11.   Seeds of Change is one of a growing number of organizations devoted to heirloom varieties.

12.   The area has always been known for apples, and it now grows dozens of heirloom varieties.

13.   The catalog is full of heirloom varieties.

14.   The fingerlings or heirloom varieties can be baked, boiled or steamed in their skins.

15.   The inventory keeps track of the gains and losses of those precious heirloom varieties, and many are just teetering on the edge.

16.   There are thousands of heirloom tomato varieties, so you can experiment in your garden indefinitely until you find your favorites.

17.   Verrill Farm of Concord, Mass. is growing more than three dozen heirloom tomato varieties to sell at the farmstand this summer.

18.   We could find common ground in an interest in heirloom potato varieties or the vicissitudes of puppy training.

19.   Wurth, Brennan and many other chefs favor the cheese pumpkin, an heirloom variety that has been resurrected in restaurant kitchens over the past few years.

20.   With two other chefs, I grow several heirloom varieties in a garden in Amagansett, N.Y.