Making the Case for Old Food

Every year that I garden I realize so much more just how important heirloom plants are. I know that I’m carrying on a legacy and helping to keep a variety of plant alive another year. Some of these plants are considered in danger of extinction by Slow Food USA via the Ark of Taste. Take [...]

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Advice on ordering seeds

Seed catalogs have been streaming into my mailbox and whetting my appetite for spring. If there was a 12 step meeting for vegetable seeds, I surely would be a candidate—I find the descriptions irresistible and want to plant everything I see. However, I’ve learned over the years that carefully selecting which seeds to grow in the garden [...]

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Seed Packets

It’s easy to store your saved seeds into envelopes and I’m sure that’s what most folks do most of the time, myself included.  However, from time to time, I like to give seeds saved from my garden as part of a gift and in that case, I like to do something a little more special [...]

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Reader’s Question :: Seed Saving

Reader’s Question: What advice do you have for folks wanting to get started in saving their own seeds? Kathie’s Answer: I think its easy to start seed saving with beans and peas.  Let those pods dry on the vine, remove the dried seeds from the pods and put the seeds into a paper or cloth envelope.  [...]

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