When Will Bonsall was growing up in Waterville in the 1950s and ’60s, his family lived modestly, and their grocery budgets were often tight. His folks weren’t much for gardening, and what fresh ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baker Creek Heirloom Seed founders Jere Gettle and his wife, Emilee, are on a mission to make the world a better place, one vegetable at a time. Not only do they want to keep heirloom varieties alive ...

The Cherokee Nation will begin dispersing its limited supply of heirloom seeds Feb. 1 to tribal citizens who are interested in growing traditional Cherokee crops. In 2018, the Cherokee Nation ...

The Cherokee Nation is the first US Tribe to deposit culturally important crop seeds in the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard Seeds from nine rare heirloom food crops, such as Cherokee White Eagle Corn, ...

Ira Wallace ambles around the butcher block countertop in the kitchen she shares with a community of farmers in central Virginia. She has separated a single leaf from the large baskets of unusual, ...

The Mansfield-based Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co. has sued a California company in federal court over alleged trademark infringement. The Ozarks company, which started in 1998 and has grown to become ...

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

Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism.