Not a lot to do in the garden lately.  I’m holding out hope that the scarily dry winter will give way to a miracle March, filled with snow and rain.  In the meantime, the catalogs have arrived in force.  Along with the usual suspects – Seeds of Change, Territorial, High Mowing, Peaceful Valley, John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds, Gourmet Seed International, and Johnny’s, to name a few – the Seed Savers Exchange Yearbook (2012) arrived.  This is my first year as a member of SSE, and I’m already loving the catalog, and especially the micro-stories that accompany many of the seed descriptions.

For example…

Okra – Fife Creek Cowhorn:
Heirloom from the Fife family since about 1900 and believed to have come from a Creek Indian woman who stayed with them for a year in Jackson, Mississippi.

Each seed has a story to tell, and this is the beauty of heirlooms.