War Seeds
Nonfiction by Lee Doyle
Take these seeds and put them in your pockets so at least sunflowers
will grow when you all lie down here. — A Ukrainian citizen
My grandfather worked as a seed breeder and farmer at Fordhook Farm in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Sometime in the late 1930s, he crossed the Tangerine tomato with the Rutgers tomato, producing the Jubilee, a delicious orange bee…
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