The seed catalogs have started arriving. Every year at this time they begin slithering through the mail slot with all their enticing photos and glorious possibilities. One of the most original, and ...

BEREA — Bill Best keeps almost 700 varieties of heirloom bean seeds at the Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center, which is at his farm in the Knobs country of Madison County just outside of Berea.

As soon as the flood of Christmas cards slowed to a dribble, an avalanche of garden catalogs filled up my mailbox. Mixed into the usual list of big catalogs like Johnny’s Select Seeds, Territorial ...

A 17-year-old kid starts a business in his bedroom that grows to nearly $4 million in annual sales. Must be software, right? In fact, Jere Gettle's Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co. (rareseeds.com) could ...

Anna Fry red beans get their name from the woman who grew them a century ago. Early in the growing season, she planted sugar peas along a fence in her home in the village of Mastersonville. Once those ...

I maintain that buying seeds is truly the best kind of shopping—seeds are relatively affordable and are literally bursting with potential. Quite frankly, I think seeds are a miracle; you get a small ...

In a corner of the recently expanded Charlotte Library, a two-drawer card catalog sits on a mustard-yellow floral tablecloth. But instead of old-school index cards listing books, its drawers hold ...

On the last day of November my first 2020 seed catalog arrived. The timing could not have been better. Thanksgiving sticks a fork into the growing season, marking the end of harvest and ushering in a ...

Rodger Winn traces his obsession with seed saving to the first grade. As a little boy, he read “Seeds and More Seeds: A Science I CAN READ Book” by Millicent E. Selsam and “drove my mother crazy with ...

Apr 20, 2018 Apr 20, 2018 Updated Jan 15, 2022 0 In January of 2016, Carol Barany, our Master Gardener segment writer, wrote a story for Yakima Magazine about Phyllis Pugnetti. At the time, Phyllis ...

On the last day of November my first 2020 seed catalog arrived. The timing could not have been better. Thanksgiving sticks a fork into the growing season, marking the end of harvest and ushering in a ...