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Featured sites
 | Abundant Life Seed
Foundation (Port Townsend, Washington)
Abundant Life is a non-profit organization which preserves plant diversity.
| The Bio-Dynamic Farming and
Gardening Association hosts an interesting electronic mailing list on
biodynamic farming and gardening.
| Database of 7000
Useful Plants, from Plants
for a Future (Cornwall, England) .
One of CSF's long term aims is to encourage the discussion regional plant
differences, including locally adapted cultivated varieties. In the
meantime, this resource is an excellent place to start.
| Sustainable
Practices for Vegetable Production in the South is a book, available
on-line in full, by Dr. Mary Peet of North Carolina State University.
| Ecology
Action has a description of the "biointensive" food-raising
method. They are well known for John Jeavons' How to Grow More
Vegetables..., currently in its fifth edition. The book has a
bibliography which far exceeds the scope of the web pages listed here, for
people seeking to learn more about sustainable growing.
| Flora Communications hosts electronic
mailing lists on community forestry and environmental arts. (Baltimore,
Maryland)
| City Farmer's Urban Agriculture Notes
covers initiatives to promote food security and urban efforts (like
community gardening) around the world.
| GardenWeb maintains a large number
of on-line garden forums, which work like UseNet news groups. Some are in
French, while others are specific to gardening in the south Pacific, for
example.
| "A Modern
Herbal" by Mrs. M. Grieve (1931) lists medicinal and other uses of
over 800 plant varieties.
| The Future is Abundant
(1982) is a resource guide for sustainable growing in the Pacific northwest.
| USDA Hardiness Zones
color map of the U.S.
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Articles, Reviews, and Bibliographies
| Insect Pollination of Cultivated
Crop Plants
| Arid Region Farming
Primer [ECHO]
| "Ancient Hawaii: A
Model of Sustainable Agriculture, by Robert H. Faust.
| Container
Farming: Organic Food Production in Slums of Mexico City, by Rodrigo A.
Medellín Erdmann. [1/98]
(Table
of Contents for this issue of GATE)
| "A
Matter of Survival: How Agricultural Biodiversity can be
Maintained" by Nelson Alvarez
| Issue no.
1, 2,
3 or 4
of Craig Dremann's "Native Grass Gossip"
| "Seeds
of the Future" by Christina Waters.
| Vegetable
Bytes, a Vegetable and Row Crop Newsletter (Sutter and Yuba counties,
California)
| "The
Gospel According to Wes Jackson"
| "Rural
Philosophy for Education: Wendell Berry's Tradition," by Paul
Theobald
| Green & Growing Environmental
Education Project has published From the Ground up, a teachers'
guide to agriculture, food, and sustainable development.
| "An
Outlaw Grain Comes Back" (Amaranth) by Diane Sussman
| "Solving the
Slurry Problem" by John Seymour
| Cover
Crop Biology: A Minireview, part 1. by Robert L. Bugg
| "Farm as Form: Wendell
Berry's Sabbaths" by Jeffery Alan Triggs
| The Excrement Poem, by
Maxine Kumin
| "Three
Agricultural Fallacies" by Wendell Berry
| "Sustainable
Farming Systems in Colombia"
| Biomass
Fuel from Woody Crops for Electric Power Generation by Robert D. Perlack,
et al.
| Choix
des espèces adaptées au milieu urbain
| "Ascorbic
Acid and Vitamin A Content of Edible Wild Plants of Ohio and Kentucky" by
Thomas M. Zennie and C. Dwayne Ogzewalla
| Economic
Botany (Edible, Herbal, Medicinal and Useful Plants; Ethnobotany) [a
bibliography]
| The Practical Farmer:
Quarterly Newsletter of Practical Farmers of Iowa [Use your mail address
as the password.]
| Sustainable
Agriculture and Permaculture bibliography
| SUSAG
Abstracts
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