Started 1997 when then 17-year-old Jere Gettle printed his first catalog of heirloom seeds, the catalog offers over 2000 varieties of heirloom vegetables, flowers and herbs from all over the world.

Overall, vegetables make up roughly 60% of Burpee’s seed orders every year, followed by flowers (25%) and herbs (13%). The most popular herbs are basil, cilantro, parsley, chives and lavender.

Each December welcomes the arrival of the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog, a veritable encyclopedia of time-honored, nonhybrid, nongenetically modified and nonpatented seeds for the home ...

Pulling open a drawer from an old-fashioned, wooden card catalog, visitors to the Austin Public Library’s Central Library won’t find small cards listing titles of books. Instead, they can pick ...

Area libraries, including those in Homewood, Park Forest and Blue Island, are repurposing old card catalog cabinets to house flower and vegetable seeds, encouraging people to donate their leftovers… ...

Everyone on the team of about 18 full- and part-time staff members knows what it feels like to contribute to the effort that sent nearly 30,000 seed packets to more than 200 farms and 4,500 ...

Here’s how to make sure those impulse catalog purchases result in happy surprises — not buyer’s remorse. By Margaret Roach Not to put a damper on your seed-catalog bingeing — it marks the ...