By: Gwen Miner, Supervisor of Domestic Arts
Last week I had a mission, a mission to locate some new images for our 4-H Heirloom Seed Project Exhibition Catalog. The old catalog was tired and in need of some revamping. Revamping means new images and new varieties. New varieties mean searching the seed catalogs; new images mean searching books and our special collections archives in the New York State Historical Association’s Library.
Over I went with flash drive in hand, ready to scan some fresh new images. Here is what I found:
A seed catalog from Fly Creek, which is 5 miles from here.
And the most fun find: a garden of vegetable people.
The vegetable people are trade cards that advertised seed and manures for the garden.
