Best Seeds in Town
At the turn of the nineteenth century the Shakers in America pioneered the paper seed packet as a way to sell their seeds. It worked. To this day we still buy seeds in colorful packets. The nineteenth century seed companies,…
Comstock, Ferre, & Co. Still in the Seed Business
This summer I visited the seed business Comstock, Ferre, & Co. in Wethersfield, CT, near Hartford. James Lockwood Belden started the business in 1820, and in 1845 William Comstock and Henry Ferre took it over. What impressed me was the…