William McKay, owner of a small company selling Italian vegetable seeds, first tried marketing his wares two winters ago to garden centers and hardware stores in his Massachusetts hometown. They took ...

IT’S a great time of year for kitchen gardeners. Good rains mean great greens, and we’ve been happily tracking muddy footprints into the house as we bring in fresh-cut large-leaf mache or Italian wild ...

Customers sometimes kid Bill McKay of Winchester, Mass., whose Seeds From Italy catalog offers the largest variety of Italian vegetable seeds in the United States. "They'll say, 'Hey you, McKay! What ...

ROME, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Chinese-owned agrochemicals giant Syngenta has appealed to an administrative court after Rome blocked its attempt to buy Italian vegetable seed producer Verisem, two sources ...

As a new season of the year approaches, novice gardeners who have leftover seeds might wonder if they should toss out their packets or hold onto them for next year. This could be especially of ...