Plant an Heirloom

Gorgeous, delicious heirloom plants preserve biodiversity and help counter industrial agriculture.

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By The Daily Green Staff

Heirloom vegetables sound fancy but are simply the kinds of vegetables everyone ate before the days of mass-produced produce. These are veggies that look and taste the way nature intended, and their old-fashioned names like Mortgage Lifter tomatoes (1940s) and Crosby's Egyptian beets (1860s) are fun, too.

Backyard organic gardeners are trying their hand at growing these gifts from grandmother's garden, and it's a good thing, too. Heirloom vegetables keep our food supply bio-diverse, and reduce our dependency on monoculture farming, hybridization and genetic engineering.

You'll get your just rewards by biting into tastier, hardier historic fruits and vegetables.

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