The story begins with a handful of morning glory seeds that were carried across the Atlantic Ocean in 1884. Those seeds are a part of Diane Ott Whealy’s family legacy and they inspired the founding of ...

Visiting 45th Parallel Distillery & Seed Savers Exchange ends with an heirloom Bloody Mary Inga is invited to visit Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa to learn about saving seeds, but first she ...

Most vegetable seeds today are bred by seed companies to be hearty and easier to grow. They’re created by cross-breeding different varieties and selecting for specific characteristics. Heirloom seeds, ...

Natalie Aird, seed bank inventory coordinator at Seed Savers Exchange, organizes packets in a facility at the organization's farm in Decorah, Iowa. Often described as the Nobel of food and agriculture ...

Mike Bollinger of Decorah, Iowa, was recently named as executive director of Seed Savers Exchange by its board of directors. Bollinger has served on the board of Midwest Organic and Sustainable ...

The organization sells more than 1 million seed packets each year to the public through catalog and retail sales. About 70 percent of the organization's $5 million annual budget comes from general ...

Seed Savers Exchange managers are using an interactive sales data dashboard to analyze online orders by product, variety, customer and region, thanks to a summer research project conducted at Luther ...

This is the story of two 1960s back-to-the-land types who figured out how to make a living as flower children — and as tomato, bean and squash children. They came by this tendency honestly. Diane Ott ...

DECORAH, Iowa -- Andrea Springmeier dedicated time Jan. 5 to evaluating week-old lettuce seedlings. Springmeier, a collection technician for Seed Savers Exchange, was performing a laboratory ...