A longtime garden writer shares her go-to sources for flower, veggie, and herb seeds.

Read the seed packet or catalog and make sure what you buy is labeled open-pollinated or heirloom, not hybrid. My grandfather grew what we now call heirloom tomatoes: time-tested varieties that breed ...

Diane Ott Whealy, co-founder of Seed Savers Exchange will give a presentation called “Demystifying Heirloom Gardening,” from 6 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, June 28 at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. The ...

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 ...

Its paper catalog is available for free, “and always will be,” according to its website. This year’s edition offers over 380 ...

The heirloom vegetables found at farmers' markets are beloved for more than their kooky appearance and trendy appeal: Cooks enjoy having access to a wider, more interesting variety of tomatoes, peas ...

January is a good month for hibernating while browsing newly-arrived seed catalogs. As you flip through the pages, warm thoughts of sunny summer days and fresh, ripe tomatoes come to mind. In Minot, ...

From their home in a quiet stretch of Marin County near San Geronimo, two entrepreneurs are hoping to take gardening back to a time when an abundance of plant diversity was the norm. Matthew Hoffman ...

As a teenager I enjoyed helping my parents in the vegetable garden, but I would always dread when the abundance of our harvest moved inside and my mother began the long and arduous task of processing ...

More than 250 years of Lancaster County agricultural history is still growing at Landis Valley Museum. Irwin Richman, director of research and development of the Heirloom Seed Project at the museum, ...

Apr 20, 2018 Apr 20, 2018 Updated Jan 15, 2022 0 In January of 2016, Carol Barany, our Master Gardener segment writer, wrote a story for Yakima Magazine about Phyllis Pugnetti. At the time, Phyllis ...