From This: 
In my childhood, the arrival of The Big Sears catalog was a significant and holy day for me. As a young boy I can remember "scrutinizing" the women's underwear and bra photos in my dog-eared copy of the Sears catalog. "The Catalog" weighed in at roughly 3 pounds. You know the one, right guys? What an illicitic wealth of information/ inspiration those glossy pages held! I spent untold hours ogling those curvey beige and skin-toned images...
To This:
In the intervening 25 years, catalogs continued to play an important role in my life. As a designer and builder, The Catalog was supplanted by Interior Design, Garret Wade, Dwell and Fine Homebuilding. A few years ago I started The Urban Garden Project, "re-purposing" a barren industrial lot adjoining my woodworking studio into an organic garden. As a result of this project, "The Seeds Of Change" organic seed catalog has recently achieved prominence in my ever-growing stack of reference catalogs. Magazines such as Mother Earth News and Permaculture are continuosly "cropping up" around my home. I have posted margin links to similar webmags here on vergelimbo.com as well as from my technology-based webpage: greengearonline.com
Seeds Of Change 2009 Catalog
The 2009 catalog [pictured above] is available for free, either in a downloadable pdf format or home delivered in it's glossy 108 page glory. The catalog is filled with beautiful photographs of countless vegetables-many of which I guarantee you have never seen or heard of. It features a wide range of heirloom vegetable seeds and informative articles on organic gardening, tools and techniques. Buying seeds online is easy, safe and very affordable. Peruse the magazine and pick a vegetable you have never tasted and plant some this spring. Last year I planted Dragon Carrots, Hopi Squash, Dinosaur Kale and the Sputnik-like: Kohlrabi.
What is your favorite catalog or freaky vegetable?
Leave you comments or any suggestions below...
- Green Idea 1 : ' Find your nearest Farmer's Market and go there this weekend with friends...
- Green Idea 2 : ' Swap your old incandescent bulbs for CFLs when they burn out and start saving $$$
- Green Idea 3 : ' Try using your bike this weekend instead of your car...
- Green Idea 4 : ' This Spring why not plant a small kitchen garden of tomatoes and peppers on your balcony or patio?
- Green Idea 5 : ' What are you waiting for? Make the change today!
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SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
The basic objectives of sustainability are to reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, minimize waste, and create healthy, productive environments.
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URBAN GARDENING
You can grow your own food whether you live on a rural farm or in a tiny urban apartment. Urban gardening is all about using space wisely to regain a closer connection with your food and beautify your home or neighborhood.
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RENEWABLE ENERGY
Explore energy resources, such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, biomass, geothermal, ocean thermal, and wave power, that replenish themselves within a short period.
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LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS
Locating the Farmers' Market nearest to you is now only a few clicks away. Localharvest.org is a useful and straight-forward site designed to faciliate your quest.
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3 comments:
So this is what you do with your spare time! Hilarious,provocative, and truly organic stuff here.
I love the evolution of your objectification from wee lad to dirty old gardener.
Did you ever read "the botany of desire"? I recommend it
Yeah, Martin you are onto me! Do you remember those catalogs? I like your observation of my evolution of desire...I'm not sure whether most readers will get that, and as for "Botany of desire", I still haven't read that but Arto recommended it to me years back...I have read The omnivore's dilemma, and loved it,
take care
Phil
Doood...
Me, too.
Im just as much of a sinner as you.
Exactly Y we must repent...
which Im doing soon at Saint John's
Catholic choirch in Lawrence, KS.
Follow us to reach Seventh-Heaven.
God bless your indelible soul.
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