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Garden stuff I got that I really like and think you might as well

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The following links are to various garden related products that I've really been happy with.  I will put a little description with each as to why I think they're worth having. Books Mediterranean Vegetables: A Cook's Compendium of All the Vegetables from the World's Healthiest Cuisine There are so many traditionally consumed plants in the Mediterranean region and a good number of them will grow just fine here in the Pacific Northwest.  However, aside from the well known veggies, most of the others are hard to find detailed info about how they are traditionally eaten which makes it difficult to add those plants to our home yard to table menu.  This book gives lots of good ideas for how to actually use all those vegetables! Native American Food Plants: An Ethnobotanical Dictionary is an excellent reference book for all manner of food plants native to our continent.  While much of the valuable food knowledge of our nations first pe

Johann's Garden - Nursery & Farm

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Johann's Garden - Nursery & Farm is a locally grown, locally serving plant nursery located near Buckley, WA.  Specializing in edible plants, but also including a selection of ornamental plants which are too nice to ignore.  Focused on sustainability; avoiding single use plastics by using durable plastic grow trays which hold up to years of repeated use, re-using already existing plastic pots AND employing long lasting, but biodegradable pots.  Additionally, we mix our own soil using locally produced compost instead of mined peat. Please check out open hours as well as current plant availability and descriptions at  https://johannsgarden.square.site/