The cafeteria at Pike County Central High School is typically crowded with hungry students grabbing a bite between classes. But on the first Saturday of this past April, the main event was all about ...

Rancho Gordo's heirloom dried beans turn up on some of the swellest tables in the Bay Area, from Manresa to the French Laundry. With evocative names like 'Eye of the Goat' and 'Sangre de Toro' (bull's ...

Learn how Eleanor and Scott Hucker have turned their love of heirloom wheat seeds into a unique and fascinating small business of growing and selling small batch heirloom staple grain, bean, and ...

Question: From reading your column for years, it seems like you like to grow vegetables in your garden. What we’d like to know is what are your favorite seed companies to buy seed from? I am ...

In mid-spring, the garden centers bloom with the year’s offering of new flower and vegetable plants. It’s a great time for gardeners. But it isn't here yet. We are still several months away from ...

Detail of the flower of the Agua Dulce Broad Bean. Heirloom Vegetable Gardening by William Woys Weaver is the culmination of some thirty years of first-hand knowledge of growing, tasting and cooking ...

Three freezers in Bill Best’s barn are filled with plastic zip-lock bags containing heirloom bean seeds. “We’ve probably got 700 to 800 varieties in here,” said Best, who has collected heirloom seeds ...

You wouldn't know it by looking outside, but it's time to think about starting seeds indoors. Danielle Wangsness, Linn County Master Gardener intern, provides some pointers here: The thought of ...

Left: The author's Granny Ruby Haynes Caudill, 97, was a postmistress and seamstress. She passed on the bean seed and the stories that went with them. Right: Katharine Campbell Haynes and William ...

Melissa Breyer is Treehugger’s former senior editorial director. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Audubon Magazine, and ...