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Pennsylvania Coops (near the Maryland Border)
www.Tog.coop
HCR 71 Box 168-B, Hustontown, PA, 17229
Phone: 814-448-2173 Fax: 814-448-2333 Email:
info@tog.coop
Maryland Coops
Bethesda Co-op
6500 Seven Locks Road
Cabin John, Maryland 20818
Phone: 301-320-2531
E-mail: bethesdacoop@erols.com
http://members.tripod.com/~co_op
Maryland Food Co-op
B-0203 Student Union Building-Maryland U
College Park, Maryland 20742
Phone: 301-314-8089
Common Market Co-op
5813 Buckeystown Pike
Frederick, Maryland 21704
Phone: 301-663-3416
E-mail: host@commonmarket.com
http:/www.commonmarket.com
Greenbelt Consumer Cooperative
121 Centerway
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
Phone: 301-474-0522
E-mail: RADCOOP@AOL.COM
Nature's Exchange Co-op
1548 Perryman Rd.
Havre de Grac, Maryland 21078
Glut Food Co-op
4005 34th St.
Mt. Rainier, Maryland 20712
Phone: 301-779-1978 www.glut.org Takoma Park Silver Spring Cooperative
201 Ethan Allen Aven
Takoma Park, Maryland 20912
Phone: 301-891-2667
http://tpss.org
Westminster Consumers Coop
28 Westminster Shopping Center
Westminster, Maryland 21157
Phone: 410-848-3200
Other Coops....a great index....
Index of Coops: http://csf.colorado.edu/co-op/
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Featured sites
 | Abundant Life Seed
Foundation (Port Townsend, Washington)
Abundant Life is a non-profit organization which preserves plant diversity.
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| The Bio-Dynamic Farming and
Gardening Association hosts an interesting electronic mailing list on
biodynamic farming and gardening. |
| Database of 7000
Useful Plants, from Plants
for a Future (Cornwall, England) .
One of CSF's long term aims is to encourage the discussion regional plant
differences, including locally adapted cultivated varieties. In the
meantime, this resource is an excellent place to start. |
| Sustainable
Practices for Vegetable Production in the South is a book, available
on-line in full, by Dr. Mary Peet of North Carolina State University. |
| Ecology
Action has a description of the "biointensive" food-raising
method. They are well known for John Jeavons' How to Grow More
Vegetables..., currently in its fifth edition. The book has a
bibliography which far exceeds the scope of the web pages listed here, for
people seeking to learn more about sustainable growing. |
| Flora Communications hosts electronic
mailing lists on community forestry and environmental arts. (Baltimore,
Maryland) |
| City Farmer's Urban Agriculture Notes
covers initiatives to promote food security and urban efforts (like
community gardening) around the world. |
| GardenWeb maintains a large number
of on-line garden forums, which work like UseNet news groups. Some are in
French, while others are specific to gardening in the south Pacific, for
example. |
| "A Modern
Herbal" by Mrs. M. Grieve (1931) lists medicinal and other uses of
over 800 plant varieties. |
| The Future is Abundant
(1982) is a resource guide for sustainable growing in the Pacific northwest.
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| USDA Hardiness Zones
color map of the U.S. |
Articles, Reviews, and Bibliographies
| Insect Pollination of Cultivated
Crop Plants |
| Arid Region Farming
Primer [ECHO] |
| "Ancient Hawaii: A
Model of Sustainable Agriculture, by Robert H. Faust. |
| Container
Farming: Organic Food Production in Slums of Mexico City, by Rodrigo A.
Medellín Erdmann. [1/98]
(Table
of Contents for this issue of GATE) |
| "A
Matter of Survival: How Agricultural Biodiversity can be
Maintained" by Nelson Alvarez |
| Issue no.
1, 2,
3 or 4
of Craig Dremann's "Native Grass Gossip" |
| "Seeds
of the Future" by Christina Waters. |
| Vegetable
Bytes, a Vegetable and Row Crop Newsletter (Sutter and Yuba counties,
California) |
| "The
Gospel According to Wes Jackson" |
| "Rural
Philosophy for Education: Wendell Berry's Tradition," by Paul
Theobald |
| Green & Growing Environmental
Education Project has published From the Ground up, a teachers'
guide to agriculture, food, and sustainable development. |
| "An
Outlaw Grain Comes Back" (Amaranth) by Diane Sussman |
| "Solving the
Slurry Problem" by John Seymour |
| Cover
Crop Biology: A Minireview, part 1. by Robert L. Bugg |
| "Farm as Form: Wendell
Berry's Sabbaths" by Jeffery Alan Triggs |
| The Excrement Poem, by
Maxine Kumin |
| "Three
Agricultural Fallacies" by Wendell Berry |
| "Sustainable
Farming Systems in Colombia" |
| Biomass
Fuel from Woody Crops for Electric Power Generation by Robert D. Perlack,
et al. |
| Choix
des espèces adaptées au milieu urbain |
| "Ascorbic
Acid and Vitamin A Content of Edible Wild Plants of Ohio and Kentucky" by
Thomas M. Zennie and C. Dwayne Ogzewalla |
| Economic
Botany (Edible, Herbal, Medicinal and Useful Plants; Ethnobotany) [a
bibliography] |
| The Practical Farmer:
Quarterly Newsletter of Practical Farmers of Iowa [Use your mail address
as the password.] |
| Sustainable
Agriculture and Permaculture bibliography |
| SUSAG
Abstracts |
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
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