Nurseries, home improvement stores and even grocery stores may have racks of seeds available when it’s time to start gardening, but there’s nothing like looking through seed catalogs, especially when ...

BEREA — Bill Best keeps almost 700 varieties of heirloom bean seeds at the Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center, which is at his farm in the Knobs country of Madison County just outside of Berea.

A new layer of snow has fallen on Chester County and the ground is like stone, but the 2014 gardening season has already begun. It arrived in the flurry of seed catalogs that started showing up in my ...

Anna Fry red beans get their name from the woman who grew them a century ago. Early in the growing season, she planted sugar peas along a fence in her home in the village of Mastersonville. Once those ...

As soon as the flood of Christmas cards slowed to a dribble, an avalanche of garden catalogs filled up my mailbox. Mixed into the usual list of big catalogs like Johnny’s Select Seeds, Territorial ...

I maintain that buying seeds is truly the best kind of shopping—seeds are relatively affordable and are literally bursting with potential. Quite frankly, I think seeds are a miracle; you get a small ...

It’s that time again. Winter-weary imaginations are stoked by the glossy color photos and artful descriptions in the seed catalogs. My job is to wade through the offerings and try to find the new and ...

On the last day of November my first 2020 seed catalog arrived. The timing could not have been better. Thanksgiving sticks a fork into the growing season, marking the end of harvest and ushering in a ...

In a corner of the recently expanded Charlotte Library, a two-drawer card catalog sits on a mustard-yellow floral tablecloth. But instead of old-school index cards listing books, its drawers hold ...

LITTLE MOUNTAIN, S.C. — Rodger Winn traces his obsession with seed saving to the first grade. As a little boy, he read “Seeds and More Seeds: A Science I CAN READ Book” by Millicent E. Selsam and ...

Picking the right varieties will ensure you have tomatoes, cucumbers and other produce suitable to the types of dishes.