With the retail industry supporting 1 in 4 American jobs (per the NRF 2013 Annual Report), it stands to reason that the color and size codes enjoy widespread use across the country and are a vital tool for retailers and suppliers of all sizes.
heirloom noun [C] uk / ËeÉluËm / us âº a valuable object that has been given by older members of a family to younger members of the same family over many years:
The term Heirloom applied to plants was apparently first used by Kent Whealy of Seed Savers Exchange, who first used heirloom in relation to plants in a speech he gave in Tucson in 1981.he Importance of Heirloom Tomatoes. In the process we have also lost much of the ownership of foods typically grown by family gardeners and small farms, and we are loosing the genetic diversity at an accelerating and alarming rate.