What are heirloom seeds and how are they different from hybrids?
Heirloom seeds refer to those varieties of fruits and vegetables that have been around for decades, passed along traditionally by gathering and storing seeds. Heirloom varieties produce true, meaning that the seeds produce the same plant as the parent plant. Hybrid varieties do not produce true; rather, the seeds revert back to one of the parents or to an inferior variety. Hybrid seeds are not the same as GMO seeds, which are produced by the inexact science of gene splicing not traditional crossing or grafting.
