Stewardship Stories: Bill Minkey
Over 26 years, Bill Minkey has donated nearly 500 varieties of tomatoes, beans, lettuce, and peas to the Seed Savers Exchange seed bank collection, and in 2017, Bill listed 1,011 varieties in the Exchange.
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Stewardship Stories: Garden Favorites
As these intrepid visionaries demonstrate, seeds are all about community. Like-minded gardeners and seed savers build this community on the Exchange, a network for sharing and swapping seeds.
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Stewardship Stories: Mike Dunton
Some of Mike Dunton’s earliest childhood memories are of being out in the garden with his mother or grandparents.
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Stewardship Stories: Steve Sando
In the late 1990s, Steve found Seed Savers Exchange, and the tomatoes he craved, but he also discovered what ultimately became the passion of a lifetime: heirloom beans.
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Gardening & Seed Saving Terms
Use this list of terms to expand your knowledge and understanding of seed saving and gardening. The following definitions are drawn from The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving, edited by Lee Buttala and Shanyn Siegel and published by Seed Savers Exchange.
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Stewardship Stories: Glenn Drowns
Glenn Drowns’ passion for gardening started when he was two and a half years old. “I used to crawl through the fence to our neighbors’ to escape from my mom, and help [Evelyn, the neighbor] plant her garden,” recalls Glenn, fondly.
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Stewardship Stories: Bill McDorman
Bill McDorman started High Altitude Garden Seeds (which later became Seeds Trust) in 1984 while living in a small mountain town in Idaho. He hoped to offer varieties best suited to the cold, short-growing season of the area.
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Stewardship Stories: Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum
Landis Valley’s Heirloom Seed Project has over 50 volunteers who help to maintain their collection of historic Pennsylvania Dutch seeds. This includes several that they first found in the Seed Savers Exchange Yearbooks. Featured photo courtesy of Landis Valley.
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Stewardship Stories: Alan “Mushroom” & Linda Kapuler
Together, Alan and Linda have donated almost 140 varieties of heirloom seeds to Seed Savers Exchange.
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Stewardship Stories: Tom Wagner
Before Tom Wagner ever started breeding the now-popular ‘Green Zebra’ tomato in 1958, he learned the value of saving seeds by shelling beans around the farm table with his extended family.
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