Featured on PBS- B Organic TV Show

By Big John Lipscomb Sometimes in life you try something if you are adventurous enough and what you learn is that once is enough. For me, TV is that because TV is hard. Cameras, lights and let’s roll is not that smooth, especially when cows are mooing and my stomach is growling and people are [...]

MYTH OF ZONES

By Big John Lipscomb We test about a dozen new heirloom vegetable seeds every year to see if they will thrive well enough to be offered in our All-In-One garden kit. We have 67 varieties currently but each year we like to rotate a few new heirlooms in and the only way to do that [...]

Make Money From Home

Big John Lipscomb, Founder John Lipscomb is Founder of Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. a company that developed the first heirloom garden kit designed to help novice gardeners grow an organic healthy and bountiful heritage garden with rare vegetable seeds, with sales in excess of 10 million dollars in five years starting with $2,000 and 4 pounds [...]

Scientists Growing Test-Tube Burger

June 28, 2011 at 7:31AM by Katie Robbins Where’s the beef? The answer to that classic question may soon be, “It’s growing in a test tube.” Dutch scientists estimate that they are about one year away from developing the world’s first “test-tube hamburger” made with ground beef grown from stem cells — and they’re looking [...]

Watch Out- That Bug!

Watch Out For That Bug! By Barbara Fix, Researcher & Writer for Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. To a defenseless vegetable plant, some garden bugs can be the thing of nightmares. It’s important to know how to spot signs of trouble in your garden before an infestation has had the chance to become a long-term problem. So [...]

Uninvited Garden Guests

Avoid Inviting Weeds to Your Garden Party By Barbara Fix, Researcher & Writer for Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. It doesn’t seem fair that the weeds that came uninvited to our gardens seem to flourish; sometimes becoming the life of the party, despite the loving care we give to our vegetable and herb gardens. To combat weeds [...]

Collecting Rain

Collecting Rain Water for Gardens By Barbara Fix Researcher & Writer for Lipscomb Enterprises Inc.   Conserving water is not a new idea. Conservation requirements have even impacted the design and mechanics of toilets for less water requirements, shower heads are now designed to waste less water, and those living in southern climates interests have [...]

Grandma’s Inspiration

Go to any new or used book store and find the garden section. It’s easy to locate, it’s the shelf that is sagging under the immense weight of the billion words written about it, none of them inspire anybody to garden. The problem with experts is that they are forced by the publisher to bring [...]

Why Worms?

Why Worms? By Barbara Fix, Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. Researcher & Writer So what’s all the fuss about worms? It seems every organic grower and every compost aficionado extols the virtues of these wiggly guys. It might be time to get to the bottom of why… To start with, worms benefit our gardens by tunneling into [...]

Importance of Compost

The Importance of Compost By Barbara Fix, Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. Researcher & Writer Have you ever wondered why the use of composting is so beneficial to an heirloom  vegetable garden? You may be surprised to discover the reasons and how easy it is to care for and feed your own compost pile. For the best [...]

City of Gold

El Dorado- City of Gold El Dorado- the name of a legendary “Lost City of Gold” that has fascinated – and so far eluded – explorers since the days of the Spanish Conquistadors. Imagined as a place, El Dorado became a kingdom, an empire, the city of this legendary golden king. In pursuit of the [...]

Top 10 Reasons

Top 10 Reasons to Grow an Organic Garden By Barbara Fix, Researcher & Writer for Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. Organic growing with heirloom seed avoids the hazards of eating GMO foods. Organic removes you from exposure to carcinogens found in pesticides and insecticides used in commercially grown vegetables. Organic vegetables are much more flavorful and they [...]

Deer VS Your Garden

Rural Combat: How to Keep Deer Out Of Your Vegetable Garden! By Barbara Fix, Researcher & Writer for Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. There are few things more beautiful than a deer gracefully moving through its habituate. On the other hand, catching them feasting on a vegetable garden that represents weeks or months of hard work might [...]

Attracting Butterflies

Attracting Butterflies to Your Garden By Barbara Fix, Researcher & Writer for Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. Bees aren’t the only insects that pollinate gardens. Butterflies are great contributors to pollination as well. But first you must attract them to your garden. Butterflies are drawn to vibrant colors such as purple, red, orange, pink, and yellow. In [...]

Seeds Changing Lives

How Gardening Can Change Your Life By Barbara Fix, Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. Researcher & Writer Many are growing concerned over the devaluing dollar and the increasing cost and scarcity of our food supply. Should you join the ranks of the seven million new gardeners, reported by The National Garden Association, you can become self-sufficient and [...]

Toxic Seeds?

TOXIC SEEDS? Big John Lipscomb Be careful when buying heirloom seeds. Not all heirloom seeds are equal and not all heirloom seed offers are offered by gardeners but rather marketing companies that purchase old seed in bulk at a discount and then often shove it into death bags made of foil and plastic and then [...]

Habitat to Attract

Create a Habitat to Attract Pollinators By Barbara Fix, Researcher & Writer for Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. There are fewer things more frustrating to a gardener than to grow seed to seedlings  and care for them and water them, while protecting them from pests, only to have the disappointment of their not having been pollinated. You [...]

Making Potting Soil

Make Your Own Potting Soil to Start You Seedlings By Barbara Fix, Researcher & Writer for Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. In the gardening world, potting soil is one of the first steps to growing healthy, happy plants. It’s available just about everywhere; hardware stores, landscape and nursery suppliers, and even the local grocers. But instead of [...]

Patented Seeds

By Barbara Fix, Researcher & Writer for Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. Every once in a while, an enlightening story is leaked about Monsanto’s patented seeds. It’s difficult not to point the finger at this huge conglomeration for two glaring reason: a top official has gone on record by stating that Monsanto’s goal is to control the [...]

Eliminate the Doctor

Eliminate the Doctor with Healthy Vegetables By Barbara Fix, Researcher & Writer for Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. There has been a lot of talk about the health benefits of growing our own organic vegetables. It makes sense that just-picked vegetables are fresher, and therefore healthier than produce that was picked days before we purchase them at [...]

Victory Garden

V is for Victory Garden By Barbara Fix, Researcher & Writer for Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. It’s time for a victory garden folks! That’s what families did both in World War 1 and World war 11. In fact, Victory Gardens were also called “War Gardens” which stemmed from an effort to relieve the burden of public [...]

Growing Winter Vegies

Grow Winter Heirloom Veggies By Barbara Fix, Researcher & Writer for Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. Many gardeners aren’t satisfied with putting away their garden gloves and trowel just because winter has come around. Luckily, there are many winter veggies that are more than happy to accommodate. If you live in zones where winter temperatures would plunge [...]

Kick Start Garden

A Green House Will Kick-Start Your Growing Season By Barbara Fix, Researcher & Writer for Lipscomb Enterprises Inc. Greenhouses will kick-start your growing season, and according to the National Horticulture Society, by 2009 two million Americans are putting this theory to the test. The burgeoning interest in greenhouses stems, in a substantial way, in response [...]

Our Top 10 Heritage Garden Secrets

As you might have guessed, after twenty years of ORGANIC HERITAGE GARDENING- we are still learning. That’s not a bad thing because we can get excited about doing better this year than last and that keeps us motivated. In all our years gardening with heirlooms, we have tried many “home-remedies” or garden secrets. Some work, [...]

Understanding Heirlooms

According to master heritage gardener William Weaver, heirlooms are open pollinated varieties that have naturally evolved over a period of several decades and have proved their usefulness and been handed down from one generation to the next.   Heirloom vegetables have a history of at least fifty years and a genealogy that can be traced [...]

About Our Trace Mineral Garden Pellets

To Order 1 Pound of Time Release Trace Mineral Garden Pellets Click HERE: Available Now for just $12.95. One pound bag of our Time Release (1-3 wks) Trace Mineral Pellets will feed a 100 square foot organic garden. Our Trace Mineral is USDA Certified to be 100% organic… Here’s a microscopic look at how our [...]

Old Fashion Gardens

by Big John Lipscomb The Antique Garden Although nearly every European is very familiar with antique gardens, most Americans are left with a smirk when the term is used. There are so many garden styles and types the first mistake a person can make, is assuming a garden is a garden. The antique garden is [...]

How Hybrid Vegetables Ruined America

Big John Lipscomb, http://www.heirloomseedkit.com The industrial revolution brought mechanization which slowly eliminated the small farm and unleashed corporate farming. With small farmers consumers had a person that cared about the quality of the food he produced and sold. Corporate farms however, are inspired by the bottom line on a monthly profit and loss statement. This [...]

Inspired to Garden by Grandma

Big John Lipscomb Go to any new or used book store and find the garden section. It’s easy to locate, it’s the shelf that is sagging under the immense weight of the billion words written about it, none of them inspire anybody to garden. The problem with experts is that they are forced by the [...]

You Will Get What You Paid For

Big John Lipscomb There are so-called seed companies out there that will sell you seed real cheap. Hybrid seeds are cheap seeds because they are used to grow most of the world’s cheap and sterile food that is processed and packaged and shelved onto grocery store shelves. At El Dorado Heirloom Seeds we find it [...]

To Buy or Not Buy Organic

by Big John Lipscomb When it comes to supply, organic heirloom vegetable seeds are the tiny minority, about 5%. Why are there so few organic seeds available? Well, it’s just easier to not jump all the bureaucratic hoops required to get the seeds certified. It’s expensive and time consuming. Therefore, very few organic farmers and [...]

Not All Seeds Are Created Equal

Less than 10% of Americans grow a vegetable garden on a regular basis. The average age of a gardener in the U.S.A. is in their mid-fifties. Most do not know anything about open pollinated heirloom varieties because they have only had access to hybrid seed varieties. However, a new and exciting trend is developing and [...]

Toxic Seeds?

Be careful when buying heirloom seeds. Not all heirloom seeds are equal and not all heirloom seed offers are offered by gardeners but rather marketing companies that purchase old seed in bulk at a discount and then often shove it into death bags made of foil and plastic and then sealed shut like the seeds [...]

True Cost Of Eating

I have been conducting some very interesting first hand research about the cost of the food we consume. I encourage you to try it yourself, but I reckon you will have similar results. As an avid gardener for twenty years, I know as most people, that I am able to save a lot of money [...]

Michele Beschen

The heirloom vegetable seed business is tough. After four years we are now in the top five rare seed companies in the world, a little behind the giants like Seed Savers Exchange and Rare Seeds. Our advantage and disadvantage is that we are a family business that operates on a cash basis, no debt, no [...]

How Gardening Is Making a Comeback

The Baby-boomer generation is responsible for a lot of great things but they haven’t been much of a gardening generation. Unfortunately they got caught up with television, the economic ladder, the stock market and suburban housing among other distractions. Generation X, the ones that haven’t dedicated their lives to skateboarding careers or playing video games [...]

Garden Kit Makes a Novice an Expert

The best gardeners are those that grew up tilling the earth or hung out with an older generation that enjoyed the challenge of gardening and didn’t mind getting their knees a little dirty in an attempt to birth life and spur good health by growing nutritious food. However, most of us are now city dwellers [...]

Why an Organic Garden?

Many of us may remember watching our parents and grandparents tending the garden; yanking weeds, checking for infestation, and possibly using colorful language under their breath as they remained at war with the deer and rabbits that happily ate swatches of their precious lettuce in exchange for their droppings. As we watched them gathering the [...]

The Importance of Compost

Have you ever wondered why the use of composting is so beneficial to an heirloom vegetable garden? You may be surprised to discover the reasons and how easy it is to care for and feed your own compost pile. For the best gardening soil, the most positive and cheapest step you can take is to [...]

Why GMO Seed Should Be Destroyed

Like most people, I adhere to nurturing over mayhem and bloodshed, but if I could I would single-handedly rip, tear, and destroy every GMO stock of corn, soybean, and sugar beet up by its roots, stomp on it for good measure, and hold a bonfire in its honor. Why? There are many reasons, actually. Let’s [...]

Why Worms?

So what’s all the fuss about worms? It seems every organic grower and every compost aficionado extols the virtues of these wiggly guys. It might be time to get to the bottom of why… To start with, worms benefit our gardens by tunneling into the earth, opening up the soil, and exposing it to the [...]

How Gardening Can Change Your Life

Many are growing concerned over the devaluing dollar and the increasing cost and scarcity of our food supply. Should you join the ranks of the seven million new gardeners, reported by The National Garden Association, you can become self-sufficient and reduce you monthly grocery bill; many times in half! But the benefit of growing your [...]

How Gardening Can Save America

Even in the face of out of control food and gas prices, we have the option to feed our family healthy food! Actually, if the state of America’s fiscal out-of-control spending spree continues, vegetable gardening with heirloom seed may be one of the few “out clauses” we have to avoid joining the 44 million Americans [...]