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2011 Terroir Seeds Growing Season- Intro and Updates

This year, we will show you how our garden grows! Through a series of videos, you can watch how we start seeds, what equipment and techniques we use, and see the growth of our trial garden. We will share our successes as well as the challenges and failures. At this point, we are planning to [...]

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Heirloom Seeds Give Us Resiliency

There is a lot of talk, writing and thought about self-sufficiency now, mainly due to the partial economic and industrial collapse that we’ve all watched in the past year or so. The thought of being dependent on no one else is appealing, at least in the short run. This is short term thinking, however, without [...]

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New and unique heirloom seed collections available online now.

In response to our customers requests, we have just released our new and unique seed collections online at Underwood Gardens Heirloom Seed Collections. We have an initial 14 collections that are specially priced and carefully selected to make your growing experiences as easy and rewarding as possible. This makes it easy to explore a new [...]

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Home Seed Saving and Storage

Many people are attracted to heirloom seeds and gardening for the variety and flavor. Once they realize that heirlooms are open pollinated seeds that can be saved and replanted year after year, they often ask how to start saving their own seeds. This is not hard, but there are some basics to understand first. With [...]

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Heirloom Red Russian Kale Recipes

  Here are the recipes, please let us know what you think! Either post a comment here or send us an email. Restaurant-Style Zuppa Toscana Based on a popular restaurant starter soup. INGREDIENTS 1 (16 ounce) package smoked sausage 2 potatoes, cut into 1/4-inch slices 3/4 cup chopped onion 6 slices bacon 1 1/2 teaspoons [...]

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