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Gardening Gifts
Edible Flowers Seed Collection with Gift Box
This 8-packet set of beautiful, edible, flowers will bring colorful cheer to your garden or edible landscape. And the culinary possibilities are endless!
Edible Landscaping: Now You Can Have Your Gorgeous Garden and Eat It Too!
Create gorgeous and delicious landscapes with planting suggestions, combinations, and design ideas from the vanguard of the edible landscaping movement.
Farm-Grown Comfrey, Arnica & Calendula Salve
Perfect for hard-working gardeners' hands. This soothing, healing herbal salve is made on the farm from farm-grown comfrey, arnica, and calendula.
Windowsill Kitchen Herb Growing Kit
A convenient, all-in-one kit that includes 5 galvanized pots, a leak-proof tray, organic seedstarting mix, and a set of 5 organic kitchen herb seeds.
Worm Factory Indoor Composter
I've had this model for years! Compost kitchen scraps indoors and harvest worm castings for the garden simply. Includes a variety of accessories to save money in the long run.
Growing & Using Herbs
Calendula 'Pacific Beauty' Seed Mix
Calendula is an edible flower with many medicinal uses. A favorite in the vegetable garden, it traps pests and attracts pollinators and beneficial insects.
Herb Drying Rack
Preserve your fresh herbs by air drying them on this attractive hanging rack in a cool, dry, and dark room. Indestructible, mine is about 10 years old.
Introductory Herbal Course
Start your herbalism journey at home with this self-paced course from Herbal Academy. Over 34 lessons, you will feel comfortable and excited about selecting herbs and making wellness-promoting preparations.
Medicinal Garden Seed Collection
This 9-packet set includes herbs well suited for making salves, tinctures, and other herbal preparations while attracting a variety of pollinators with beautiful blooms.
German Chamomile Seeds
Cute as a button flowers make an excellent herbal tea and a nutrient rich mulch for fruit tree guilds and food forests. Companion in the vegetable garden.
Growing Fruits & Vegetables
Heirloom Organic Seed Bank Collection
This 24-packet set is the survival stash of seeds to have on hand for food security. These tried-and-true heirloom varieties have been around for 50 years or longer.
Lifetime Hori Hori Knife
Makes digging, weeding, and planting a cinch. Mine is over 10 years old and looks like new. Go ahead and get this good quality garden knife that lasts forever.
Landscaping with Fruit
Great edible landscape design ideas. I love the 'Luscious Landscape Index', which rates fruit crops based on flavor, time investment, maintenance, difficulty, etc.
The Permaculture Orchard: Beyond Organic DVD
A biologist takes you on a tour of his organic orchard developed using permaculture design, in this feature-length film. Learn techniques for setting up your own system.
Biochar Blend
All-in-one amendment blend that includes biochar, worm castings, compost, and more. Light and porous, encourages aeration. Improves and nurtures soil biology.
Improving Soil Quality
Daikon Radish Cover Crop Seed
An edible cover crop for compacted or nutrient deficient soil and the no till garden. Creates lots of biomass and attracts worms. Leave these in the ground to decompose.
Stainless Steel Digging Fork
Important tool for loosening and aerating soil in the no till garden without destroying structure and soil life. Don't skip this annual step in repairing compacted soil.
Organic Fish & Seaweed Fertilizer
Adds vigor to the garden by providing nutrients and activating beneficial microbes. Bang for your buck: Spray on top of other soil amendments to activate them.
White Clover Perennial Seed
Sow under fruit trees, in forest gardens, and in garden paths. Fertilizer, living mulch, and pollinator attractor all in one. Pre-inoculated with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
Worm Castings Organic Fertilizer
Richest known natural fertilizer that attracts beneficial organisms and neutralizes pH. I make my own but always need more! Trustworthy source, OMRI listed.
Permaculture Gardening
Edible Forest Gardens - Volume 2
Learn how to design, establish, and maintain your own permaculture forest garden through case studies and lists of the best edible and useful plant species.
The Suburban Micro-Farm: Modern Solutions for Busy People
All about growing a stress-free garden using permaculture techniques. Learn how to deal with challenges such as small space, sloping land, poor soil, and shade.
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Highly recommended for beginners and professionals who want to learn how to create an edible backyard ecosystem. Build a productive garden with biodiversity in mind.
Online Permaculture Design Certification Course
Gain the skills and confidence to design, implement, and maintain a permaculture-designed home system.
Russian Comfrey Root Cuttings
Your #1 multipurpose permaculture plan for biomass production, attracting beneficial insects, and more. Grow this sterile-seed variety to prevent spreading.
