The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

In 1898 the Farmers and Fruit-growers' Guide had a very thorough article about the different type of corn. A fact filled article with ...

S chool is out!   While I'll still go in to school to get things stowed away I can think about this blog again. So here is seed ca...

I have to confess the image below is as found on Biodiversity History.  I didn't like the red.  Did you know females see more shad...

T his is hard to beat for happy sweet.  D. M. Ferry had a good illustrator. Just for fun, compare it to the Barnard attempt at the same fe...

Jerome B. Rice's Seed Company has the most fantastic trade cards.  Much better than any others. But other than that I had not found mu...

Y ou absolutely knew how your garden would make you feel when looking at this Burpee catalog cover! 

This is a happy cabbage, don't you think? Some days it is harder to find Happy than others...