Learn how Eleanor and Scott Hucker have turned their love of heirloom wheat seeds into a unique and fascinating small business of growing and selling small batch heirloom staple grain, bean, and squash seeds from their seed store online.
In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, we’re learning about heirloom wheat seeds and much more! Learn how Eleanor and Scott Hucker have turned their love of heirloom staple seeds into a unique and fascinating small business of growing and selling small batch heirloom staple grain, bean, and squash seeds from their Michigan property.
Eleanor and Scott Hucker, Great Lakes Staple Seeds
Great Lakes Staple Seeds is a homestead seed company that prides itself on offering a diverse selection of staple crop seeds to meet your plant-based nutritional and functional goals. Each and every seed is regionally adapted, savable, all-natural, untreated, and grown with love on our southeast Michigan homestead. In addition to her seed work, Eleanor is a full-time stay-at-home mom to a rowdy (and sometimes naughty) flock of free-range poultry that includes geese, turkeys, chickens, and ducks. As a child, Scott was a champion 4-H gardener. When he’s not heading up the grains department for Great Lakes Staple Seeds, he’s the technical engineering specialist for the manufacturing of crankshafts for General Motors.
Additional Resources:
Learn more about Great Lakes Staple Seeds, and explore this seed store online, including discovering a host of resources and presentations on saving and growing seed from Eleanor and Scott, such as their Education Outreach in the Community.
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Music for this episode is “Cattails” by Kevin McLeod
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