Posts Tagged ‘heirloom vegetables’

6/28 How Does Your Garden Grow?

First Day in Their New Home In April I told you about the Heirloom Seed Trial that we are participating in and I wanted to share an update. Early in the season we gave our tomato seeds to our friend Amy, the awesomely organic farmer, to germinate. We knew that Amy would nurture our seeds […]

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4/28 Heirloom Seed Trial

About a month ago I found  a local program called the Heirloom Seed Trial. It was created by the Slow Food Huron Valley Group “to promote seed saving and genetic diversity in foods adapted to our region.” The group signed up participants and gave away 30 different varieties of heirloom seeds from the Great Lakes […]

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6/24 An Edible Legacy

I have been waiting to post the heirloom blog because I wanted to post it with photos.  Big, bold juicy and colorful photos of oddly shaped and brilliantly colored tomatoes.  I have been to more stores in the past week searching for heirlooms than in my entire lifetime,  to no avail. You would think I […]

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