This is pioneering today with Uppercadget's own Melissa K. Norris, inspiring your faith and your pioneer roots here in the beautiful North Cascade Mountains on KSVU 90.1 Community Radio.

Hi, this is Melissa Norris with Pioneering Today. And on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the introduction to

heirloom seeds. So I'm really excited to talk to you about heirloom seeds. I,

heirloom seeds have such a special place in my heart. So airloom seeds, if you missed some of our previous episodes,

are seeds that have been handed down from generation to generation.

They haven't been touched by science.

They're not hybrid seeds.

They're definitely not GMO seeds.

And many times they're handed down from family to family and that's the case and my family

my grandparents moved out to Washington state from the mountains of North Carolina in the early

1940s my dad was just a little boy. And they migrated out here. They came with two other

families on the back of a flatbed truck that they had converted into a camper with with bunks

on it for all the families. And so you can imagine that they didn't get to bring a whole lot with them.

If you have that many families moving across country in one vehicle back in the 1940s.

But one of the things that they did bring them was their garden seed.

And specifically was their Tar Hill green bean seed and so when I grew up we always had a

garden every year and I had never had store-bought green beans my mom home-canned a lot of our

vegetables not all of them but all of our green beans were home canned and they

were the Tar Hill green beans. And so, you know, every spring we would go and tell up the garden

and we would plant them and then, you know, we'd pick them and I would help her string them and snap

them and help her can them. And then in the fall, my dad would go out and after the beans were

dried some on the vine and he would shell the seeds out from him and then he would put him up and save him for next year and so i at the time i didn't know that that's that was an heirloom seed you know that we were seed saving it was just well what we did and so

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