In a world trending toward one-click-and-it's-on-the-way commerce, it's reaffirming to run up on someone who grows and sells watermelon plants from seeds found in a deceased uncle's freezer 20 years ago. Or white eggplant from seeds stashed in a baby food jar in the house of a grandmother named Zada. Or two varieties of cowhorn peppers (cayenne peppers resembling a cow's horn) obtained from a Miss Louise Freeman of Millport who got the seeds from her mother.
And, it is further reaffirming to kn
Birney Imes III is the immediate past publisher of The Dispatch.
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