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.

A rare African eggplant resembles a ribbed heirloom tomato that somehow survived a freeze. A tiny pear-shaped yellow tomato from Cuba is still clinging to a tangle of old vines.

Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter -- these are names that make a tomato lover's heart race. They conjure up images of backyard plants grown from hard-sought seeds, of ...

Her specialty is rare heirloom tomatoes — 150 varieties of them — and she’s in expansion mode. ... to expand Carmel Bella Farm and its seed shop. Q How did this all begin?

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 ...

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 ...

From their home in a quiet stretch of Marin County near San Geronimo, two entrepreneurs are hoping to take gardening back to a time when an abundance of plant diversity was the norm. Matthew ...

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 ...

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 ...