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Johnny's in the News

Recent newspaper and magazine articles about us

• February 10, 2012: February brings first hint of spring. Read article about Johnny's Pistou basil and Costata Romanesco zucchini in Victoria (BC) Colonist newspaper.


• December 2011/January 2012: Best Vegetable Seed Companies. Read Mother Earth News article that lists Johnny's as the best vegetable seed company for 2011.


• March 23, 2011: "Heirloom Seeds or Flinty Hybrids?" Read New York Times story by Michael Tortorello.


• Jan. 9, 2011: "Vision of what might be" Read Worcester (Mass.) Telegram story by Paul Rogers on Johnny's catalog.


• Jan. 6, 2011: "In the garden: Use winter months to plan an herb garden". Read story in the Norwich (CT) Bulletin


• Oct. 26, 2010: "Johnny's expanding to Fairfield". Read story in Morning Sentinel


• July 28, 2010: The Seeds for Surviving a Scorching Summer Read story by Anne Raver, who writes the "In the Garden" column for The New York Times.


• June 1, 2010: Winslow students learn gardening skills. Read story in the Morning Sentinel (Waterville, Maine) newspaper.


• May 18, 2010: When Planting, Timing is Everything. Read story in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.


• April 1, 2010: Growing Your Own Horseradish! Read New York Times story.


• March 26, 2010: Johnny's Selected Seeds named Business of the Year! Read story in the Morning Sentinel (Waterville, Maine) newspaper.


• Feb. 28, 2010: Johnny's Broadfork, Hatfield Transplanter, and Right-angle trowel reviewed by Chicago Tribune gardening columnist.


• Dec. 28, 2009: An article from the Ventura County (Calif.) Star about our 2010 catalog: Yardsmart: Follow the seeder to Johnny's


• Dec. 3, 2009: The Washington Post: Gardening Success is in the Air.

News from Johnny's

Donations

Johnny's Selected Seeds donated $40,000 to the Maine Farmland Trust in May, 2009. The money was split between two of Maine Farmland Trust's buy/sell/protect projects.

• River Road Farm (now named Stonecipher Farm) in Bowdoinham: The Maine Farmland Trust bought and preserved 100 acres. About 60 acres (including all the farmland) was resold to a young couple (Ian and Tabitha Jerolmack), who are raising vegetables there. MFT raised $100,000 to cover the difference between the property's purchase price and what would be recouped from the sale price. $20,000 came from Johnny’s.
  Learn more about Stonecipher Farm.
  Article on Stonecipher Farm from the Brunswick Times Record.
• Charleston dairy farm: MFT bought a 580-acre farm (with 220 tillable acres) in Charleston, which will be leased to a local dairy farmer. The farmer, who recently lost access to other leased land, will use the land for crops and pasture. This property is critical to the farmer’s operation. The farmer will likely buy the land from MFT (as preserved land) in a few years. When all is said and done, MFT will recoup what it paid for this farm, but will accrue costs in the intervening period. Johnny’s remaining $20,000 will cover a portion of those costs.
• Johnny’s gift made the project possible.
  Watch TV news show about Johnny's $40,000 donation.

TV/Radio

• Paul Gallione of Johnny's Research Department, discusses the upcoming growing season on the Northern Gardening radio shot broadcast by WTIP FM 90.7 in Minnesota. Listen to a recording of the show.


• Martha Stewart invited us to appear on her show to talk about the benefits and techniques of seed-starting and some of the tools we sell to help gardeners get an early start.

Watch seed-starting episode.

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