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June 11, 2009
We’ve been getting back positive feedback from our first foray’s into offering safe, secure (and free) seeds (thanks!)
When we visited Freedom Farmer S’s plot on Sunday we were thrilled to see his Freedom Seeds growing so well. The veggies were so beautiful that I had to snap photos of the patch of Ashworth Yellow Corn, Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage (which had beautiful heads) Supposedly I am going to get a few of those heads to make sauerkraut! Yep, off with their heads!
Here are some of the other customer reviews….
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Hi, I bought some seeds from you earlier this year, many of which are doing very well, thank you 
–Chris
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While this is an incomplete review not covering the tomato itself (yet) the seeds are doing quite well. I started 20 Valencia tomato seeds and ALL of them have germinated.
I had also bought tomato seeds from another heirloom seed company and only about half of them have germinated in the same amount of time. They are a different type of tomato, so Im not sure if that makes much difference.
I will come back for a follow up review after Ive eaten some of these Valencia tomatoes!
-DA
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Just wanted to thank the Dervaes family for their nice selection of seeds and placed another order. I do hope they add more heirloom tomato seeds to the website!
I had previously ordered some Valencia tomato seeds a month ago from FS and have 100% germination. Im impressed and proud to order again from you. Im not getting 100% from other OP/organic/heirloom companies seeds.
Im having a fun gardening season so far and thank Freedom Seeds for their selections. Cant wait to see the site grow!
–Dave
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I absolutely agree about the FG seeds. I planted some zucchini and the plants are taking over my yard, they are so healthy. I’ve already harvested 4 zucchinis! In contrast, I had bought a zucchini plant at a big box store, it’s a fourth the size and finally producing, well, one so far. And it was planted a couple of weeks before the seeds. I’m a believer!!
–Aliska
Have you posted photos of your Freedom Garden plot filled with Freedom Seeds? Care to share?
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Tags: freedom seeds, Garden, Seeds
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June 11, 2009
Some more incoming links from Sunday
We aren’t one to laud biodiesel as the answer to the fuel crisis (two wheels, two feet or four would suffice), we look at it as a band-aid solution. Once every one to two months Justin brews a 30 gallon batch (using recycled veggie oil from one of our restaurant clients) which lasts us quite awhile because we still conserve how many trips we take using the car. In fact we clock in less than 4,000 miles a year on our bioburban.
Farmer J & Farmer S chatting at the Freedom Gardens Swap N Meet when Justin is asked a question about biodiesel
FYI I am the voice heard off camera inform Justin that it’s a moving camera…. hehe
Here’s a little impromptu interview with Justin Dervaes, the “Biodiesel Man’s” Biodiesel Recipe
Also thank you to Motherearthsoup for encouraging your readers to support out outreach.
Don’t forget FreedomSeeds.org for safe, secure seeds grown by the people for the people.
BTW the book Justin is referring to is HOMEBREW BIODIESEL GUIDE
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June 11, 2009
We’ve had dismal grey downright gloomy weather for over week now and it’s starting to get on everyone’s nerves. Yeah, sorry could never really live in Seattle. I like to see that brilliant bright yellow thing in the sky once in awhile, of course if the grey skies brought rain I’d be more akin to not disparaging over the weather and welcome any decent precipitation.
The “doom gloom” we dubbed it is, not very ideal weather for all the summer crops - in fact it’s perfect weather for breeding mildew and blight. We’ve spotted a few problem spots already on the eggplant and some tomatoes. We’ve harvested a second batch of peppers and the first eggplants of the season; however with the cooler weather they are pathetically stunted. No matter for us we could care less how puny and weird they look - it’s food! A few tomatoes have “ripened” well, just enough to eat. A little less than ripe red but then again we’ve waited all year for fresh maters. Lots of little green tomatoes waiting for the sun to come out though.
Checking the forecast that’s not going to happen to perhaps sometime next week. So not only are the plants sun deprived the people are too and it’s getting to the point where we’ve had enough thank you very much.
So though it doesn’t feel summer the first crops of peppers, eggplant and tomatoes are here!
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June 10, 2009
Thanks for one of the Freedom Gardeners for bringing this frightening article to our attention.
Pretty soon vegetables could be at risk now that big M has stopped their meddling with rice, corn and soy — looks like swiss chard is threatened with contamination and cabbages are next!
BATTLE OVER BEETS
Organic seed producer Frank Morton has been warning people for years that genetically modified organisms pose a serious threat to the Willamette Valley’s vegetable seed industry.
Now he thinks his worst GMO nightmare may be coming true.
Roundup Ready sugarbeets — a patented variety engineered by Monsanto to tolerate the company’s widely used Roundup herbicide — have turned up in a soil mixture being sold to gardeners at a Corvallis landscaping supply business just a few miles from Morton’s fields.
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Tags: gmo, monsanto, Vegetables
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June 9, 2009
Check out this summer’s issue of The Herb Quarterly features a little piece (page 66) on our urban farming project. They also have a great article on using edible flowers!
A few years after Farmer D smothered the lawn and planted a garden out front, we sold our first edible flower back in 1994 to a local tea shop. Since then we have been providing not only edible flowers but herbs and heirloom vegetables and greens to local clients.
So not only does our little plot of land provide us with 99% of our produce but a viable income to boot.
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Tags: Garden, summer, the herb quarterly
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