Most vegetable seeds today are bred by seed companies to be hearty and easier to grow. They’re created by cross-breeding different varieties and selecting for specific characteristics. Heirloom seeds, ...

Natalie Aird, seed bank inventory coordinator at Seed Savers Exchange, organizes packets in a facility at the organization's farm in Decorah, Iowa. Often described as the Nobel of food and agriculture ...

Seed Savers Exchange managers are using an interactive sales data dashboard to analyze online orders by product, variety, customer and region, thanks to a summer research project conducted at Luther ...

Operating on nearly 900 acres in Decorah, the Seed Savers Exchange preserves plant varieties by saving and sharing seeds – and their stories. Since 2000, local musicians have lent their talents to ...

DECORAH, Iowa — Nothing can take away cabin fever except the coming of spring, but planning a garden can spur things along for those waiting for warmer winds. Although there may be snow on the ground, ...

Every year, I vow my garden will be better than the last and seed catalogs are one way to cultivate that dream. One of my favorites is the catalog from Seed Savers Exchange, based in Decorah. The ...

The organization sells more than 1 million seed packets each year to the public through catalog and retail sales. About 70 percent of the organization's $5 million annual budget comes from general ...

DECORAH, Iowa -- Andrea Springmeier dedicated time Jan. 5 to evaluating week-old lettuce seedlings. Springmeier, a collection technician for Seed Savers Exchange, was performing a laboratory ...

DECORAH - In the rolling hills outside Decorah sit two orchards owned by Seed Savers Exchange, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and sharing heirloom seeds and the genetic and historic diversity ...

The story begins with a handful of morning glory seeds that were carried across the Atlantic Ocean in 1884. Those seeds are a part of Diane Ott Whealy’s family legacy and they inspired the founding of ...

Visiting 45th Parallel Distillery & Seed Savers Exchange ends with an heirloom Bloody Mary Inga is invited to visit Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa to learn about saving seeds, but first she ...