Seed Story: Corn Breeding
We wrote a Seed Story about Painted Mountain Corn in our September 2023 newsletter. This month, a story about seed breeding through […]
Tango Orange Cosmos
The clothing industry has one of the largest impacts on the natural world, with a similar sized global ecological footprint […]
Squash Blossoms
Our seed stories usually focus on specific varieties of vegetables and grains. This month, we bring you an unsung hero […]
Thai Giant Pepper
All peppers originate from Central and South America. People say that when Europeans began bringing seeds and plants to Eurasia […]
Desert Dent Corn
As a community of corn lovers, every year presents a challenging decision of which corn variety to grow. Due to […]
Green Luobo Radish
The Groundwork farm just planted our first biennial seed crops into the fields, including Green Luobo radish and Colorado Sweet #6 storage […]
Casey Piscura’s Tomatoes
How are great open-pollinated vegetable varieties created? Through years of careful tending, a certain amount of cross-pollination, and careful selection […]
Za Hara Eggplant
Seeds have stories. Sometimes those stories get lost. People forget. Somebody who knew where the seeds came from might hand […]
Black Futsu Squash
In the high desert, growing squash is always a gamble. Our home, Delta County, used to be one of the […]
Hot Paper Lantern Pepper
Habanero-type peppers are their own species of pepper, capsicum chinense. Most of them are grown in extreme humidity and heat […]