In this webinar, Ashlea Viola (Hope Seeds) reviews the taxonomy and biology of tomatoes, peppers (solanaceae), beans (fabaceae), and "bonus" crop, lettuce (asteraceae). She addresses considerations such as isolation distance, minimum population, seed longevity, seed processing/cleaning, and more.This webinar, facilitated by Steph Hughes, was hosted jointly by ACORN and The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security, in 2016, to support seed library collections in Atlantic Canada.