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i thank you God for this most amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and for the blue dream of sky and for everything
which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes
- e. e. Cummings
Links To Help You Go Green & Save The Planet
The Nature Conservancy
Greenpeace
Tree Hugger ~ A fabulous site that includes all facets of going green...
Food, Not Lawns ~ Resources
Robert Redford & Sundance presents "The Green"
Simple Shoes ~ Green Shoes to Stop Global Warming!
The Peace Garden Project
Although we all possess the seeds of great love and
compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's
wisdom
and the waters of their compassion these seeds
would never spout.
~ Philip Kapleau ~
Books About Saving Our World...
Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
Radical Simplicity: Creating an Authentic Life
The Simple Living Guide
It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living
Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth
Maitri's Favorite Garden Books...
Passalong Plants
Gardening for Love: The Market Bulletins
From Seed To Bloom: How to Grow over 500 Annuals, Perennials & Herbs
Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada
Taylor's Master Guide to Gardening
American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Garden Plants
Garden Seed Inventory: Inventory Of Seed Catalogs Listing All Non-Hybrid Vegetable Seeds, Available in the United States and
Canada
Fruit, Berry and Nut Inventory: An Inventory of Nursery Catalogs Listing All Fruit, Berry and Nut Varieties Available by Mail
Order in the United States
Through the Garden Gate
Tasha Tudor's Garden
An Island Garden
Derek Jarman's Garden
Magical Gardens: Myths, Mulch and Marigolds
The Gardener's Eye: And Other Essays
The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening
Onward and Upward In the Garden
Dirt: The Lowdown on Growing a Garden With Style
The Heirloom Flower Gardens: Rediscovering and Designing With Classic Ornamentals
Heirloom Flowers: Vintage Flowers for Modern Gardens
The Edible Heirloom Garden (Edible Garden)
Potager: Fresh Garden Cooking in the French Style
In Search of Lost Roses
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden (Modern Library Gardening)
Maitri's Favorite Catalogs & Resources
For Seeds, Plants, Bulbs & More...
J.L. Hudson, Seedsman
If you only ever have ONE seed catalog, this is
the one you will want to get. It is my most
cherished seed catalog ever and I save them all.
This is a very different kind of catalog, there is
nothing you can't find, it is like an encyclopedia
of seeds and everything the plantsman and woman
wants and needs to know. You study this catalog.
If you are a gardener you will never be the same
once you see this. They have a wonderful online
site but I also always get the paper catalog which
they will send you for free.
I want to share with you what they say on their
site about their company. I guarantee you will
will never have known anything like it, unless
you know them already!
Scope and Purpose
We are a public access seed bank - not a commercial
seed company. You will find that our presentation of
information and how you access our seedbank is a bit
different
from ordering seeds from the usual on-line
commercial enterprise.
Our purpose is the preservation of botanical diversity,
and the preservation of vanishing knowledge of the uses
of plants - called "ethnobotany" or "ethnobotanical
knowledge". To this end, we distribute rare seeds from
every continent;
native plants from around the world,
including flowers, vines, trees, cacti, culinary herbs,
heirloom vegetables,
ornamentals, hardy perennials,
medicinal plants, and tropicals. We also distribute
Gibberellic Acid-3, complete GA-3
kits, and a full
line of supplies for priming your seed with this
powerful natural germination enhancer. We also
distribute many unusual books about edible plants,
medicinal plants, American Indian, Australian, and
African ethnobotany, books on seed saving, source
lists and more.
Please don't miss this catalog/site. These people
are doing the most incredible work and they are great
to work with. They were, by the way, established in
1911!
Pine Tree Garden Seeds
This has to be my most favorite and most oft used
seed catalog. They are a small company in Maine
and you get smaller quantities of seeds, more
appropriate for the home gardener who can't use
the hundreds of seeds one often gets, at lower
prices, and what a glorious selection. Their
catalog itself is a feast of riches, and you can
just sit and read it like a novel. I adore them.
You will too! And this is their online site but
you can get the paper catalog too which I highly
recommend.
Renee's Garden
This is such a beautiful catalog and one I have
often ordered from often. I cannot recommend it
highly enough. It offers "Gourmet Vegetables,
Kitchen Herbs & Cottage Garden Flowers." This is
one of those catalogs where you can find heirloom
flowers you can't find elsewhere which is one of
my favorite things about it. Beautiful website.
Select Seeds
"Heirloom Flowers for Modern Gardens." A
wonderful catalog and another one I love
when looking for special, hard-to-find
old-fashioned cottage garden flowers...
Groco Seeds
These people sell on eBay and I have been buying from
them for years because you can get vast quantities of
seeds very inexpensively. As I plant like the "Whirling
Dervish of Seeds," this is the best deal for the best
price
and a great selection...
Seeds Of Change
"In 1989, Seeds of Change started with a simple mission:
to help preserve biodiversity and promote sustainable,
organic
agriculture. By cultivating hundreds of
open-pollinated, organically grown, heirloom and
traditional vegetable, flower
and herb seeds, we have
kept to this mission." ~ From "Seeds Of Change" catalog
Wonderful Catalogs Sent In By Readers (& Thank You!)
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Plant seeds now. Plant them everywhere. Like
Johnny Appleseed plant them wherever you go.
It's all about the Greening of the Planet,
creating beauty wherever you go, and most
importantly, leaving a world for our children
that they can live and thrive and be happy
and healthy in. Don't look over your shoulder.
It begins with you. With me. With each of us.
What are you waiting for? If not, why not?
If not now, when?
Many more links and resources coming soon!
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