Growing TalesGrowing Tales

Even if you never buy a seed from the Seed Savers Yearbook, it's worth having just for the descriptions. Part genealogy, part geography lesson, the descriptions capture the American experience. As long as people have been coming to America, they've been bringing seeds.

There are beans "brought by my grandfather from Taiwan" and garlic "brought from Uerchnaya Mcara in the Republic of Georgia." Some trace a seed's American history: "Carried over the Rockies on the way to settle in Oregon" and "brought to Arkansas from Alabama around 1883."

One of the best: "Found in the belly of a Canada Goose shot by Mostoller Family son, just home from the Civil War and grown ever since."

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