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A few memories from my summer as a farm apprentice

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A few memories from my summer as a farm apprentice

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The 9 french draft horse breeds

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Another book 📚 to add to the collection… I love the amazing shapes, colours and textures seeds come in…

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Plant of the Day Tuesday 6 February 2018

A variety of winter salad leaves being grown under the protection of the glasshouse of the World Garden at Royal Horticultural Society Hyde Hall, Essex, UK. This made me want to go home and plant some seeds for home grown, crunchy salad!

Jill Raggett

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Colorful Spider Embroideries by Adam Pritchett

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On our @seedkeeping Instagram or on our Truelove Seeds Facebook pages, tag your food justice hero on this post, and each of you could be randomly selected to win two Truelove Seed packets of your choice! 

Central to our seed keeping work is supporting urban and rural farms in deepening their food justice and food sovereignty work trough producing culturally important seeds for their communities and beyond. This photo (by VietLead at Resilient Roots Farm in #Camden, NJ) shows a tomato named after singer, actor, and outspoken civil rights advocate Paul Robeson. He performed and speakers out against racism, in support of the labor movement, and for peace. This variety was grown by the amazing food justice visionaries at Urban Tree Connection, just a couple miles from the historic Paul Robeson House where he spent his final years in West Philadelphia. As with all our varieties, half of each sale goes back to the amazing farmers. On top of all this, it’s a beautiful, smokey, and delicious tomato. While the Paul Robeson Tomato was bred in Moscow, it is featured in our African Diaspora Collection for its role in representing and teaching an important aspect of Black History in America. 

#paulrobeson #paulrobesontomato #blackhistorymonth #urbantreeconnection #seedsovereignty #seedkeeping #foodjustice #foodsovereignty #civilrights 

(Second and third photos by Urban Tree Connection. To choose a winner, I’ll use a random number generator based on the order you responded. Visit us at www.trueloveseeds.com)

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A small and gorgeous corner of Lisa Bloodnick’s bean collection, after our Seed Keeping talk at Simsbury Public Library, sponsored by the Hartford Area Bionutrient Food Association. Simsbury is just an hour from where I grew up, so my parents and their partners came, as well as some friends in the area who came bearing seeds they’d generously and lovingly grown out from my collection. The next two artsy photos were taken by my dad. Keep scrolling to see the seed library upstairs; the amazing dinner with farmers and gardeners the night before at host Kris McCue’s House (she also took this photo); and finally more of Lisa’s amazing bean collection. So grateful to spend time with and teach again with Lisa who has been running a beautiful horse-powered farm near Binghamton, NY for the past 25 years. #bionutrientfoodassociation #lisabloodnick #simsburypubliclibrary #simsburyseedlibrary #seedlibrary #seedsaving #seedstories #seedkeeping #beanseeds #beancollector

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DANNY’S VEGETABLE GARDEN

The garden is bearing cucumber, lettuce, basil and green and yellow courgettes. The tomatoes are taking forever to ripen. The rain has well and truly gone now and we are into the big dry. One tank is empty and the other is getting low so we will be switching to town water soon.

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First project of 2018 complete! Made this cozy sweater of all scrap yarn! 🙌🏻 Instagram: @lunarknitsbylori

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Plash

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The gangs all here

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Pretty, yes? Here’s an example of the Glass Gem corn I grew this year. I used pink kernels from a cob I grew last year. Voila! Lustrous corn with pink and pearly hues.

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