The new season’s planting will be happening soon. The garden will be hungry for new seeds the last week February / first week March. We’re going to order most of them from a very special small seed company called J.L. Hudson, and also get some additional seeds from a lovely big seed company called Seeds of Change. Seeds of Change are the people who also make organic pasta sauce and stuff, but originally they started out as a pioneering organic seed farm.
Clay and I had a good look through the seeds available at jlhudsonseeds.com and also at seedsofchange.com as these companies are owned by two couples who are my friends Sheri and David, and Howard and Nancy.
Sheri and David have lived in an old bus in the Santa Cruz mountains near Palo Alto in Northern California for the last thirty years. They have a profound knowledge of organic farming, heirlooms, the politics of food and also about local Californian growing techniques. Howard and Nancy are also totally rad and live in Northern California. Howard was Martin Luther King’s personal assistant and Nancy was on Ken Kesey’s bus. They have an amazing seed bank. Actually, I’d love to introduce these two couples to each other sometime. Maybe I’ll get to do this in the next few weeks. Hmmm…
Anyway, more importantly, Clay still has saved a lot of the following kinds of seeds from last year, either that he’s collected from our own garden’s plants going to seed, or from packets that are still here. So he’s made sure we have plenty of the following ready to go:
bell pepper
jalapeno peppers
carrots
corn (sweetcorn)
cilantro coriander
lettuce
onion
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