Seed Savers Exchange Member Profile – Russ Crow (IL CR R)
Each year, hundreds of gardeners from all corners of the world share heirloom vegetable and fruit varieties they’ve collected from their own backyards. Within Seed Savers Exchange they’re known as...
View ArticleOur Apple Heritage with Dan Bussey
This past Friday, a dozen apple enthusiasts gathered at Heritage Farm for a heritage apple sampling and presentation by SSE’s orchard manager Dan Bussey. Dan’s encyclopedic knowledge of apple...
View ArticleEvaluation Program Highlights for 2012
The Evaluation Program Maintaining and distributing unique heirloom and open-pollinated seeds is the primary goal of the Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) gene bank. The Evaluation Program is an important...
View ArticleSSE Collection Bean 5396: ‘Theodore Meece’
At 96 years of age, Theodore Meece was honored as Kentucky’s Oldest Worker. While a heart ailment caused by old age slowed the accomplished centennialist as he grew older, Theodore continued to work on...
View ArticleSeed Savers Exchange Ships Two More Crates to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Untouchable by hurricanes, impervious to tectonic movement, protected by polar bears, and reachable only through methods worthy of reality television – the Svalbard Global Seed Vault provides the...
View ArticleCORE Project: Collier Cucumber
CORE: Unraveling the Stories Behind Our Seeds One summer during the 1950s, Graham Collier of Tennessee planted all the seeds he had of his family’s heirloom slicing cucumber. Little did he know, none...
View ArticleEvaluating Dried Legumes
With spring around the corner and a foot of snow still on the ground, the Seed Savers Exchange evaluation team has been evaluating dried legumes from last summer’s harvest. Beans, peas, and lima beans...
View ArticleApple Grafting to Preserve Diversity
“This apple comes from an old tree at my grandmother’s home, and it is the best apple I have ever tasted.” We hear this story a lot around here, and usually, the story ends like this: “Now the tree is...
View ArticleSlow Food, Slow Money… Slow Seeds
Over the past several months I’ve identified with the Johnny Cash song, “I’ve Been Everywhere.” I’ve been speaking at seed guilds, seed libraries, seed banks, seed rallies, seed conferences and seed...
View Article2013 Conference Preview: Evaluating Heritage Poultry
Jeannette Beranger and Alison Martin will be at the 2013 Seed Savers Exchange Conference and Campout representing the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy. They will be teaching a workshop titled...
View ArticleSeed Stories
Just looking at a seed, you really can’t tell much about it. Maybe you can identify the type of vegetable or flower it will grow, but what about its flavor, its history, its grow-ability? Now imagine...
View ArticleMary Ann Fox: Legacy of a Seed Saver
In my role as an inventory technician for the Preservation Collection at Heritage Farm, I encounter the mundane and meaningful in almost equal parts. There’s no reliable rhythm to it. Some days are...
View ArticleGarlic Escapades
Whether blended in a soup, pickled in a mason jar or baked in an omelet, eating is the best way to utilize scapes, a farm and garden byproduct of garlic. Seed Savers Exchange is conducting its first...
View ArticleVarietal Evaluations: Carrots
The Preservation Department at Seed Savers Exchange works hard to maintain the rare collection of heirloom varieties we’ve acquired from farmers and gardeners over the past few decades. In order to...
View ArticleMy Internship at Seed Savers Exchange
By Talinna Appling I discovered my passion for growing plants after spending a summer working for a local nursery in Helena, MT as a teenager. Several years later I decided I wanted to continue my...
View ArticleThis isn’t about nylon stockings… Seed Storage and You
Did you know that nylon stockings make the ultimate, multipurpose tool? They keep legs warm and physical imperfections under wraps; they are maggot barriers for emerging apples; and, in a pinch,...
View ArticleForgotten Tastes
Few people know that our garden heritage contains a rich diversity of thousands of apple varieties. The limited variety of modern commercial apples leaves little room to experience the diversity with...
View ArticleSpecial October Membership Offer
Become a Seed Savers Exchange member during October to take advantage of these special offers: Join Seed Savers and get a one-year subscription to Fine Gardening magazine – all for one low price of...
View ArticleStoried Vegetables: the Root of Quality
What if our relationship to food was like our relationship to storytelling; where mealtime, the end-product of a process, teems with meaning and soul? What if a carrot wasn’t just a carrot, but a...
View ArticlePreventing GMO Contamination in Your Open-Pollinated Corn
By Tor Janson, SSE Assistant Curator and Steve Carlson, SSE Communications Coordinator A Promiscuous Pollinator Corn (Zea mays) is what we around here consider a ‘promiscuous pollinator.’ That’s...
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