Heritage Farm stop featured on Iowa Barn Foundation’s free All-State Barn Tour, September 19–20 DECORAH, Iowa — Seed Savers Exchange will open the hayloft of its iconic barn at Heritage…
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Seed Savers Exchange Co-Founder Diane Ott Whealy Receives National Sustainability Honor GardenComm Green Medal recognizes Whealy’s five decades of leadership in heirloom seed preservation DECORAH, Iowa — Diane Ott Whealy,…
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Meet the Winners of the 2026 Tomato Tasting Drum roll, please! The votes are in, and our tomato tasters have spoken. At the 2026 Tomato Tasting at Seed Savers Exchange’s…
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Episode 3: What Shapes What We Eat? with Marion Nestle Before we decide what to eat, countless other decisions have already shaped the choices available to us. In this episode…
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Sowing Connections with Seed Savers Exchange Episode 1: Seeds as Living History with Michael Twitty Whether large or small, seeds represent so much more than the food they produce. This…
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At Seed Savers Exchange’s 50th Anniversary Celebration and Conference this past August, guests of all ages were invited to step into the hayloft of the barn and take part in one of our most meaningful activities: the 50th Anniversary Scrapbook.
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In the first third of the 20th century, the agricultural valleys of California were full of sweet peas grown for seed.
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The 2025 Seed Savers Exchange Catalog proudly offers more than 600 unique, open-pollinated varieties, but its cover showcases only two—the delightfully delicious ‘German Pink’ tomato and the mighty yet majestic ‘Grandpa Ott’s’ morning glory (with the historic barn at Heritage Farm providing the backdrop).
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As an orchard intern, it was my responsibility to learn about the heritage apples grown here and research information about these historical varieties.
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In 1937, Nestor and Amber Keene acquired a very special Bibb lettuce from Nestor’s Aunt Mae Smith of Millheim, Pennsylvania, who had, in turn, received it from “local folks named Zimmerman who had grown it for decades in Brush Valley.”
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