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SEEDS SAVED become family favourites

One of the seeds that I remember most was › M›dag›scar bean which had been continually grown by › single family for over 100 years.

IMAGINE a time not so long ago when seed saving was something you did with every single plant growing in your garden. When the variety you were growing had been in your family for generations, adapting to

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