Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Mansfield, Mo. What started out in 1998 as a small midwestern operation championing heirloom vegetables has fast grown into the nation’s leader in old and odd open ...

The Exchange, on Seed Savers’ website, pairs the people who save heirlooms with those who want them, all for the price of postage. By Margaret Roach I’m several hundred heirloom bean varieties ...

True heirlooms date back to before hybrid seeds were introduced ... world where climate change and other environmental issues threaten the survival of many plant species. Heirloom vegetable ...

Short term, the people farmers buy their favorite seed and chemicals from could change. Ultimately, the impact could mean faster innovation, like the companies promise, or a potentially tougher ...

This includes the launch of a National mission on high yielding seeds, focusing on research, development, and propagation of climate-resilient seeds, and the establishment of a second Gene bank to ...

Indian agriculture struggles with low crop yields, partly due to seeds that cannot withstand ... can disrupt value chains. For lasting change, such annual planning must align with political ...

The bank was established in 1988 after the realization that some traditional varieties of seeds were being lost, an occurrence that is becoming more common with climate change. It aims to conserve ...