George Ball’s 150-year-old seed company invented iceberg lettuce, the Big Boy tomato and other groundbreaking vegetables along the way to growing a $110 million business. Meet the man with the gold ...

Italian long sweet "corno" style 6 inch peppers ripen from green to red with a flavor you can't refuse. No need to start indoors, sow directly in the garden to save time and avoid transplant shock.

Burpee CEO Jamie Mattikow and Horticulturalist Kira Silvestri Discuss Company Legacy, New Seed Collections, and Tips for Growing Season NEW YORK, March 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Founded in 1876, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spring planting season has arrived, and one of the nation's most iconic companies is celebrating its 150th birthday this year.

You can blame it on the recession, if you choose, or to heightened concerns about the way our food is processed. Anyone who has seen Robert Kenner’s devastating documentary “Food, Inc.” (Magnolia ...

Historic Fordhook Farm in Doylestown will host Burpee Fest, what is being described by organizers as a “mash-up of a festival and a garden tour,’’ Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Burpee Fest: Big ...

I hadn't been back to Fordhook Farm, the ancestral home of the W. Atlee Burpee family, since the summer of 1992, when I fell in love with a zucchini called 'Roly Poly.' So I dropped by recently to ...