Dana and I ordered a couple of packs of heirloom seeds this week from a company that only sells generations-handed-down pure seed...for use next year if we're blessed to plant a garden. As you know, hybrid fruits/veggies we buy in the store (as well as most of the plants from seed catalogs) have been genetically altered in a way that, for the most part, their seed is worthless. It can't reproduce over and over again...some won't grow again at all. Some might bear once and then no more.

I remember my first experience with hybrid seed years ago as a teenager. I ate this huge, juicy peach from the... (Continued)