Seed & plant finding tool from Mother Earth News

I just learned about the Plant and Seed Finder from Mother Earth News. It’s a Google-based search tool for 150+ online plant and seed catalogs–simply type in the specific name of the plant or seed you’re looking for and you can quickly find all the different online suppliers. Very handy indeed this time of year.

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What winter offers the gardener

What does the winter season offer the gardener? Little, it may first be thought. And yet this is not the truth. First, there is during the closed months time to meditate upon our mistakes and failures (which have doubtless been many) and to seek some ways to remedy them…And then there is remembering: remembering the [...]

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Vernal equinox: new beginnings

Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading.
– Henry Thoreau, “Natural History of Massachusetts”
Hello readers and blog friends. Happy first day of spring….a welcome day for all, especially in the colder parts of the world. I took a winter break from blogging to enjoy a cheerful winter of reading “books of natural history” [...]

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Blog review: Kitchen Gardeners International

Recently I learned about Kitchen Gardeners International, a non-profit organization based in Maine that’s focused on bringing “greater levels of food self-reliance” to global communities and individuals. They do this by promoting kitchen gardening, home cooking, and sustainable local food systems. KGI’s programs include International Kitchen Garden Day, an email newsletter, and a public awareness [...]

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Garden blogs: The Providential Gardener

I recently learned about a new local website called The Providential Gardener. Any readers in RI, please check it out because it's full of great local information. It's billed as "The meeting space for the growing community that cares for the fruitful earth in Providence, RI."

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Michael Pollan on organic food at Wal-Mart

If any of you have ever read anything by Michael Pollan, you’ll appreciate his recent article in the New York Times on the organic food that’s now available at Wal-Mart. Michael is nothing if not fair–in his inimitable style, he discusses the good, the bad, & the ugly.

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What a compliment!

Thanks to Geraldine at Veggies, Yarns & Tales who today featured Earth Friendly Gardening as her Blog of the Week. Geraldine lives on the Canadian Prairies and is a vegetarian cook extraordinaire with a published cookbook and a blog featuring cooking, knitting, poetry and other ramblings, and her cat Mitzi. And she's a regular stop [...]

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The Blog of Henry David Thoreau

Curt shared a really good blog with me a few days ago: The Blog of Henry David Thoreau. The "blog entries" are really Thoreau's journal entries. Greg Perry, a poet, writer, photographer and blogger, posts Thoreau's journal entries on the day that they were written (though they were written in different years).

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Getting wild with native plants

I got a fun little gig as a "stringer"–that's journalism speak for freelance writer–at the Kent County Daily Times of West Warwick in Kent County, Rhode Island. They asked me to write garden and nature articles a few times a month. It's another way to get my name out there as a garden writer so [...]

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Weekend gardening, part 2

On Sunday, we went to Hattoys Nursery in Coventry, which is really too far to drive to, considering there are a million other nurseries that are closer. But the kind people that own Hattoy's are master gardeners, or their parents were, or something… for some reason they really like MGs and were having a special [...]

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Silly Saturday fun: compost quotes

Just a little Saturday silliness–a few quotes about compost.

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Garden blogs, part deux

It's been a busy couple of days, so I'm cheating a bit — here are a few more garden bloggers that I like.

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Garden reading: garden blogs

I've been remiss in linking to gardening blogs in my Blogroll. That's because there are so many good ones that I haven't had time to look at them all. But I finally had a chance to look over a few yesterday and I'm adding three that I like to my Blogroll.

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Cornell U. Cooperative Extension

Cornell University's Cooperative Extension (Ithaca, NY) has a great gardening section. There's so much information there that you'll feel overwhelmed! Most of the information is general, not region-specific, so there's something for just about every gardener.

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Magazine Review: People Places Plants

I made a trip to the bookstore this weekend, so it's magazine review time again. I've been wanting to get my hands on a copy of People Places Plants (PPP) for a long time, because it's written specially for Northeast gardeners.

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