Hope and Practice: Niki Stevens
My path to seed saving started around the age of four. I knew that those red things (tomatoes) my mom had picked were bad news.
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Hope and Practice: Jay Tracy
While gardening in Arizona, I discovered the snake melon and carosello cucumbers as well as many other muskmelons that, for millennia, have been cultivated as delicious cucumbers.
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Hope and Practice: Kris Fox
My fascination with seed diversity started when I saw a colorful display of dry beans in one of the seed catalogs I had requested.
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Hope and Practice: Jeanine Scheffert
Jeanine Scheffert, an artist native to Decorah—and Seed Savers Exchange’s education and engagement director for nearly a decade—looks at a project (any project) like a canvas, full of opportunity and potential.
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Hope and Practice: Glenn Drowns
It seems like just yesterday when I first stumbled across a small advertisement in the back of a magazine in the fall of 1978. The ad was plain and simple: “Send $3 for a copy of the Seed Savers Exchange list of members and seeds.”
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Hope and Practice: Terrence Kerwin
I’ve been a Seed Savers Exchange member since about 1980, but I didn’t join the Exchange until three years ago, when I offered two tomato varieties from my garden in Silverton, Colorado.
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Hope and Practice: Gayle Saberniak
I’m a lifelong gardener and plant nut. I started saving seeds in the early ’90s when my favorite ‘California Giant’ petunias started disappearing from catalogs and the local store that carried the seeds closed.
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Hope and Practice: Kay Antúnez de Mayolo
If you stop by Kay Antúnez de Mayolo’s farmstand at Modoc Harvest’s Food Hub and farmer’s market, on the Great Basin’s western edge in rural northern California, she might sell you “regular” lettuces or tomatoes and let you be on your way.
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Hope & Practice: Spencer Carter
Hope and Practice: Spencer Carter, A Heart Filled With Hope. To celebrate Seed Savers Exchange’s 50th anniversary we will be featuring the work and inspiration of Exchange listers in the Hope and Practice series.
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