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Saving Seeds & Stories with John Coykendall Amy Campbell - The Tennessee Farm Table Podcast & Broadcast

Season 8, Episode 2. 1/9/2021

Saving Seeds & Stories with John Coykendall

Seed Saving & Stories with our ole seed saving pal John Coykendall of Knoxville, TN. John tells us how he became a seed saver, some of the varieties he has saved, where to find old time heirloom seed like the ones he saves, and shares some cute stories.

Knoxville native John Coykendall, Master Gardener and seed saver of heirloom seed shares some stories with Amy.  John tells us how he became a seed saver, some of the varieties he has saved, where to find old time heirloom seed like the ones he saves, and shares some cute stories.Amy and John worked in the garden at Blackberry Farm together in 2007 where Amy learned from John the importance of these heirloom seed.  Many of the varieties that he has saved can be purchased at http://www.seedsavers.org/

John Coykendall on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/john.coykendall.3
John Coykendall documentary: https://www.lpb.org/programs/deeply-rooted-john-coykendalls-journey-to-save-our-seeds-and-stories

John Coykendall book: https://lsupress.org/books/detail/preserving-our-roots/

Fred Sauceman “Pot Luck Radio”: https://www.facebook.com/fred.sauceman

Seed Savers Exchange (John Coykendall has donated seed to Seed Savers Exchange, this is a source for numerous varieties of heirloom seed : https://www.seedsavers.org/

Blount County Seed Library Details: http://www.blountlibrary.org/1464/Seed-Library

John Coykendall signing his book.