The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

I n elementary school spring brings flowers into the brains of kids.  Green sticks with colorful blobs on top abound.  They are so cute it...

I t has been rainy and grey around here.  This collection of J. L. Childs catalogs is a gloom fix! In 1874 John Lewis C...

T his Guthrie-Lorenz store was in Des Moines, Iowa, 1911. Full photo below. When I first looked, I found very little online about ...

T he things one finds...on beaches and on internet searches! This find was very apposite given those coco de mer seed photos I just poste...

I am learning about printing history along with seed company history.  Unexpected, but cool. When I was a little kid my Pop took me int...

Mabel Lucie Attwell , the illustrator of the above rotund toddler, was born in 1879... the ninth child out of ten children born to a...

Miss Mary Martin...a seedswoman in the tradition of the other Misses I posted about earlier. I thought I had done something on Miss Mar...