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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each December welcomes the arrival of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog, a veritable encyclopedia of time-honored, nonhybrid, nongenetically modified and nonpatented seeds for the home gardener.