Kent and Diane Whealy founded Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) in Iowa in 1970.
Anxious to keep precious heirlooms in circulation, they heard about a legendary watermelon that had moon-like markings and star-like dots that had disappeared from US catalogues in 1920.
A local US TV station picked up the story and an old farmer who still grew it passed on a few seeds ...
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