Many of us know the term 'heirloom' when it comes to fruits and veg, but a lot of us don't know what it means. We explore what makes a plant 'heirloom.' ...

Heirloom vegetable cultivars are often very hardy ... Heirloom vegetables are open-pollinated, not hybridized, and the seeds ...

Image Heirloom bean packets are among 20,000-plus types of seeds preserved inside the seed bank at Seed Savers Exchange. With ...

Continuing her series about inspiring forward thinkers, Clare Foster meets business partners Kate Cotterill and Lucy ...

A box of harvested garden produce in a vegetable patch - Dougal Waters/Getty Images Heirloom seeds are considered valuable and, sometimes, preferable because they have more nuanced and complex ...

The seeds of these heirloom, or heritage plants, are conserved at their facility near Ryton. Part seed library, part museum, part botanical garden, the organisation distributes seeds to members ...

“Heirloom Vegetable Gardening” by William Woys Weaver is the culmination of some thirty years of first-hand knowledge of growing, tasting and cooking with heirloom vegetables. A staunch ...

We acquired those seeds from Anson Mills ... Despite his love for unique heirloom vegetable varieties, Pera acknowledges the reality that growing them is hard. “While growing this corn gives ...