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Early crops

By Joshuah | Published: March 30, 2009
Last fall we built a cold frame – nothing fancy, just some plastic and stakes – and put it over parts of our then empty garden beds, sowed a few test crops, and sat back and waited.  Now that March is almost over, we were able to harvest a good amount of spinach that lay [...]
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Sticker Shock Moves from the Oil Tanker to the Seed Catalog

By Joshuah | Published: December 7, 2008
The headline above and the paragraphs below are from the most recent edition of Fedco’s seed catalog.  As we have been suspecting (and Fedco confirms) seeds prices have risen dramatically. Oct. 10, 2008: We are in the midst of the deluge now: a financial hurricane the likes of which I never would have imagined. Commodity price [...]
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