Nantucket Garden Festival: Fifteen Heirloom Varieties, Their Stories and Why They Belong in Your Garden with Lee Buttala

The former director of Seed Savers Exchange and co-editor of The Seed Garden shares the stories of some of his favorite heirloom varieties and makes the case for why we should still be growing these time-honored vegetables and flowers in our gardens today. Recounting the tales of this varieties, many of which were headed for extinction before dedicated gardeners, seed savers, and farmers created a movement to rescue them, Buttala shares ideas  for creating a diverse garden that ensures the security of our food supply, while providing us with great tasting produce and beautiful plants that can inhabit our gardens for generations to come.