The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

This article is from the  1850 Cottage Gardener and Country Gentleman's Companion , Volume 3.  I haven't found much more about t...

When you strip away all the intellectual reasons why I keep poking around in the past after seed related facts and stories, what is left is...

T his article is a good read. A   part of seed history I wasn't aware of, it is an  overview of the history of how seeds from Russia sa...

Russian farm scene showing thatched-roof buildings, with horses and barn in left foreground The Great Plains of the United States...

I had no clue that planting sunflowers used to be considered an excellent way to prevent malaria! The swampy lowland around Washingto...