(Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co./rare seeds.com via AP) If you’d like to save rice for replanting next year, put some aside before removing the hulls; they’ll need to be intact for the seeds to ...

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.

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.

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.

So, are all these heirloom cherry tomatoes hanging plants? Not exactly. While none are truly compact or “bush” varieties (those would be determinate types), they do have different degrees of ...

What started out in 1998 as a small midwestern operation championing heirloom vegetables has fast grown into the nation’s leader in old and odd open-pollinated seeds, including some 1,200 ...

Sara Straate, the seed historian at Seed Savers Exchange, inside the nonprofit’s 30-by-10-foot walk-in freezer, the country’s largest nongovernmental seed bank, where more than 20,000 heirloom ...

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 ...

He joyfully presents some of his favourite seeds – a rare kind of tomato called “joy of the orchards” in ... Some of the 1,000 heirloom seeds and more stored in Buzuruna Juzuruna’s seed ...

Still’s company specializes in rare heirloom seeds, many of which he and his partner collected during trips to Europe. “We grow lots of vegetable, flower and herb seeds, as many as we can grow,” Still ...

Safana Hussain replied: To find reliable suppliers of heirloom seeds for sustainable agriculture, start by researching reputable companies with a track record of providing high-quality seeds.

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 ...