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maybe i am doing better?  with days.  just days.  how they come and how they Are.

 

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these are my most loved seed people.   they tell me which varieties do well with heat and drought which is what there is here, where i live.   i notice something very different in this catalog and it's not addressed,  so i am left to guess.  the paper, first, is less glossy,  less fancy than usual.  that,  but then too,  there are many FEWER choices.  this makes me wonder.  but i didn't see any words to say why…????  but ok.  i'll just go with it.  and SIT with it for some days before i order.

 

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this is that strip with all the Kochia.  it's GONE tonight…raked over to where i will finish burning it probably tomorrow, depending on presence or absence of WIND.  and it was quite wonderful because it's more of an expance than i'd thought.  almost 5 ft.  so, for Sure, the Native Plum could find a good place there.  

 

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there's my little tin house

 

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we need to water the apricot tree.  all of Julian's stuff is under it.  so we moved it all to "high" ground so it wouldn't be lost

 

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and i saw her,  how she is, there in the crook of the tree.  Tree Baby he calls her.  through seasons, through Great Wind,   she's just there.  Tree Baby.

 

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and i didn't take in the onions in time.  so i've left them to grow and reproduce this spring.  accidentally raked one out today in my Happiness.  it's nice.  pungent.  onion~y.  nice.  i'll eat it in the morning with refried beans.

a Very Excellent day

 

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  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Area for native plum looks very good: (grace, we along with over 1 million people cannot access our email (outlook.com) at this time so Rich will look over your notes and respond when he can.) Curious about Plants of the Southwest so ordered their catalog.

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    o!!! how interesting…the unability to respond??????????????
    Plants of the Southwest…VERY serious people. VERY.
    in Albuquerque. Very Serious people.

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  3. Jill Lee-Jones Avatar

    Hi Grace,
    Seeds of Change was purchased at some point by Mars, Inc. (think candy bars) and was downsized and moved from Santa Fe to Los Angeles…check wikipedia for more info. I assume the fewer varieties are due to their ‘strategic shift’…

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  4. Deb G Avatar

    I considered declaring this year, the year of the onion. 🙂

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  5. Mo Crow Avatar

    back in the mid 70’s the best gardener Pete Webb was the seed collector for the Melbourne Botanic Gardens (he is now in Brazil doing amazing things with Vida de Clara Luz but that’s another story) he said way back then to collect seeds because he could see a time when the rights to seeds would be owned by big companies… the good news is people all over the world are gathering & creating seed banks!

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  6. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Hey there you. I’m about to plant my feet in sand and surf. Train tome tomorrow–twenty one hours plus some to paradise. I will miss looking in. May all be well with you, with ‘tree doll’, goats, “Chinch” weather both internal and external, and may your cloths sing.

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  7. patricia Avatar

    you’ve got me thinking about spring planting now, although we’re a bit behind NM in terms of last frost etc. last summer’s garden was pretty much a wash, literally. too much rain. incessant rain. no one i know had tomatoes that escaped blight and fungus. and the same happened to beans and cucumbers. i rotate my plantings, but last year every part of the garden was hit hard by something. it has me a little confused now. wondering if fungii spores are lurking everywhere? so i’m going to grow a different type of garden this year. more kale. turnips. more beets. rutabaga. collards. fewer beans. fewer tomatoes. more gourds and winter squash. see what you’ve started? thanks!

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  8. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    native plums..i am looking at native plums..and was suddenly so happy to find that they grow in such strangely diverse places…new mexico..vermont…
    all last fall when neither my hand nor my laptop would work very well i planned and planned the way i want the earth around us to be…a strange gift in a way..because it totally reenforced what we have always tried to do..to leave the ground around us fairly untouched while we let a year go by and watch and see and learn
    well we did make trips back and forth with our car full of perennials that we could not leave..and our kids laughed at us and are still sitting on the chairs that we drag off of the back deck and use inside..and they were not thrilled with my stacked mattress couch..but i have a good perennial border started and the couch will get there…
    .., and so i planned ..a small orchard to share with breezy meadows and we had an amazing fall driving to small organic orchards ..being overwhelmed..happily with the choices there ..and the fact that for the first time ever we will have both sun and space…and an indeterminate amount of time
    because for the first time..i am not quite as content to start everything from seeds and small starts..the smallest saplings that once would have made me content..now i am suddenly reorganizing and seeing what is the largest tree i can find..and afford and be able to plant..it is a strange way to feel
    part of it is my own age ..and desire to see all the growth that i can possibly see ..and part..the main part..is the health of my husband and how much i want him to have as much as he can ..and so i plan in the middle of feelings so huge and overhanging that if i stop and let them stay too long ..i shrink too far inside of myself to breathe
    and then i come here and to the forum..and just let it all wash over me and touched by the spirits found i breathe and instead am full of the wonder of such connection..and a sense of such happiness in native plums
    my jonny’s seed catalogue sits next to me..practically open to the pages i have gone back to repeatedly…the kid’s have already sent theirs in and so i cannot piggy back on theirs and so i feel a sense of freedom…they are so very good and very realistic and i have a little more dream space..
    and the walden heights nursery and orchard..where we have literally spent hours wandering…they say…
    Seedling American plum. Variable fruit and tree characteristics. The best bet as a pollinator for hybrid american plum cultivars. Native plum is extremely cold hardy. Makes a superb impenetrable hedge especially to deter animals. Fruit is always good in the kitchen, some will be good fresh. Awesome flower display and very fragrant. and then i read from
    the plants of the southwest nursery
    The only plum native to the Southwest. Covered with white flowers in spring. Grows in mountain fields & along ditches & fences. Small tree or shrub (if allowed to sucker) to 10 ft. Good hide-out for animals. Delicious, miniature plums. Sow in fall or stratify 4 months & sow in spring.
    and i am sitting here smiling..in this room that still is full of the scents of your country ..trying to imagine the lives and spaces of native plums..what a simply great way to start my day…may yours be filled with such smiles as well xox much cynthia

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  9. jude Avatar

    seeds. yes, it’s time to think about that.

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    WooHOOO! off you go! and your glitch self healed. good
    good sign.
    SAIL AWAY……………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    HI!, Jill….
    eeeee. i don’t know what to think???? there were no
    details there. and i couldn’t quite get When Seeds of
    Change became a part of Mars? was it always? or, for
    how long?
    i don’t know how to Feel about this….
    but for SURE, i will save my seeds this year. very very
    Care Full y.
    thank you for telling me…

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    i probably use onions more than anything else but
    water. LOVE onions

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. but wow. i really don’t know what to think
    about Seeds of Change. it’s really thrown me for a loop.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    so…we have plum dreams the same….
    i will stratify the seeds and plant in pots first. but
    today i called the store in ABQ and they have the trees
    in 5 gal pots.
    like you, i am thinking, at least this. so most likely
    i’ll make a trip in and bring some home. I don’t know
    how long i have here. maybe a long time. maybe not.
    so i’ll do both.
    THANK YOU SO MUCH for your words….

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    it’s one of my most pleasureable things. dreaming them…

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    hey Jill…i looked at your blog…you haven’t posted for
    a while. but Where You Are, in the shadow of Shasta, is
    where i might end up, one of these fine days. hope
    you post more. and post about that world. i am HUNGRY
    for word from there……………….

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  17. jan b. Avatar

    According to the Seeds of Change website (FAQ’s)- “Seeds of Change was founded in 1989 …” and “In 1997, we became a member of the Mars, Incorporated family of companies…”. In their on-line catalog (pdf file), it states “Our organic heritage drives all that we do… which is why our catalog is printed on FSC Certified recyclable paper and contains the fewest number of pages possible while still providing a rich and informative experience for our customers.” and “The catalog is meant to be used in conjunction with our website,…” and “you can find even more great products online.” Not sure if typepad allows links but the website is here: http://www.seedsofchange.com/

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  18. patricia Avatar

    I googled Seeds of change and the rabbit trail took me to an site about Paul Glover and his ideas on thetake-over of the organic food industry by corporate entities. here’s the quote. if i’m reading it right, it looks like the take-over could have take place in 1998. i’m totally amazed. got my seeds from their storefront when i lived in Santa Fe.
    “Seeds of Change is now owned by M&M-Mars Candy: “Women are from Venus, Seeds are from Mars”
    “Earlier this year, Seeds of Change, an idealistic company formed in the 1980s to “preserve and spread a diversity of organic seeds through the gritty, caring hands of backyard gardeners,” was bought out by M&M-Mars, Inc, the candy company. As Seeds of Change Vice President Steve French explained to the incredulous editors at Food & Water magazine, “I don’t think there are any real differences between Seeds of Change and Mars…. whether it’s a Mars product or it’s a Seeds of Change product, the product benefits are very, very similar if we’re talking about nutrition here.”
    –Earth Island Journal, Fall 98

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  19. Jill Lee-Jones Avatar

    Hi Grace, Yea, I know I have been off the blog for a while. Just have not felt like I’ve had much to say…this is a beautiful area. So much like New Mexico as far as climate and terrain…high desert=hot + cold. When we were looking to move I really wanted to go to New Mexico, but it was too far away from my aging mother-in-law. She’s gone now, but I still dream of going back to New Mexico at some point…who knows…???? Take care!

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