Each 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 MoreHeirloom vegetable tasting and seed swapping. Hay rides, bonfires, and a good, old-fashioned barn dance. All this—and more—is on tap for the 37th Annual Conference and Campout, to be held July 14–16 at Heritage Farm in Decorah, Iowa.
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 MoreSince 2011, the Member-Grower Evaluation Network (M-GEN) has been instrumental in evaluating the Seed Savers Exchange seed collection of over 25,000 varieties. In 2017, the program is relaunch and expanding under a new name.
Read MoreAt Seed Savers we sometimes jokingly referred to our collection of 103 turnips and 81 rutabagas as “turnabagas.” Confusion reigns over these crop types, owing to the fact that in the United Kingdom, a common name for rutabaga is “Swedish turnip.” Botanically, however, rutabagas and turnips are different species, Brassica napus and Brassica rapa, respectively, and will not cross-pollinate.
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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