When Will Bonsall was growing up in Waterville in the 1950s and ’60s, his family lived modestly, and their grocery budgets were often tight. His folks weren’t much for gardening, and what fresh ...

MENDOTA, Va. — Margie Dean looks forward to this time of year when she can attend to her flower and vegetable gardens at her Mendota home. This year, she’s planting Sadie’s Horse Runner Beans, a rare ...

EPHRATA, Pa. — Windswept, frostbitten and bedraggled, Lisa Von Saunder’s little fenced vegetable garden seems an unlikely Noah’s Ark on a chilly November afternoon. A rare African eggplant resembles a ...

Seed preservationist John Coykendall, also a trained artist, keeps detailed journals of all of his seed expeditions, something he calls "memory banking." (Debbie Elliott/NPR) The modern farm-to-table ...

It was hot in Louisiana, and after 15 hours in the car to get there from Virginia, Joshua Fitzwater and Debra Freeman stepped into the humidity that is common in the community of Calhoun. They had ...

The Mansfield-based Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co. has sued a California company in federal court over alleged trademark infringement. The Ozarks company, which started in 1998 and has grown to become ...

The modern farm-to-table movement has renewed interest in heirloom fruits and vegetables. But long before the trend, John Coykendall has been on a mission to preserve rare heirloom seeds and document ...