MANCHESTER — Along with the many hours pulling weeds, mixing in compost and sweating under a warming sun, many gardeners insist there is a peacefulness to their pathos, a point where labor and Zen ...

These August afternoons, you'll find Amy Goldman out in the fields of her Hudson Valley farm, reveling in the harvest of her heirloom tomatoes. Goldman's love of the crop is no casual fling. For the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeremiath "Jere" Gettle, founder of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, is riding high on the home gardening movement. But the passionate preservationist is the last one to toot his own horn. The way he sees ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. If you’re curious at all about the heirloom seed craze, you might want to check out two recent books. The newest is a memoir by ...

An ‘heirloom mixologist’ says the focus on preserving seeds ignores the possibilities of more vigorous and healthy plants I want to talk about the problematic concept of heirloom seeds. Now, this will ...

Nope, that’s not a corny joke – it’s the actual evolution of Ken Greene’s career. In 2004, Greene was a children’s librarian at the public library in Gardiner, New York, when he found himself spending ...

Rodger Winn traces his obsession with seed saving to the first grade. As a little boy, he read “Seeds and More Seeds: A Science I CAN READ Book” by Millicent E. Selsam and “drove my mother crazy with ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. In 2011, Luke Marion founded a small heirloom seed ...