heirloom seed

History, specifically the Civil War, is what led him into heirloom seeds.

He is a writer, lecturer, and runs a business providing heirloom seeds.

Organic growing of heirloom seeds is practically a religion, definitely a cause.

Quite a few seed merchants and banks provide a large selection of heirloom seeds.

These and other traditional vegetables are grown from heirloom seeds on small farms near Kyoto.

Heirloom seeds are saved by hand and kept season after season, sometimes for centuries.

And about a dozen small companies have cropped up in the past 10 years to sell unusual heirloom seeds.

Members sell heirloom seeds for a nominal cost.

He is considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the heirloom seed saving movement.

I was looking at the offerings from the museum's Heirloom Seed Project.

While akin to endangered species, heirloom seeds are only a few mouse clicks and a credit card number away.

There is more to heirloom seed sales than Y2K.

One worldwide alternative is to submit heirloom seeds to a seedbank.

The new catalogues are not just talking fashionable perennials and old roses and heirloom seeds.

Heirloom seeds "breed true," unlike the seeds of hybridized plants.

They aren't just into old roses; they must have the oldest rose, and the most ancient forgotten heirloom seed.

Recently, local farmers have been growing an ancient strain of jet black rice, called kuro-gome, from heirloom seeds.

The company also shares its expertise in research, management advice and seed selection with growers who plant small plots of heirloom seed.

"I would estimate that about 2 percent of that is spent on heirloom seeds," said Bruce Butterfield, the association's research director.

Heirloom seeds can be easily collected and will continue to show the traits of the original seed because this family of tomatoes almost always self-pollinate.

Past displays have included a solar oven, gardening and heirloom seeds, green building, book exchange, pottery decorating, and masonry construction.

But there is also a lot of help, some of it provided in the catalogs of companies that specialize in heirloom seeds.

A common attribute of many seed libraries is to preserve agricultural biodiversity by focusing on rare, local, and heirloom seed varieties.

Seeds by Design, an heirloom seed wholesaler in Willows, Calif., said its sales had doubled each of the last three years.

They studied beans from India and Japan, and went on to learn about heirloom seeds, the more obscure and old-fashioned vegetable varieties.