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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/

Agriculture, Horticulture, and Natural Diversity

Featured sites

	Abundant Life Seed Foundation (Port Townsend, Washington) Abundant Life is a non-profit organization which preserves plant diversity.
	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.
	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)

	Seeking Common Ground CSA (Rochester, New York)
	Community Supported Agriculture Page, UMass includes a detailed discussion of the principles of CSA.
	Catalpa Ridge Farm (Sussex County, New Jersey)
	Prairieland Community Supported Agriculture
	Community Supported Agriculture (Michigan)
	Community Supported Agriculture (Sproutwood Farm, Pennsylvania)

Organic Growing

	1000 Ways to Sustainable Farming [9/98]
	Troy Bogdan's Pure Earth Organic Farm includes a web ring of organic sites. [2/98]
	Organic Farmers Marketing Association [1/98]
	Organic Gardening by Samantha [1/98]
	Southern Oregon Organics on Genetic Integrity
	Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont
	Tom Clothier's Garden Walk and Talk
	Seattle Tilth Association
	Michigan Organic Food and Farm Alliance
	Midwest Organic Alliance
	"Organic Gardening Techniques" by R. Rothenberger and K. Hildahl
	Organic Gardening -- Natural Insecticides
	The MidNet Organic Pages
	The Claymont Agricultural Project
	Organic 2000 -- connecting consumers and organic growers in England

Wild ideas (wild, native, and perennial plants)

	Edible Landscaping Database by Ben Sharvy
	Easy Edible Landscaping (Organic Gardening Tip #81)
	Eden Foundation (promotes edible perennials)
	Agridiversity: Fully Edible Open-Pollinated Pastures for People
	Ascorbic Acid and Vitamin A Content of Edible Wild Plants of Ohio and Kentucky
	Wes Stone's "Forager Home Page"
	Plant notes from "The Survival Bible"
	Weeds of the Southern United States
	Pacific Northwest Native Wildlife Gardening

Education and Research

	Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center [1/98]
	Australian Correspondence Schools' horticulture directory.
	Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (Madison, Wisconsin)
	Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
	Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture
	SRISTI Projects include herbal insecticides, ecological indicators, and organic certification.
	Nature Farming International Research and Development Center
	Symposium on Sustainable Cropping (Abstracts of presentations)
	Dryland Cropping Systems at Washington State University.
	Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
	The Mulch-Based Agriculture Group at Cornell University hosts the Mulch-L electronic mailing list. They also offer a searchable bibliography

Organizations

	Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association [9/98]
	Michael Fields Agricultural Institute [9/98]
	American Community Gardening Association [9/98]
	Gardeners of the Golden Horseshoe [9/98]
	Winrock International [2/98]
	The Evergreen Trust [2/98]
	United Plant Savers
	Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) focuses on NAFTA and other trade agreements, indigenous property rights, and related issues. They also publish the Trade News and NAFTA and Inter-American Trade Monitor newsletters.
	Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA)
	National Agricultural Library AFSIC web page. AFSIC is Alternative Farming Systems Information Center. They have published bibliographies related to a wide variety of agricultural topics, including lists of periodicals and books in print.
	Red Interamericana de Agricultura y Democracia
	International Center for Tropical Agriculture

Clearinghouses, directories, and databases

	Havi Hoffman's Vegetable Gardening Directory
	Agrisurf, a searchable compendium of agricultural info.
	Not Just Cows (Bill Drew's guide to agriculture on the Internet)
	Envirolink sustainable agriculture library lists back issues of over two dozen periodicals related to plants, food, and agriculture.
	Agriculture Education links
	Internet Directory for Botany
	Root Propagation database search (U.C. Davis)
	Lawrence London's Guide at Sunsite
	Ethnobotany Resources on the Internet
	NewCROP (includes a database of crop plants)
	A Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Texas
	Florida Agricultural Information Retrieval System
	The National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS)
	National Wetlands Inventory, Ecology Section is a list of plant species available in wetlands.

Specific species

	Canoe Plants of Ancient Hawaii [1/98]
	Nonsense Botany 1877 [1/98]
	Traditional Native American Tobacco Seed Bank
	Ecological Herbalism - Replanting the Fields We Love
	Associations of People Interested in Herbs
	Medicinal Herb FAQ
	FireGirl's Chile Pepper Wonderland
	Dave Fischer's North American "Mushroom Basics"
	Wild Triga Intermediate Wheatgrass, a perennial grain.
	Rapeseed and Canola
	Kenaf Fact Sheet
	Sustainable Trees and Shrubs for Southern New England
	Multipurpose and Fruit Trees Commonly Used in Agroforestry
	Arbres fixateurs d'azote (Nitrogen-fixing trees)
	Ratville's Renewable Resources, featuring hemp
	Vetiver Network Front page

Events

SAREP's list of sustainable agriculture events.

Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable Farming Connection

Miscellany

	Biodynamic Agriculture is a brief introduction to biodynamics with contacts for further details.
	The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
	Common Name Index, Elk Mountain Nursery
	Xeriscape Gardening and Deer Resistant Plants in Austin
	Beyond flora describes native flora of the French Riviera.
	Plantas Medicinais
	Idaho Falls Community Garden
	Le jardin cybernatique
	Expériences de compostage
	The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens WWW Service
	Horticulture Guide (Nebraska Extension Service)
	Land Stewardship Project Home Page
	Newsletters Links (Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture)
	Which Weed? (Weed control in northern Tasmania)
	Practical pollination tips from Dave and Janice Green
	Wenatchee Washington Native Plant Society
	Native Plant Society of Oregon
	"Intelligent Irrigation"
	Arizona Native Plant Society
	National Wildflower Research Center
	Alternative Agriculture News, 1996
	Butterfly Gardening
	Global Entomology/Agriculture Research Server (Bees and Pollination)
	Debra Teachout-Teashon's Gallery and Garden Notes
	Ohio State University Extension's Cyber-Farm
	USDA's Biotechnology Permits page
	The Agrarian Society and The Agrarian Steward Newsletter
	National Academy Press agriculture reading room (requires frames) includes on-line versions of Lost Crops of the Incas and Lost Crops of Africa, volume 1.
	"Europe Ignores Subsistence Agriculture, Experts Say" by Gamini Seneviratne
	"Crop Leases, An Overview" (Illinois Cooperative Extension)
	"Corn and the Environment" (Ontario Corn Producers' Assn.)
	The Compost Resource Page
	The Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
	North American Rock Garden Society
	Native Gardening Program by the Mennonite Central Committee
	Sustainable Ag.: Case Study at Prairie Dock farm
	Propagation of Cyclamen
	Chez Marco's Plant Pictures
	Harvesting the Internet for gardening information