A Royal Vegetable Garden and more

Some of you may have seen this already, but it’s worth repeating.  The British Royal family has started a vegetable garden at Buckingham Palace. This is great news! The idea seems to be similar to what we are seeing here- to promote family gardening and growing one’s own food, if even on a limited scale.  [...]

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Visiting one of our growers!

We are currently in Sacramento,  CA to visit one of our growers! This is an exciting trip for us, as we expect to learn a lot and get some ideas for new seed offerings and direction for Underwood Gardens/Terroir Seeds.  I hope to take a bunch of good photos of the soil and our plants [...]

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The value of a garden

Well seed season is upon us! We have been busy with orders and talking to a LOT of incredibly nice and friendly people who are making things happen in the heirloom world. There has been a lot of support for us as  new owners of Underwood Gardens and the direction that we are headed. [...]

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So what is this funny name and how does it relate to Underwood Gardens?

Cindy and I decided to start our seed company in June/July of 2008. I had left my job at the dealership, and Cindy was looking to move to something else from her job as an outreach coordinator at the non-profit natural history center. We had been growing our own vegetables for about 14 years at [...]

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