Holiday Gift Ideas-heirloom - untreated - sustainable - vegetable seeds

This is a perfect gift for a gardening friend or someone who you'd like to inspire. We'll send a gift certificate with your gift message on the card, along with a copy of our catalog. If you'd like an amount not listed here, call us at 707-459-6410.

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BEA-0250

2010 Garden Calendar

2009 Garden Calendar
Ecology Action staff, 2009
Our Ecology Action garden staff has put together this wall calendar with beautiful illustrations from our research garden and "things to do" for each month, according to the Grow Biointensive method. Planting dates are set by the seasons here in Willits, California, but can be adapted to your own area by adjusting for first and last frost dates.

$15.00

SGA-9160

Garden Scissors

Small stainless steel scissors, with comfortable bright red flexible plastic handles. Useful in the garden for harvesting, light pruning, cutting flowers and twine, and useful in the kitchen for processing. They fit easily in a pocket, and the red handles make them easy to spot if you set them down while working. A small tool that makes a big difference! Dubbed "Unlimited Scissors" by Joyce Chen, the manufacturer, and with good reason. 7 ½" overall.

$19.25

BGE-1300

The Encyclopedia of Country Living

Carla Emery, Updated, 9th edition, 2003, 858 pp.
We first met Carla Emery over twenty years ago, when she had just finished the first edition of this classic book. Subtitled “An Old Fashioned Recipe Book,” but full of much more than just food recipes, this is a basic handbook of self-sufficient living. Recipes and instructions for just about anything you might want to do on a homestead, and not just for country folks. Anyone who wants to do more for themselves can enjoy this book, and Carla’s neighborly style of writing makes you want to get on with it!

$29.95

SWA-9170

Watering Fan

It has become impossible to find metal watering fans like the ones we have used at the garden for years. This is the closest we can find and with a better spray pattern than the one we were selling last year. Has a turn-off lever, encased in an insulating material to protect your hand. Small holes make a gentle spray; attaches to any hose.

$13.95

LSU-6770

Sustainable Garden Starter Kit

The Sustainable Vegetable Garden book with All three Basic Seed Collections, to match the basic garden plan in the book. - 15 seed packets.

$38.75

LWO-6810

Women’s Herb Collection

A variety of herbs used by women through the ages to maintain well-being and health. Contains one pkt each of: Motherwort, Red Clover, Black Cohosh, Sage, Evening Primrose, Lovage, Vervain. 7 pkts.

$14.00

LDR-6670

Water Saver Collection

Varieties chosen for tolerance to drought and heat; these will need water to get established. Includes Amaranth, Moth Bean, Garbanzo Bean, Black Aztec Corn, Purslane, Mustard Greens, New Zealand Spinach, Pearson Tomato, Chard, and Sugar Baby Watermelon. 10 pkts.

$19.50

SSE-9140

Serrated-Blade Sickle

A Japanese stamped grass sickle with a sharp serrated edge. For cutting small amounts of grain, grass, or compost crops, or clearing soft growth. Recommended by one of our customers who is a market gardener.

$8.95

SHA-9270

Haws Watering Can

The famous, perfectly-balanced long-reach cans from England, with a long spout. Upward-facing brass rose gives a fine, gentle rain for flats, beds, or seedlings. Green plastic or galvanized metal - holds about 1.2 gallons.

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BEA-1035

Dig It! Video DVD

John Jeavons Double-Digging Video
John Jeavons, 1997 DVD, 30 min pp.
This video shows how to prepare your soil better and much more easily by following the techniques John Jeavons has developed while double digging all over the world for the last quarter of a century. Learn directly from the master. These techniques will improve your garden, and its soil, wherever you live. Have fun digging! DVD format. Also available in Spanish.

$19.95

SSO-9290

Soil Sieve

one 11.75" sieve body with 3 screens

A stainless steel sieve body 11.75" in diameter, with 3 interchangeable galvanized metal screens of 3,5,and 10 mesh per inch. For sifting soil or compost for starting seeds, or for separating large types of seeds from chaff.

$15.95

SOD-9335

Odor-Free Compost Bucket

We received a sample one a few years ago and scoffed at it; but after using it we have decided that it’s a really handy design. There is a place in the lid for a charcoal filter, so the ingredients inside do get air, but the odor doesn’t come out into the kitchen. It has a carrying handle for taking it out to the compost pile, and it’s easy to clean when you bring it back in. It fits easily in a cupboard under the sink. It is dark green heavy plastic, 12 ½ inches tall, 8" X 6 ½ " at the top. It holds 2 ½ gallons of kitchen scraps…enough to go for a while between trips to the garden. The charcoal filter is reported to last 3-4 months, but we have had one last much longer than that. Comes with one filter.

$21.50

SEC-9260

Eco Spout

This is a clever gizmo that fits on top of nearly any plastic jug to enable you to attach either the sprinkler type head or the pour spout. Mix up some liquid seaweed in an old milk jug, for example, and then attach the watering head to sprinkle it on your plants. Or pour water into your radiator, or whatever.

$2.95

SBU-9190

The Burden Cloth

This is a very sturdy canvas cloth that has reinforced edges and handles on the four corners. Spread the cloth on the ground next to the bed where you are working, throw weeds, prunings, whole plants, etc. onto the cloth, and walk away with it when you are done, leaving sidewalk, lawn, or path free of mud and mess. It really makes composting easy and fast when there is not so much picking things up, just dragging away. They have been in daily use in our research garden since we discovered them--especially on terrain too steep for a wheelbarrow or cart. Lay a board on the edge and rake leaves straight onto it. The cloth can also be used for carrying firewood, and even adapted to make a nice strong baby carrier.

$40.00

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