Question: From reading your column for years, it seems like you like to grow vegetables in your garden. What we’d like to know is what are your favorite seed companies to buy seed from? I am ...

Sweet peppers, such as bell peppers, as well as hot peppers, cross-pollinate if planted within 400 feet, so if you want to ...

The Exchange, on Seed Savers’ website, pairs the people who save heirlooms with those who want them, all for the price of postage. By Margaret Roach I’m several hundred heirloom bean varieties deep in ...

Rancho Gordo's heirloom dried beans turn up on some of the swellest tables in the Bay Area, from Manresa to the French Laundry. With evocative names like 'Eye of the Goat' and 'Sangre de Toro' (bull's ...

Learn how Eleanor and Scott Hucker have turned their love of heirloom wheat seeds into a unique and fascinating small business of growing and selling small batch heirloom staple grain, bean, and ...

In mid-spring, the garden centers bloom with the year’s offering of new flower and vegetable plants. It’s a great time for gardeners. But it isn't here yet. We are still several months away from ...

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For those unsure of what an heirloom vegetable is, these are old varieties still maintained by farmers and gardeners, particularly in isolated or ethnic communities. Many would vanish forever if not ...

In an old French gardening book, the author describes the winter ordering of seeds for the new year’s garden. “We wait until the children are in bed. We must choose wisely because if the children were ...

Three freezers in Bill Best’s barn are filled with plastic zip-lock bags containing heirloom bean seeds. “We’ve probably got 700 to 800 varieties in here,” said Best, who has collected heirloom seeds ...

The beginning of the year is the perfect time to think about spring’s garden. I’ve resolved to grow a lot more heirloom plants from seeds this year. Although the definition varies slightly, the ...

In the extreme northeast corner of Iowa, on a grassy hillside ringed by meadows, limestone outcroppings and prismatic trout streams, an underground bunker safeguards our nation’s food heritage. Inside ...