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March 27th, 2008 edition of The Daily Sauce: Food and Wine. Visit Our Food and Wine Archive.

Meet the Heirloom Seed

We’ve received many an heirloom over the years (including Great-Grandma’s stuffed cat), but nobody has ever passed down their heirloom melon or blue poppy seeds to us. Not that we’d balk; it’s just that we never knew people did such things. Back in 1975, Diane Ott Whealy knew; her grandfather passed along the seeds of two garden plants brought from Bavaria years before. Thus began the Iowa-based Seed Savers Exchange, a not-for-profit organization of gardeners who save and share heirloom seeds. Bowood Farms, St. Louis’ urban nursery and garden center in the Central West End, is one of the few nurseries in Missouri to sell Seed Savers seeds. This Saturday, Whealy will be at Bowood talking about the myriad of spectacular heirloom varieties. She’ll also share ideas on incorporating them into your home so you can create gardens that are both beautiful and edible, using heirloom flowers, herbs and vegetables. Sure beats a stuffed cat.

Sauce pick: Meet heirloom-seed pioneer Diane Ott Whealy
Price: Free
Where to get it: Sat., March 29 – 2 to 4 p.m., Bowood Farms, 4605 Olive St., St. Louis
Info: For more information, call Bowood Farms at 314.454.6868 or visit www.bowoodfarms.com. For more information on Seed Savers Exchange, visit www.seedsavers.org.

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