Saving heirloom tomato seeds ensures that the precious, delicious tomatoes from yesteryears find themselves growing again in the gardens of the future By Marjorie Beausoleil | Updated on December ...

They looked at the seeds and saw cosmic significance. “This is just like validation that what we’re doing with our lives is exactly what we should be doing,” said Inciardi, 26.

This country’s largest independent seed bank is managed by the Seed Savers Exchange, an organization founded by a pair of Missouri gardeners in 1975 to facilitate heirloom-seed swaps among growers.

Here’s everything you need to know about these late-summer treasures, according to a gardener: what they are, the best varieties, and even how to grow your own.

The Purple Galaxy Tomato splashed across the cover of this season's Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog: a closeup of a blackish-purple tomato speckled with tiny pink dots. Next to it, sits a ...

What are heirloom vegetables? Learn about the heirloom seeds definition and the many advantages over modern hybrid seeds. Most have superior taste and nutrition and have developed resistance to ...

Over the last 30 years I have tried several hundred tomato varieties, particularly heirloom tomatoes. Beware if the word “rare” is ever in the description. Usually they are rare for good ...

Heirloom tomatoes have been open-pollinated over time — pollinated randomly accomplished by animals, wind and rain. Hybrid tomatoes are deliberately cross-pollinated, and derived from the seeds ...

An heirloom tomato she has nurtured for most of her adult life, called "Peg O' My Heart," has been accepted into the Seed Savers Exchange. Located just outside of Decorah, Iowa, the Seed Savers ...

Heirloom garden plants are old varieties that are open-pollinated, allowing home gardeners to save seed and preserve the plant’s unique adaptations, flavors, and appearance for generations.

And while they’re lovely fresh off the bush, that’s not the only way Harrison uses them. “I actually sun-dried some,” he ...