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 ...

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Burpee developed iconic crops like iceberg lettuce and big boy tomatoes at Fordhook Farm in Bucks County. The farm has been a trial garden to test new crops and flowers for more than a century.

FLINT, MI – Before a bright green tour bus pulled into Durant-Tuuri-Mott Elementary Friday, May 10, residents had already gathered outside the school, some waving and yelling with excitement. They had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week on FYI Philly, we explore a botanical garden that's a Philadelphia first, celebrate a milestone birthday for an iconic ...

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.

America's 250th birthday is inspiring new ways to explore gardening traditions, with ideas rooted in centuries of United ...

The W. Atlee Burpee Co., affectionately known as “Burpee seeds” to millions of American gardeners, is the nation’s largest home seed and plant company and was founded in Philadelphia in 1876, at the ...