Eight small, long red 'Martin's Carrot' peppers in a line on a black background

Pepper 1231: ‘Martin’s Carrot’

‘Martin’s Carrot’ pepper was preserved for many years by the Martin Family and donated to Seed Savers Exchange in 1996 by Dr. William Woys Weaver.

Stewardship Stories

The Power of Telling a Good Story

And as I found out during my time as the membership and development intern at Heritage Farm, Seed Savers Exchange is all about stories.

Yellow sunflowers tower over a wall of red-flowering runner beans.

Varieties

Quintessentially British: The Unjustifiably Shunned Runner Bean

In the United States, runner beans are undervalued as an edible crop and usually grown as ornamentals for their large, showy, often scarlet-colored flowers. American horticulturalist Fearing Burr recognized their eating qualities in his 1863 book Field and Garden Vegetables of North America, stating “its value as an esculent has not been generally appreciated.” This remains true today.

Stewardship Stories

Collecting Seed Stories: How to Record Seed Histories

Anyone can preserve history by collecting seed stories. There are many more amazing seed stories out there than we can ever collect on our own. An easy way to protect these stories is to record them.