At some point, even though it’s easy to buy seeds in stores and online, most gardeners think about collecting and saving their own seeds. Collecting and saving your own seeds does require some thought ...

Growing up in suburban New York City, our house was surrounded by woods of primarily American beech (Fagus grandifolia) and white oak (Quercus alba). And one year it occurred to me that I could ...

Generations of Indigenous peoples worldwide worked for thousands of years with wild plants to produce the foods that sustain us today. Seed is the first link in the food chain, a 10,000-year-old ...

Purchasing vegetable seeds every year can be costly and take up a lot of time as you flip through seed catalogs on the hunt for the perfect seed selection. If you want to make your garden more ...

Seed saving connects a gardener more closely to a plant’s life cycle. It’s also a way to disconnect from corporations that copyright seed varieties, often limiting plant diversity. Saved heritage ...

Why bother to harvest seeds from the flowers in your garden? Because you will save money, the seeds are fresh and it is relatively simple to do once you know how, says RHS chief horticulturalist Guy ...