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I was just forwarded seeds for Grandma Browns cherry tomatoes, along with their history. It makes a great story:
In late summer of 1890, Sam and Mattie Brown set out by covered wagon from Missouri to western Oklahome. They had to stop at Poncha City, OK so Mattie could bear her first son.
By the time the finally reached the homestead the ground was so frozen they couldn't even dig a dugout; had to put the wagon box on the ground and live out of it the rest of the winter.
Of all the seeds they'd brought with them, only the tomato seeds survived. The family has been growing them ever since.
That makes it, as my friend Julia puts it, one of the ones with the wonderful certifiable type of provenance, which gives tham that real spark of life that makes them more than just a seed.
Anybody else got an heirloom story to share?
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