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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

'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 ...