There is certainly no lack of lessons to learn in this vast arena of growing crops and seeds. A lot of old fashioned and open-pollinated stuff. I grew their Boston Morrow squash this year, and it was the largest in my garden, shaped like Hubbard, but with soft, orange skin. Good flavor and moist. They have been dependable on ripening a moderate crop of small paste tomatoes, despite blight and the fact that they appear to be a somewhat unstable genetic variety lots of diversity in the fruit, although I have been selecting for the best past characteristics.
Flavor is bland though.
Nova has been doing better. Jim Ternier of Prairie Grown Seeds, Saskatchewan, Canada, has a number of short season tomatoes listed, including several that were bred in Quebec especially for cool June nights. Someone had sent them the seed which had been grown in Houghton County since 1940 s, and they passed it on to me. It was dropped from commercial sources between 1988 and 1991. There was one person from Vermont offering the seed through the Seed Savers Exchange in 1993, but I received no response to my inquiry to him, and the next year that listing was gone.