Gettle often uses the kitchen for family meals because she prefers its commercial Garland stove.
Gettle edits the Heirloom Gardener quarterly at an iMac on an antique desk in the living room.
"It's a cross between the old and the new, " says Mr. Gettle, describing their homestead and lifestyle.
The bedroom where Mr. Gettle started the seed business is now a library.
But the Missouri clapboard house and its village are the Gettle family's home.
Mr. Gettle says some clutter, including a collection of Asian antiques, was moved to the pioneer village beyond a picket fence.
Then Harriet's Mercantile, which sells Granny Opal's Blueberry Muffin Mix (Granny Opal being Mr. Gettle's 78-year-old grandmother) and which has a seed museum upstairs.
Gettle, 29, who spins her own yarn with wool from their five rams, then turned a bedroom into a craft room for her spinning wheel.
Gettle likes a 1950s palette, so she chose robin's-egg-blue paint for the main hallway, pale yellow for the kitchen and pink in the dining room.
Mr. Gettle, 32 years old, started Baker Creek Heirloom Seed from his upstairs bedroom in 1998 in the home at the center of the homestead.
Every week, people from as far away as the Ukraine or as close as Appalachia send Mr. Gettle their own heirloom seeds, each with a story.
The Gettle house overall, however, is noticeably clutter-free.
His parents years ago moved to the other side of the valley, so Mr. Gettle now shares the house with his wife and their 5-year-old daughter, Sasha, along with a pug, three cats and an array of fish.
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