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Amy Goldman Fowler (born 1954) is an American billionaire heiress, gardener, author, artist, philanthropist, and advocate for seed saving and heirloom fruits and vegetables. She is one of the foremost heirloom plant conservationists in the US.
Seed Savers Exchange, or SSE, is a non-profit organization based near Decorah, Iowa, that preserves heirloom plant varieties through regeneration, distribution and seed exchange. It is one of the largest nongovernmental seedbanks in the United States. [ 4 ]
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange (SESE) is a cooperatively-owned seed company based out of Mineral, Virginia. SESE is a source for heirloom seeds and other open-pollinated (non- hybrid ) seeds with an emphasis on vegetables, flowers, and herbs that grow well in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Vivien Sansour (born 1978), is a Palestinian visual artist and founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library. [1] Her international work bridges between art, activism, botany, and conservation. Her work has been profiled by the BBC [ 2 ] and included at exhibitions and events at the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), [ 3 ] the Chicago ...
Glass Gem Corn is an American heirloom flint corn, or maize. It is a variety of what people call "Indian corn" and is considered unique due to its rainbow coloring. [1] [2] Glass Gem Corn has been called the "poster child" for the return to heirloom seeds.
Native Seeds/SEARCH, founded in 1983, is a nonprofit conservation organization located in Tucson, Arizona in the United States.. In the words of its mission statement, it seeks "to conserve, distribute and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seed, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwest and northwest Mexico."
A view of an empty chair inside of a sex worker's booth, in Antwerp, Belgium, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
SESE featured the Cherokee Purple in the 1993 seed catalog. [1] [2] [3] LeHoullier distributed Cherokee Purple seeds to several market growers and one of them, Alex Hitt, who lived in North Carolina, had an immediate success growing and selling the tomato despite its ugly appearance. The tomato was described "as looking like a leg bruise."