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Monticello’s 1,000-foot-long garden terrace served as both a source of food and an experimental laboratory.
museums

At Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Garden Is Still Growing

Restoring the grounds and its rare, heirloom crops recreated what was effectively the country's first seed bank.
Eric J. Wallace April 21, 2020
A volunteer scuba diver gathers seeds from the seabed in Porthdinllaen, Wales.
oceans

The Fight to Resurrect the U.K.'s Underwater Meadows of Seagrass

Seagrass captures carbon and creates marine habitat—so scientists are bringing it back.
Damian Carrington March 18, 2020
The kangaroo grass, <em>Themeda triandra</em>, looks delicate.
genetics

The Unexpected Elegance of Apocalyptic Seed Vaults, In Photos

The images, by artist and professor Dornith Doherty, are ethereal and oddly comforting.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 11, 2020
A wiliwili flower in full bloom.
insects

Can a War of the Wasps Save Hawai‘i’s Wiliwili Trees?

It's a classic good wasp/bad wasp situation.
Sabrina Imbler January 15, 2020
Chahuaytire, Peru

Parque de la Papa

A highland eco-park celebrates more than a thousand varieties of tuber.
A black-fronted tamarin.
forests

Two Tiny Monkeys Are Critical to Restoring the Amazon, With Their Poop

These tamarins have an affinity for disturbed rain forest.
Isaac Schultz July 29, 2019
Gastro Obscura

Beaver Dam Pepper

A pepper so good, Hungarian immigrants carried it with them when they came to Wisconsin.
Behold the macadamia: delicious, fatty, and frequently cloned!
forests

70 Percent of the World’s Macadamia Nuts Came From One Tree in Australia

Call it the Genghis Khan of macadamias.
Sabrina Imbler June 3, 2019
El Potrero Trading Post sells chimayó chile powder.
farms

The Prized Pepper That Comes From a Single New Mexican Town

But can it be grown anywhere else?
Tom Verde March 8, 2019
Gastro Obscura

Anis de Flavigny

Once made by monks, this candy spends 15 days rolling in sugar syrup to get its pearly-white shell.
Gastro Obscura

Goma Dofu

This tofu alternative replaces soybeans with sesame and kudzu.
The germplasm reserve at the Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank, one of many local facilities the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute works with.
science

This Seed Bank Preserves Biodiversity by Opening Its Doors to Farmers

The Ethiopian institution pioneered a new model.
Eric J. Wallace October 3, 2018
An agouti, perhaps trying to remember where it last placed its Brazil nuts.
trees

Brazil Nuts Are Brought to You by Rodents

The snack wouldn’t exist without the help of one furry critter and its unusually sharp teeth.
Abbey Perreault September 14, 2018
Fried emping ready to nosh.
Gastro Obscura

Emping

These beloved Indonesian chips are actually flattened, fried seeds.
Gastro Obscura

Black Sesame Sweet Soup

This thick, jet-black soup is an amazingly fragrant and nutty Chinese dessert.
Gastro Obscura

Benne Wafers

A crispy cookie from South Carolina, first introduced during the slave trade.
Gastro Obscura

Pinhão

As Brazil's forests of Araucaria angustifolia dwindle, so do the harvests of their delicious seeds.
The coastal wattle and its seeds.
Gastro Obscura

Wattleseed

This chocolate-flavored superfood falls from the Australian Acacia bush.