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Here are the items we featured in our Summer 2012 Newsletter. We recommend that you look at our newsletters as they are very informative.
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| Fermentation and Pickling Collection |
| Since the beginning of human culture we have been nourished by fermented food. While the magic of fermentation is a great way to preserve food, even more importantly it enhances the flavor of foods, and brings out numerous health benefits to food. Eating fermented foods live is an incredibly healthy practice, directly supplying your digestive tract with living cultures essential to breaking down food and assimilating nutrients.
This is a small collection to get you started on fermenting foods. Includes six easy and satisfying veggies , including cucumbers, dill, a kraut cabbage, a kim-chee cabbage, pickling peppers and a pickling radish, to make sauerkraut, kimchee, and pickles that you can enjoy all winter. Six packets. |
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| SMY-9375
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| Mycorrhizae, Rooter's Mycorrhizae |
| A proprietary water-soluble blend of 8 mycorrhizal fungi selected for a broad spectrum of plants, media and environments. Will optimize available nutrients, reduce the need for water, and help germination and early growth. Mycorrhizae will harmonize with the plant's root system and can greatly expand the surface area of the root mass. Improves most plants' growth and vigor. Promotes environmental resistance to disease, pests, heat and drought. For soil or as a spray. One teaspoon per gallon; one pound cannister makes about 95 gallons. NOTE: Due to weight, shipping will be charged at the "mixed orders" rate rather than at the "seeds/inoculants" rate. |
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| SSH-9220
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| Shade Netting |
| NOTE: THIS IS SOLD BY THE RUNNING FOOT; IT IS 6 FEET WIDE. FOR EXAMPLE, AN ORDER OF "1" WILL GIVE YOU A 1 FOOT BY 6 FOOT PIECE. AN ORDER OF "10" WILL GIVE YOU A 10 FOOT BY 6 FOOT PIECE. YOU MAY ORDER ANY LENGTH YOU WANT.
Shade netting is useful for protecting young seedlings and also for extending the harvest period of crops like lettuce and spinach. It is suspended on a light frame over the bed to be protected and cuts down the amount of sun that a plant receives by a specific percentage. Knitted, black polypropylene shade netting that will last for several years. Comes in two percentages of shade.
Both types of shade netting are 6 ft wide
SELECT 30% OR 50% & ENTER HOW MANY FEET YOU WANT IN THE QUANTITY BOX
30% is for most uses - it shields plants from the hot sun but does not promote "leggy" growth. 30% = $2.75 per running ft
50% is useful for very delicate plants or very hot climates. 50% = $3.30 per running ft |
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| The Solar Food Dryer |
The Solar Food Dryer:
Eben V. Fodor, 2006, 144 pp.
Subtitle: "How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance,
Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator."
The first part deals with the theory and physical facts of solar
drying, while the second gives step-by-step instructions for
building the author's food dryer. It claims you can quickly and efficiently dry your garden produce all year long-with free sunshine
in most places. Also sections on preparing food to dry, recipes,
and some very handy appendices. |
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| BFO-1760
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| Preserving Summer’s Bounty |
Susan McClure, editor, 1997, 384 pp.
“A quick and easy guide to freezing, canning, preserving, and drying what you grow.” From the staff of the Rodale Food Center. Included are homemade pectin, food dryer plans, and much more, with many charts and drawings. |
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| Grasp The Nettle: Making Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Work |
| Peter Proctor, rev. ed. 2004, 192 pp.
We have been looking for years for an easily understood but practical book on biodynamic gardening. Rudolf Steiner's lectures are fascinating but a bit theoretical. Subsequent books have been hard to read or pretty esoteric in describing the preparations. We finally had to go to New Zealand to find this book. Peter Proctor has over 60 years experience as a biodynamic farmer, but goes way beyond that. He draws from the experience of biodynamic farmers all over the world. |
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| BGE-1303
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| Alan Chadwick: Performance in the Garden, A Collection |
| Stephen J Crimini ed,2007, 341 pp.
A transcription of 16 lectures, most of them are from Carmel-in-the-Valley, Virginia, in September 1979.
Alan was a great actor as well as a master horticulturist. There is a huge amount of horticultural knowledge in Charwick's lectures. You cannot just read through, or listen to this, once - you could productively re-read these many times and still be learning something new. His inimical, idiosyncratic style of speaking was a powerful part of his teaching. Alan incorporates fables and myths and cultural wit and quirky language, as well as a broad range of horticultural information and techniques in these pages.
There is much material here that is not covered by the other book on Alan Chadwick, Reverence, Obedience and the Invisible in the Garden .or the CD. |
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| Alan Chadwick: A Vision of Biodynamic Horticulture |
| Alan Chadwick, 1975,Over 7 hours of recordings,1975
Alan Chadwick was a legendary master gardener who studied at the great horticultureal centers in England and France. There is a huge amount of horticultural knowledge in Charwick’s lectures. You cannot just read through, or listen to this once, you could productively re-read these many times and still be learning something new. Note that the book and the CDs are not the same lectures, and their content differs somewhat.
The quality of these recordings is very good, especially considering the state of recording. Alan was also a legendary actor, so the recordings have all the dramatic elements he brought to his teaching. The lectures are: The Vision of Biodynamic Horticulture, Propagation, Fertilization, and Potpourri (miscellaneous subjects).
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