Grace Wertanen, the "seedling intern" at Growing Hope Urban Farm in Ypsilanti, Mich. carries a tray of soil blocked plants Neda Ulaby/NPR hide caption
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A caprese salad prepared with Norfolk's Purple Tomato. The tomato was created using genes from a snapdragon. Norfolk Plant Sciences hide caption
The Purple Tomato, a genetically modified crop created by Norfolk Plant Sciences, is available to home gardeners to start from seed. Raven Villar/Boise State Public Radio hide caption
Gardeners can now grow a genetically modified purple tomato made with snapdragon DNA
From 'Milkshake' to veggies, Kelis and Ron Finley share their farm journeys
Abra Lee is a horticulturalist and studies U.S. gardening history. She fondly remembers her own relatives' gardens as holding a special place in horticultural history. Carlos Alejandro/Abra Lee hide caption
Tracing A Fraught And Amazing History Of American Horticulture
Ietef "DJ Cavem Moetavation" Vita plants seeds with daughter Libya LeaDonvita in the garden at their home outside Denver. Vita is among a growing list of Black gardening enthusiasts-turned-entrepreneurs across the country who've launched seed businesses during the pandemic-inspired gardening boom. Rachel Woolf for KHN hide caption
Seed companies are seeing historic levels of demand this year from home gardeners and commercial farmers, and they're having a hard time keeping up. Fedco Seeds hide caption
Suppliers Field Growing Demand For Seeds From Pandemic Gardeners
Homeowners Tom Carroll and Hermine Ricketts held a ceremonial planting of vegetables in their garden on Monday. The Village of Miami Shores had prohibited front-yard gardens, but the Florida Legislature passed a law that assures such gardens' legality. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption
Syrian gardeners at the Domiz refugee camp in northern Iraq share the harvest. Kastro Yosef/The Lemon Tree Trust hide caption
Seed preservationist John Coykendall, also a trained artist, keeps detailed journals of all of his seed expeditions, something he calls "memory banking." Debbie Elliott/NPR hide caption
The Big Stories Behind Small Seeds: This Man Wants To Save Them All
Seedsheets are made of weed-blocking fabric, a thick layer of soil and dissolvable pods full of organic seeds. Courtesy of Seedsheet hide caption
The elaborate Alnwick Garden in northeast England includes a "Poison Garden" that showcases plants with killer properties. Visitors are invited to look but not touch or even smell. Joanne Silberner for NPR hide caption
Minara Begum (left) and her sister, Rajna Begum, served coconut Mishti (sweets) at the first Bandhu Gardens pop-up at Rose's Fine Food last July. Courtesy of Andrew Miller hide caption
Nychele Williams, 15, picks basil from the garden at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C. Lydia Thompson/NPR hide caption
Santiago Arredondo with his wife, Aimee, at StoryCorps. StoryCorps hide caption
Grandpa The Gardener Helped Nurture His Seedling Grandson
Sprouting broccoli will serve up florets in about 50 days. Not bad for this member of the brassica family. Laura Whitehead/Flickr hide caption
Cherry Belle radishes grow superfast. John Trainor/Flickr hide caption
Graze the Roof is a community-produced garden that grows vegetables on the rooftop of a church in San Francisco. Sergio Ruiz/Flickr hide caption
Prisoners build an organic vegetable garden in the prison yard of the medium security unit at San Quentin State Prison in December. Kirk Crippens/Insight Garden Program hide caption
Hermine Ricketts says she gardens for the food and for the peace it brings her. Greg Allen/NPR hide caption