Missouri-based seed catalog and retailer Baker Creek was founded by Jere Gettle as a hobby. Raised on a homestead in the Ozarks, he started gardening at age 3 and learned to read by poring over his ...

ON PAGE 70 of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Catalog, a rakish gardener with a long white beard perches atop a tall ladder. Beside him a massive kale plant grows. A fulsome paragraph describes ‘Walking ...

The Yokohama squash was first introduced to North America around 1860, but it disappeared from catalogs in the 1880s — until now. Jere Gettle... Jere Gettle's Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co. offers ...

The Purple Galaxy Tomato splashed across the cover of this season's Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog: a closeup of a blackish-purple tomato speckled with tiny pink dots. Next to it, sits a sliced ...

The drafty old bank building in historic downtown Petaluma is empty no more. Jeremiah Gettle, 28, founder of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds of Missouri, has opened his first satellite store at Petaluma ...

This winter as seed catalogs started showing up in gardeners' mailboxes, one stood out. Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company splashed photos of the purple galaxy tomato on its cover. It bragged, This ...

The Whole Seed Catalog from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, weighing in at 532 pages, has hit my mailbox with a resounding thump. The Johnny’s Seeds catalog has arrived as well, with 206 pages of ...