“What’s your favorite type of garlic?”
That’s not a question most of us typically ask one another, but at Seed Savers Exchange it’s often posed among our staff, especially at this time of year.
Read MoreWe recently visited with Lou Ann Hall—SSE Retail Seed Program manager and gardener extraordinaire—to learn more about the lush and inviting small-space garden (100 square feet, give or take) she created this spring on the sprawling grounds of Heritage Farm in Decorah.
Read MoreIs there a better way to celebrate summer than enjoying a concert outdoors—among friends and under the stars—to raise funds for a great cause? We think not!
Read MoreOne summer during the 1950s, Graham and Margaret Collier of Nashville, Tennessee planted all the seeds they had of their family’s heirloom slicing cucumber. Little did they know, none of the plants would survive that summer’s drought. But that's not where the story ends.
Read MoreEach April since 1978 John Simmons of Pontotoc, Mississippi, has done what his mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and, yes, great-great-grandmother all did before him: pull out a spade, till the soil, and sow the seeds of the family’s ‘Grandma George’ heirloom beans.
Read MoreSeed Savers Exchange member Sara McCamant of Sebastopol, California, has never met a garden plot she didn’t like. “Gardening’s in my blood,” she says. “Growing up in a family of gardeners, I’ve always had a passion for planting things and digging in the dirt.”
Read MorePart of our work at Seed Savers Exchange includes documenting and evaluating varieties from our collection so that we can learn more about the collection. Read about the results for 2016 and what's on the docket for 2017.
Read MoreIt’s April, and that means that gardening conversation in most parts of the country has begun to turn to direct-sow seeds for cool-season crops—crops like ‘Grandma Hadley’s’ lettuce, a rare butterhead variety Seed Savers Exchange has stewarded since 1988.
Read MoreHow can you and your garden help us find out more about the global biodiversity associated with the plants in gardens? One way is to participate in agricultural citizen science projects being started by a group of scientists at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
Read MoreAs an adult, Phil stewarded ‘Big Brown’ as carefully as his parents, Maude and Walter, had before him. Yet despite his painstaking efforts to preserve it, Phil became increasingly concerned that his beloved bean seed would not survive...
Read MoreSeed Savers Exchange is a nonprofit, member supported organization that collects, preserves and shares heirloom seeds for our future. Since 1975, SSE and our supporters have collected the seeds and stories that would otherwise have been lost.
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