Seed sales growing as garden boom hits B.C.
April 22, 2009 By Lisa Johnson CBC News Several B.C. seed and plant retailers say business is blooming this year, and the recession, rising food prices and star power may be feeding British...
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Growing Grains at City Farmer
This year, Maria experimented to see if she could grow wheat, flax and quinoa at our Vancouver Compost Garden, and she succeeded. The wheat and flax were purchased from a local seed company, Salt...
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Smithsonian Institution has huge collection of historic seed catalogs
By Marca L. Woodhams, Smithsonian Institution Libraries The Smithsonian Institution Libraries have a unique trade catalog collection that includes about 10,000 seed and nursery catalogs dating from...
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Artan Gardens in the middle of downtown North Bay, Ontario
A trailer showing Zell and Krist growing, revitalizing, and transforming the Artan Garden into a Creative Cultural Centre in North Bay Ontario. Artan Garden Mr. and Mrs. Artan came to North Bay with...
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Ready For Planting – Ferry’s Seeds
Larger image here. WWI Home Garden Seed Advertising by Haskell Coffin 1919 Haskell Coffin (1878 – 1941) A versatile illustrator, gracing covers for several magazines, Redbook and The American being two...
View ArticleControversial? Crisis Gardens – Survival Seed Bank
This ad was aired on controversial TV program, the Glen Beck show. Survival Seed Bank Excerpt from Survival Seed Bank website. You don’t have to be an Old Testament prophet to see what’s going on all...
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Triscuit crackers joins Home Farming Movement
4 million cracker packages with seeds inside and a pledge to build 50 community-based home farms Home Farming is about growing your own herbs and vegetables, no matter where you live. To help people...
View ArticleStephen Colbert mocks crisis garden advertisement
Watch Crisis Garden Mock in Entertainment | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com The Huffington Post excerpt: March 10, 2010 Said Colbert: “Glenn’s advertisers know nothing moves product like the...
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One city is starting a movement to create 15,000 backyard (and balcony) farmers
The Ritchay family’s garden. 15Thousand Farmers – Planting A Seed To Feed Ourselves – Louisville, Ky by Greg & Michelle Vittitow, Impact Dash March 11th, 2010 The Vision: 15Thousand Farmers helps...
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The Evangelists for Heirloom Vegetables
Sasha, Emilee and Jere Gettle at the recently revived Comstock, Ferre & Company seed business in Wethersfield, Conn. Photo by David La Spina for The New York Times. “Let’s rock the food supply in...
View ArticlePublic library seedbank encourages urban farming
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The Dinner Garden has provided seeds to 48,000 families since 2009
For $61 in seeds, we can grow about $1.3 million worth of vegetables The Dinner Garden provides seeds, gardening supplies, and gardening advice free of charge to all people in the United States of...
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2011: The Year of the Vegetable says Chairman of Burpee Seeds
Doylestown PA’s W. Atlee Burpee was just eighteen, when he started his own mail order business in 1872. By 1888, he had transformed the family home “Fordhook Farms” into his own experimental...
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Chicago program has given away more than one million seeds since 2008
From Seed to table with One Seed Chicago – 2011 seeds are Radish, Eggplant and Swiss Chard Childhood obesity is a serious problem facing our country, and it is compounded by the fact that many of our...
View ArticleMuseum starting seed library for urban farmers
One of four episodes about the Hull-House Urban Farm from 2010. Hull-House Museum Opens Seed Library with Federal Grant UIC News Release University of Illinois at Chicago Office of Public Affairs May...
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Burpee Home Gardens “I Can Grow” Youth Garden Award Gives a BOOST to School,...
Garden Grant Application Available Online, Due Dec. 23, 2011 Press Release Oct. 25, 2011 Burpee Home Gardens(R) is now accepting applications for the 2012 “I Can Grow” Youth Garden Award. In its third...
View Article‘Our Seeds’– one hour documentary released on the Net
Following this English with Portuguese subtitled edition, online versions in French, Chinese and Japanese will be made available. Now online. Full version of “Our Seeds” shot in eleven countries. By...
View ArticleA Time Capsule Full of Heirloom Seeds
Urban Farm: Build a Garden, Sustain it for Life By Jarrod Tishhouse Kickstarter Project Nov 1, 2012 Custom build your own heirloom garden – sealed and encapsulated, so you can plant when you’re ready!...
View ArticlePortrait of Dan Jason, a pioneer in seed farming in British Columbia
‘The Gift’ by Jean-Marc Abela The Gift is a portrait of Dan Jason, a pioneer in seed farming who has gone against the grain of industrial agriculture. He shares with us an alternate vision of the...
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Started in 1783, Franchi Seeds is the oldest family run seed company in the...
7 generations still in the same family Franchi Sementi S.P.A., of Bergamo in northern Italy is a family company that was formed in 1783 and has grown to be one of the largest seed companies in Italy....
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