Category Archive: Events

Talking Trees Installation at Heritage Farm

Tree

Talking Trees is an outdoor sound installation created by Brooke Joyce and Harvey Sollberger. Talking Trees began as a casual, post-concert conversation between composers Brooke Joyce and Harvey ... Read More »

Slow Food, Slow Money… Slow Seeds

Shell Bean Diversity

Over the past several months I’ve identified with the Johnny Cash song, “I’ve Been Everywhere.” I’ve been speaking at seed guilds, seed libraries, seed banks, seed rallies, seed conferences ... Read More »

Cow Art. Talking Trees. Rare Plants.

Grassfed

Seed Savers Exchange will host two month-long outdoor art exhibits at Heritage Farm beginning in May.  “Grassfed,” by artist Valerie Miller of Steel Cow studio in Waukon, Iowa, features ... Read More »

Apple Grafting to Preserve Diversity

Pewaukee apple

“This apple comes from an old tree at my grandmother’s home, and it is the best apple I have ever tasted.” We hear this story a lot around here, and usually, the story ends like this: “Now the ... Read More »

Remembering Tom Knoche

Tom Knoche

Tom Knoche (OH KN T), 1938-2013 Sardinia, OH   By Diane Ott Whealy Kent and I first met Tom and Sue Knoche in 1981 when they attended the first Seed Savers Exchange campout in ... Read More »

Debunking the Hybrid Myth

Navazio's workshop in the rain

At the Seed Savers Exchange Conference this summer, Dr. John Navazio 's talk, "Debunking the Hybrid Myth," laid out the hybrid vs. open-pollinated argument.  Here's a peek at John's speech, the whole ... Read More »

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