As a teenager I enjoyed helping my parents in the vegetable garden, but I would always dread when the abundance of our harvest moved inside and my mother began the long and arduous task of processing ...

EPHRATA, Pa. — Windswept, frostbitten and bedraggled, Lisa Von Saunder’s little fenced vegetable garden seems an unlikely Noah’s Ark on a chilly November afternoon. A rare African eggplant resembles a ...

Only one seed company has operated for almost 200 years in America, and it’s called Comstock, Ferre & Co., founded in 1820 by James Lockwood Belden. You can find Comstock, Ferre in the 376-year-old ...

From seed catalogs and roadside stands to menus, we often see the phrase “heirloom tomato.” Let’s look at what the term heirloom means, and the differences between heirloom and hybrid tomatoes.

More than 250 years of Lancaster County agricultural history is still growing at Landis Valley Museum. Irwin Richman, director of research and development of the Heirloom Seed Project at the museum, ...

From their home in a quiet stretch of Marin County near San Geronimo, two entrepreneurs are hoping to take gardening back to a time when an abundance of plant diversity was the norm. Matthew Hoffman ...

Learn all about Sicily vegetable seeds and Sicilian fruit varieties. Get a comprehensive mediterranean vegetables list and check out Melodie Metje’s research about heirloom seeds and plant varieties.

Picking the right varieties will ensure you have tomatoes, cucumbers and other produce suitable to the types of dishes.