UK Veg Gardeners
Gillian Carson of My Tiny Plot just created a new gardening discussion forum!
In particular she’s networked with many of the top UK gardening blogs, meaning in one place you can now rub shoulders with lots of your favorite garden bloggers — including me!
Here at Bifurcated Carrots you can read what I write, and leave comments, but if you actually want to chat with me or other readers this wasn’t really possible until now. Now, if you go to UK Veg Gardeners, you can post your own material, and start your own discussions. I have wanted to set something up like this for a while now, but this takes a lot of time, so I’m really happy Gill has done it for me.
I host the Heritage Fruit and Veg group, and my picture looks like the one above at the top of the badge. When you join, be sure to say hi. Any reader of this blog interested in fruit and vegetable gardening in the UK is welcome!
Washington State Meetup?
Steph and I will be visiting some friends and relatives in Washington State, in the areas of Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver August 20-30th.
Anyone in those areas interested in getting together and meeting one another?
Depending who’s interested, and where you are, I’ll try to arrange a date or dates and times.
Vegetable Vagabond
In a comment recently on a different blog Kate reminded me she has a new blog too, sort of… Her archives go back to 2007, and she told me about it then, so it’s not that new and I’m a bit late here in letting everyone know.
Kate is formally of Hills and Plains Seedsavers, which is still around and she posts there from time to time too.
I met Kate in person during the Oxford UK meeting in 2008, when she visited from Australia. Most recent posts in her new blog have been about her new home in Tasmania, a large island off the south coast of mainland Australia.
I need to find a solution to my Blogroll. I have too many people to link to, not enough space on the front of this blog, and I haven’t yet found a good way or the time to organize it yet.
In the meantime, if you would like me to link to you and let others know about you, please send me an email! It’s not my intention to leave anyone out, and I think people who read this blog would like to know who you are. I think others will tell you, when I post about blogs they tend to get a lot of visitors! It’s a good way to get Google to recognize you too.
Gaia’s Hope
Mary, formally of CityGarden, has a new blog name and URL. She’s now Gaia’s Hope. Located in Thessaloniki, Greece with a plot outside of the city where she grows most things. If you have any links to her old blog, be sure to update them. If you don’t know her, be sure to stop by!
Brown Envelope Seeds
I recently came across this interview with Madeline McKeever of Brown Envelope Seeds. And of course be sure to have a look at their blog.
Even though I’ve been in touch with Madeline off and on for a few years now, I learned quite a few things from this interview. I think it’s really great she was able to not only take on the task of promoting heritage seeds, but turn it into a functioning independent seed company.
Independent European seed companies are becoming rare these days, especially those that grow all or a portion of their own seeds. With the uncertain future ahead for Kokopelli Seeds, Brown Envelope Seeds looks set to become one of the most important seed companies for the home gardener in Europe.
Especially if you’re in Ireland, but also anywhere within travelling distance, consider coming to one of their open days and seed swaps. Participants are welcome to camp on their farm.
