Learn how Eleanor and Scott Hucker have turned their love of heirloom wheat seeds into a unique and fascinating small business of growing and selling small batch heirloom staple grain, bean, and ...

From Texas Standard: Most whiskey distillers will likely say that “aging” is a crucial part of their process. Aging is when the spirit is left to sit in a barrel, sometimes for years. The older the ...

Last month, a scientist harvested about 145 pounds of Purple Straw seed, which was grown from less than half a pound. Purple Straw is the only heirloom wheat to have been cultivated continually in the ...

Nobody quite knows when Purple Straw wheat was first created; researchers from Clemson University have ascertained from historical records that it was certainly well-known at least in the 1700s, ...

No Native American tribe has ever received an invitation to store its traditional heirloom seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The seed vault, commonly known as the “doomsday vault,” stores ...

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