing that these evocatively named crops are ripe for illustration, the Hudson Valley Seed Company created Art Packs, seed packages that feature the work of 11 artists from New York’s Hudson Valley. Bridge to Paris Pepper, borne from a hybrid pepper called Paris and produced by Phillies Bridge Farm, features an antique photograph of the Eiffel Tower, while rodent-loving artist Ayumi Horie jumped at the chance to illustrate Rat’s Tail Radish, named for its distinctively curled edible pods. Designed by Sarah Snow of Treeo Design, the colorful packages unfold like flowers and are printed using earth-friendly inks on recycled paper. At $3.50 each, Art Packs are a perfect (and economical) gift for anyone with a creative eye and a green thumb.