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Home Grown Nutrition specializes in helping you create personalized eating and healthy living goals that incorporate local and seasonal foods. Her unique approach combines nutrition counseling with cooking instruction to help you learn how to find, prepare and even grow healthy seasonal foods that fit your lifestyle.
Seattle Tilth (Garden Hotline) - Seattle Tilth provides Urban Garden Education; workshops, a children’s garden-program, and now 3 plant sales throughout the year, which Cascadian Edible Landscapes attends.
WSU Master Gardeners.
Garden-Raised Bounty-Olympia, WA is a grassroots non-profit organization dedicated to nourishing a strong community by empowering people and growing good food in Thurston & Mason counties in Washington State.
Foodlink Seattle was founded to link sources of fresh produce with local food banks. Associated with Pike Place Market Foundation, Foodlink has been operating every summer for over 14 years. In our 2007 season, nearly 50,000 pound of food was donated to local food banks providing thousands of Seattle residents with good, nutritious, life-giving food.
DigginFood--a community table that serves up gardening and cooking inspiration for people who like real food.
National Center for Home Food Preservation is your source for current research-based recommendations for most methods of home food preservation.
Fat of the Land Blog Adventures of a (mostly) NW based forager, who finds edible bounties everywhere.
Conscious Choice Magazine Magazine and website aimed at covering natural health, food, personal growth, fitness/yoga, spirituality, environment, social good, sustainable business, green living and much more.
Community Alliance for Global Justice –Food Justice Project currently developing an overarching analysis for CAGJ of the global food economy, as well as strategizing about what our outcomes should be for this organizing. Building a coherent analysis is the first step in providing the base for building a campaign, or multiple campaigns, that remain committed to the goal of strengthening local economies everywhere.
Learn about Medicinal Herbs at this site.
City of Seattle’s Neighborhood Matching Fund Grants for community groups to do neighborhood improvements, which could include EDIBLE LANDSCAPING!
Uprising Seeds is a local (Bellingham, WA) offers organic heirloom and open pollinated seeds. (360) 201-0468
Books:Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades by Steve Solomon, Food Not Lawns by Heather Coburn Flores, How to Grow More Vegetables on Less Land by John Jeavons, Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan, You can Farm by Joel Salatin
Seattle; Village Harvest-Community Fruit Harvest Projects:
Drip Works: Irrigation
Dig the Dirt a (NW run) social gardening site with one of the most user friendly garden databases in the world.
PLANT SUGGESTIONS:
These are Perrenials-Plant once
Fruit Trees: Apples, (Japanese and European) Pears, Plums, Cherries, Hardy and Fuzzy Kiwi (vines), Peaches,
(with luck), several nut varieties. See raintreenusery.com for larger list.
Shrubs: Also, Elderberries, Blueberries, Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, as well as many
Edible Natives: salmon berries, huckleberries, wintergreen, etc–>See Burntridge Nursery for complete list
These are Annual Crops (plant yearly)
that like it warmer: Tomatoes, Basil, Eggplant, Peppers, Amaranth (a very cool edible flower), Celery, and beans, corn, and the Cucurbits Family: Cucumbers, Summer Squash (includes Zuchinni), Winter Squash like Delicata, Acorn, and Pumpkins.
Cold Weather Lovers:
Brassicas: Many varieties of Broccoli, Cauliflower, Kales, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Kohlrabi
Greens: Head and Loose-LeafLettuce, Spinach, Swiss chard, Arugula, Mustard, Mache (aka Corn Salad), Belgian Endive
Roots: Beets, Carrots, Radishes, Rutabagas, Turnips, Parsnips, and Celeriac (try it!)
Potatoes
Alliums:Garlic,Shallots, Onions, Scallions, Chives
Herbs: Thymes, Rosemary, Mints, Sages, Chives, Marjoram, Fennel, Lavender, Angelica, Chamomile, Echinacea angustifolia
Crops with Very High Aesthetic (if you ask me) Value: Artichoke (P), Asparagus (P), Peas, Jasmine, Honeysuckle, blueberries.
Edible Flowers: Borage, Nasturtium, Sunflower, Honeysuckle, lavender, and many many more
