The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

Link:   A fun to read, eccentric history of Rochester that pays homage in one part to Sibley! From Seed Savers and many other sou...

Visit the Project Page.     " Entertaining and engaging, SEED follows heroes working tirelessly to preserve agricultural di...

 I love the old New Yorker covers - and not just because they give me something nice to post when I haven't had time to do a post for t...

T his tattered bit of the 1882 Hiram Sibley & Co. catalog is all that I can find.  It was offered on eBay some time ago and I downloade...

I cruise eBay for fascinating bits and pieces of the seed business past that float to the surface with astonishing regularity. Because I am...

"  When Ezra Cornell called his old an tagonist in business, (who had) become his best friend, into the board of trustees of Corne...

Here is the article, plus a few inserted tidbits, that I found so interesting the other day when researching Hiram Sibley, who I though...