When you select seeds for your garden, you have many varieties to choose from. Some are F1 hybrids; others are open-pollinated or heirloom. Though it might seem that a seed is just a seed, there are ...

What is Bloody Butcher: An heirloom red dent corn from 1800s Virginia, known for tall stalks, red-striped kernels, and use in flour, grits, and distilling. Why purity matters: Corn is wind-pollinated, ...

Q: I am going to start tomato plants indoors under lights this spring and then transplant them to my garden. I’m just looking at seed catalogs, and I see that some tomatoes are “open pollinated” and ...

Question: I’d like to buy local vegetable seeds this year. Can you recommend to us some Oregon seed companies that offer locally adapted seeds? I’d like to save my own seed from these vegetables, so I ...

It’s easy to see why the sunflower is one of the world’s favorite flowers. They’re easy to grow, have easy-to-save seeds, and are undeniably cheerful in the garden. Open-pollinated types are magnets ...

In the backyard of my grandparents’ house in rural Nebraska, my grandfather, a retired farmer, planted a small kitchen garden. But what I remember most was this big gruff man tending sweet peas that ...

'The more we don't protect open-pollinated seeds, the more we lose our right to save and grow our own food' Hayes Farm, a community-run urban farm in the heart of Fredericton's north side, invited ...