Dear Mr. Gettle,
I have much enjoyed the first two editions of The Heirloom Gardener Magazine. A wonderful addition to the field of preserving our horticultural heritage.
Wesley Green, Williamsburg, VA
Garden Historian
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Dear Mr. Gettle, Your magazine gets better all the time! We love it and mention it often in our columns and on our radio program. It takes courage to launch a magazine these days and we wish you the best of success with it. We'll spread the word about your jewel.
Doc & Katy Abraham, Naples, NY
Authors, Radio & TV Hosts

This magazine is in my "Top 3" of gardening magazines, and is a must-have for anyone interested in heirloom gardening.
Dave Whitinger, Kerrville, TX
Owner www.Davesgarden.com Inc.

Wow!
I have never looked forward to receiving a publication as I do The Heirloom Gardener. This is a wonderful publication and I want to share it with my friends. Keep up the great work!
Matt Madison, West Union, OH

Dear Heirloom Gardener,
I just finished reading the Fall issue of your magazine, and I had to write and tell you how much I enjoyed it! I find your Thailand articles particularly interesting -- makes me think I might like to travel there myself one day.

I also look forward to seed-saving information as well as the Frankenfood News. Thank you for a very interesting read!
Jan Snyder, Cody, WY

Dear Jere Gettle,

I am writing to tell you how much I am enjoying my subscription to the Heirloom Gardener. I feel your magazine has the fire and sense of purpose that ---- ----, sadly, used to have. I love reading the history of heirloom seed and find the articles on fruits and vegetables from other countries fascinating.
Please renew my subscription for another year and start a gift subscription for my friend...

Jo and I volunteer with a group of Master Gardeners in a demonstration vegetable/flower garden on the grounds of the Hansen Agricultural Learning Center at Faulkner Farm in Santa Paula, CA. We plant many heirlooms - especially tomatoes. Our visitors are always intrigued by the unusual varieties we plant.

Thank you for being a strong voice in defense of heirlooms and genetic diversity and the fight against GMO's.
Sincerely,
Judy Eyler, Ventura, CA

Howdy Folks,
Thanks for the Heirloom Gardener Magazine. Tis greeeeat – the pictures are outstanding. I am going to frame the cover!!!! Very good stories. Thank you for your good work to preserve something precious. Please keep it up!!!
Carol and Peggy Herman
Blue Ridge Mountains of NC

Great Magazine!
I loved it … It was a sit-down, cover to cover; I can’t wait for the next!... Thanks! We homeschool, so I’m using your magazine in one of our classes.
Sincerely, Terri Dye

Dear Editor:
I just received the first issue of the Heirloom Gardener, it was worth the wait, the whole magazine is full of interesting thought-provoking information. Your articles on tomatoes were excellent, I learned even more from these articles to add to my previous knowledge. I also liked the article on corn.
The information on genetic engineering was very informative also. All heirloom and organic gardeners need to follow this issue closely and stay informed, and also stand against it every chance we get.
The article on pears was great, too. I hope to see one on apples sometime in the future. Your Spring Planting Festival sounds like a great time. I can’t make it this year, but maybe next season. I plan to show your magazine to other gardeners also. I want to see your magazine prosper in a big way.
Steve Ford
Casper, Wyoming

Finally a magazine for us nuts. My naibors all think farming organic is in possible; but my family has ben doing it for 150 years. And all there heirloom vegetables and frout treas we raise are to funny looking for there taist. But we keep going and love it. Thanks for all the great info and tips. I’m on my second time around cover to cover. Evion the ads are good. Keep it coming.
Linda & Pa at Lambert Farm
Narvon, Pennsylvania

Just received a copy of "The Heirloom Gardener Magazine". I really enjoyed reading it! Thank you.
Michelle Curry
Wimberley, TX

I just received my first magazine and my eyes ate the words from the pagers. As soon as I opened the magazine the first word I saw was Thailand and I had to stop everything and read. I have been fortunate to have spent a lot of time in Thailand and love the country as I do my own. I was instantly transported into the markets, the countryside and the smiles of the wonderful people there by your article. I purchased my first seeds from your catalog this year and wish now I had gotten even more of the seeds of Thailand which were offered. I hope you will continue to offer even more of these each year.
Thank you for your efforts to preserve the flavors of Thailand.
Carol Hahn
Cary, NC

Dear Editor,
I was very pleased to receive the first edition of the Heirloom Gardener. Lots of good stuff here. I would like to add some information on the introduction of the tomato to North America as outlined in Jack Larkin’s very good article, “You Say Tomato(I say love apple!)”. As far as I can discover, the tomato was first introduced to North America as a culinary plant, here in Williamsburg, Virginia in the middle of the 18th century. Dr. John de Sequeyra, who was the first attending physician at the public hospital in Williamsburg, arrives in town some time around 1745 and brings tomato seed with him. Thomas Jefferson credits him with introducing the custom of eating tomatoes to Virginia. A signed note on the back of Sequeyra’s portrait, now found in the Winterthur Museum in Delaware, reads: “Dr. Seccari…was family physician to my grandfather Phillip Ludwell Grimes. He first introduced into Williamsburg the custom of eating tomatoes, until then considered more of a flower than a vegetable.” Signed E. Randolph Braxton.” There is an interesting comment in John Hill’s Eden, or a Compleat Body of Gardening published in England in 1757 that observes “anyone who has dined with the Portuguese Jews knows the value of this plant, in reference to what Hill calls the Love Apple.” De Sequeyra was an Englishman, but he came from Portuguese Jewish ancestry. All of the 17th and 18th century images of the tomato I can find show a somewhat flattened, ribbed fruit. We grow the Costoluto Genovese in a few gardens at Colonial Williamsburg, which seems to best illustrate the type known to the colonists.

Wesley Greene
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation


PS – I would like to invite you to visit our website www.history.org

Dear Sirs,
A copy of your 2004 issue of The Heirloom Gardener came to my mailbox last week. Many thanks to whomever sent it. I'm sorry I did not know about it before. As a very long time gardener interested in the plants I grow, I find yours the magazine I have been looking for. The informative in-depth articles tell me what I want to know. There is no need to search through several reference books and encyclopedias for the info. Enclosed is $36.00 in U.S. funds for one new subscription and the year's copies I have missed. I await them eagerly.
Yours truly,
Phyllis I. Pierrepont
Manitoba, Canada

Dear Jere,
Thank you for the magazine and good information. I have been gardening for 21 years, organically. Mendocino County (California0 just passed Measure H, which bans GMO's. I believe we are the first county to do this. Monsanto spent $600,000 but lost! More and more people are realizing the truth. One by one - together - we will work to validate the good work done before us and now.
Happy spring!
Sincerely,
Ellen Decker