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How to Save and Store Your Heirloom Garden Seed

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How to Save and Store Heirloom Garden Seed www.melissaknorris.com

How to save and store heirloom garden seed, especially bean seed is extremely easy. If you've read anything on my website, you know I'm a huge believer in heirloom gardening. Just one of the many benefits of heirloom gardening is your ability to save the seed from year to year, saving you money and making you more self-sustainable. (Check out my podcast Intro to Heirloom Gardening to find out while you'll love them as much as I do)

Our Tarheel green beans have been passed down in my family for over 100 years and I'm so excited that I've been able to pass them along to you guys in my annual spring giveaway.  And I got a little giddy when some of the winners emailed me to say they'd enjoyed them so much they wanted to know how to save the seed.

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Giveaway-Heirloom Garden Seed & copy of Pioneering Today!!

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One of the joys of gardening is being able to share with family and friends. While I can't share my produce with all of you, I can share my heirloom Tarheel green bean seed. It's been in my family for approximately a hundred years going back to my great-grandparents and beyond.

Heirloom Seed & Book Giveaway @MelissaKNorris
Heirloom Seed & Book Giveaway @MelissaKNorris

My grandparents moved from North Carolina to Washington state in 1941. They traveled with two other families on the back of flat-bed truck they converted to a camper with bunks. One of the times they brought with them were their Tarheel green bean seed.

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