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Find your local plant or seed exchange

Since humans began gathering seeds from forest plants and planting them, we’ve also been exchanging those seeds with each other as a form of trade, barter, or food source sharing.  Seed and plant sharing is still a common practice among gardeners and one of the most cost-effective ways to increase the number of plants and foods [...]

Time to start dreaming of poppies

Want big plants fast? This kind of thinking is usually out of reach for dirt cheap gardeners and left to those who can buy mature shrubs and perennials and “install” them into heavily amended soil.   But there are a few annuals that can fulfill this desire for very little cost and breadseed poppies are one [...]